ECON 2060

Thomas is a great lecturer, but the tests are brutal -- massive amounts of memorization and lots of reading. Not quite the 200-level class I was expecting, but worthwhile, nonetheless. Probably the fastest 50 minutes of lecture in any class I've taken -- maybe because I'm writing so fast. ;)

Those were always the longest 50 minutes of my life, even when I was writing fast. I hated expounding on minutiae, like, "and in this year the growth rate was 4% but the following year it was 4.2%, etc." and I hate analyzing the analysis of someone's analysis of something, which is what it was all about.

Great lecturer but the midterms are very challenging.

Great professor, but the textbook is terrible and somewhat boring. The textbook material is very basic and doesn't coincide with the lectures very often. It doesn't contribute much to the lectures. Test questions, however, are very nit-picky so you have to have read the material in order to ID things correctly.

This class was pretty hard.

Great Professor. There is so much material, but you learn so much too.

MT has a British accent, which makes everything he says more interesting. The reading can be dry, but for the subject material he does a great job making it interesting and accessible.

He is a great lecturer, but exams are hard. There might be no curve. If you are looking for A's, DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS

The class is very interesting that the professor tries hard to make the subject alive, even though it's economic history~ It is very hard to get an A in the class since the average of every tests is only a B or B-. Reading is essential and exams are hard.

If you're really interested in the subject, then you will really like this class, if not you will probably be really bored. His tests are all essay, and he is a pretty reasonable grader. Do the reading from the course packet because many of the discussion questions reference it explicitly. Not my favorite class, but not too bad either.