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Teaching
Teaching
At Middlebury College I teach a senior seminar on Long-run Growth, Living Standards, and Sustainability, as well as Introductory Macroeconomics. Syllabus and course notes are available below.
Introductory Macroeconomics
Course Notes
Long-run Growth, Living Standards, and Sustainability (Seminar-Style)
Course Readings (coming soon)
Career & Student Resources
Career & Student Resources
Photo Credit: NASA (restored by Toby Ord)
Careers
Careers
Career choice greatly influences the trajectories of our lives. Obviously. But despite their importance, comparatively little time is spent researching and systematically planning/ranking among alternatives. I have found the resources at 80000 Hours (especially their new book of the same name) to be helpful in this task and well-received by students.
This site is primarily aimed at individuals who want to have a positive impact on the world. But even without that objective, it is valuable. It is the best resource I know of that synthesizes the research on what qualities facilitate long-term career and life satisfaction.
As part of a related project, I contributed a post about how I became an economics professor and what my day-to-day life is like. "Writing about my job" posts for other careers are collected here.
Other Recommendations for Students
Other Recommendations for Students
Find Mentors
Having wise folks willing to provide you guidance is invaluable. People generally like serving this role; reach out to people that you find impressive!
Thank you to some particularly influential professors in my life: Mike Leeds, Doug Webber, Oli Coibion, Dean Spears, Saroj Bhattarai, Mike Geruso and others
Books I frequently recommend (in no particular order)
Deep Work by Cal Newport
The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer & Doing Good Better by Will MacAskill
Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie
Animal Liberation (Now) by Peter Singer & Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit (Warning: dense philosophy)
When I believed [that personal identity is what matters], I seemed imprisoned in myself. My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air. There is still a difference between my life and the lives of other people. But the difference is less. Other people are closer. I am less concerned about the rest of my own life, and more concerned about the lives of others. --Reasons and Persons, Derek Parfit (pulled from this Vox piece on Parfit)
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Mr. Money Mustache (a blog, but worth including)
The Little Book of Research Writing by Varanya Chaubey
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