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ECON1010: why does taking the maths out make the marking harder?

Students pick this course expecting the version of economics they were warned about, the one built on algebra and calculus, and the course description tells them the opposite.

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Economics11 min read

ECON1102: why does knowing about the economy make macroeconomics harder?

Almost every student arrives at ECON1102 Macroeconomics 1, a 6 unit of credit course at UNSW Business School, already holding views about inflation, interest rates and unemployment, because those things have been in the news for their…

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ECON3440: what happens when the yardstick itself is disputed?

Most third-year economics courses ask you to apply a model correctly. Competition policy asks something harder, because before you can say whether a merger or a pricing practice was harmful, you have to say what "harmful" means, and the…

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ECO349 Money, Banking and Financial Markets: read the prerequisite list before you read anything else

Three prerequisite streams gate this University of Toronto course. Intermediate microeconomics, intermediate macroeconomics, and a full year of statistics or its equivalent. Courses with one prerequisite assume you remember a subject.

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Economics12 min read

ECON3700: pricing what has no market, and defending the number

Environmental economics exists to put numbers on things that were never bought or sold. The numbers are contested, and you will be marked on saying so.

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Economics12 min read

ECON1001: what if the foundational concept has no agreed answer?

Introductory microeconomics looks like a subject with right answers. You solve for equilibrium, you compute elasticity, the number is correct or it is not.

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ECON1101: what does Microeconomics 1 actually test?

Microeconomics 1 at UNSW sits early in a business or economics degree and functions as a gate: other courses assume it, so a weak result does not stay contained within one term. What makes it awkward is that the course looks familiar.

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Economics10 min read

ECON1310 Introductory Statistics: the rule that can fail you anyway

Most courses add your marks and tell you whether the total clears fifty. This one does not, or at least one published offering does not.

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Economics11 min read

ECON2050: how do you prepare for a unit marked mostly under time pressure?

Students search this code expecting an assignment guide, and the first useful thing to say is that Money and Finance at Macquarie has historically put most of its weight on a test and a final exam rather than on written coursework.

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Economics12 min read

How to approach the ECON1003 Financial Institutions assignment?

ECON1003 Financial Institutions and Markets rewards students who explain why a financial institution or market behaves as it does, not those who describe what it is. Most students who struggle with this course are not short on effort.

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Economics13 min read

How to approach the ECON1596 Digital Economy assignment?

ECON1596 (and its companion code ECON1597) Business Challenges in the Digital Economy rewards students who use economic reasoning to explain why digital markets behave differently, not those who list technologies.

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Economics13 min read

ECON1269 assignment: how to approach Business in a Globalised Economy?

ECON1269 Business in the Globalised Economy rewards students who use trade theory and data to argue a policy, not those who just describe globalisation.

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ECON90015 assignment: how to approach Managerial Economics at Monash?

ECON90015 Managerial Economics at Monash asks you to use economic models to justify a real decision, the rubric rewards analysis, not description.

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