Sentences with phrase «economics class lecture»

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Guest lecturing in a packed Sanders Theatre this fall, Fryer gave students in an economics class an intellectual tour of the dire nature of the problem, and of his efforts to build a scaffold of evidence - based research to try to help fix it.

The story ranges from physics to chemistry, biology, geology, fluid mechanics, and quantum mechanics, to economics and social sciences.The class will consider evidence from the distant past and projections into the distant future, keeping the human time scale of the next several centuries as the bottom line.The lectures follow a textbook, «Global Warming, Understanding the Forecast,» written for the course.

The one concept that all students, even those sleeping in the back of the lecture hall, learn from an introductory economics class is that prices matter... As prices increase, the quantity consumed goes down.