I was in Building E51 (Tang Center) to attend the first class of the week long Economics Review series that was organized exclusively for incoming TPP students who have little or no background in Microeconomics. As I entered the building, I was greeted by a congregation of incoming MBA students who were socializing and having lunch at the building's main lobby. The MBA class of 2007 had started their first day of student orientation earlier today. A far cry from last week, the whole East Campus is looking busy once again with new and returning students.

This year's TPP Economics Review sessions are being taught by Carlos Osorio, a current ESD PhD student. We went through the very basics of Economics like supply/demand and elasticity - nothing groundbreaking but refreshing nonetheless. The most fascinating piece of information is Carlos's insights to the availability of Microeconomics courses at MIT and Harvard (via Cross Registration) that TPP students can choose to take. Here's an outline of the Microeconomic courses listed in ascending difficulty:

Course No.	Course Name	School	Level	Note
API-101	Markets and Market Failure	Harvard KSG	Master (Public Policy)	More qualitative
15.010/011	Economic Analysis for Business Decisions	MIT Sloan	Master and MBA	More qualitative
API-102	Economic Analysis of Public Policy	Harvard KSG	Master (Public Policy)
API-111/112	Advanced Microeconomic Analysis I and II	Harvard KSG	Master (International Development)
14.121, 14.122, 14.123, 14.124	Microeconomic Theory I thru' IV	MIT Economics Dept.	PhD (Economics and Management)	Very few numbers, mostly symbolic equations
EC2010a/b	Microeconomic Theory	Harvard	PhD (Economics)	Very few numbers, mostly symbolic equations

8/22/2005 6:30:56 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

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