Week 1: Introduction, Rational Preferences
Week 2: Rational Preferences
- Sep 2
- Lecture Cancelled - Labor Day
- Sep 4
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Sep 6
- Problem Set 1
Week 3: Expected Utility Theory
- Sep 9
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Sep 11
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Sep 13
- Problem Set 2
Week 4: Independence Axiom
- Sep 16
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Sep 18
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Sep 20
- Problem Set 3
Week 5: Allais, Ellsberg, and Evaluating Rational Choice Axioms
- Sep 23
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Sep 25
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Sep 27
- Problem Set 4
Week 6: Decision Problems and Newcomb's Paradox
- Sep 30
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Oct 2
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Oct 4
- Problem Set 5
Week 7: Midterm Exam, Introduction to Game Theory
- Oct 7
- Midterm Exam
- Oct 9
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Oct 11
- Online Portion of the Exam
Week 8: Introduction to Game Theory
- Oct 14
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Oct 16
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Oct 18
- Problem Set 6
Week 9: Important Games; Introduction to Voting
- Oct 21
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Oct 23
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Oct 25
- Problem Set 7
Week 10: Voting Methods, Condorcet Winners
- Oct 28
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Oct 30
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Nov 1
- Problem Set 8
Week 11: Condorcet Consistent Methods, Justifying Majority Rule
- Nov 4
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Nov 6
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Nov 8
- Problem Set 9
Week 12: Condorcet Jury Theorem, Judgement Aggregation Paradoxes, Voting Paradoxes
- Nov 11
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Nov 13
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Nov 15
- Problem Set 10
Week 13: Arrow's Theorem
- Nov 18
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Nov 20
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Nov 22
- Problem Set 11
Week 14: Evaluative Voting
- Nov 25
- Class Canceled - Power Outage
- Nov 27
- No Class - Thanksgiving Break
- Dec 1
- Problem Set Extra Credit
Week 16: Aggregating Utilities II
- Dec 9
- Lecture (TWS 1310): slides
- Dec 11
- Problem Set 12