The Adventures of Andrew Maurer

Picture of the whiteboard after Honours Microeconomics I today. The professor covered a lot of material. (Game theory, Monty Hall problem, transitivity, cognitive dissonance, behavioral economics in relation to reducing complex lotteries, and a whole wad of interesting economic experiments)

Woodward lecture today. It was entitled “Global Wage Inequality and the International Flow of Migrants”. I found it interesting as it was in large part about brain drain, that is, students receiving higher education in their home country and then residing / working in another country. The Woodward lecture series is made possible by an endowment from Mr Woodward and is a series in which lectures on various topics in economics are given.

I’ve got the rest of today off, which is very nice indeed. The week up till now has been pretty hectic, so it’s nice having some down time. Although I still have to make a visit to Futureshop to return my laptop. For now I’m going to stick with the Lenovo, I love how it’s so small. I think I will buy some extra memory for it from NCIX today.

Also just got my macroeconomics textbook in the mail today. $10.72 fater shipping as opposed to the $75.86 the bookstore charges. I’m really impressed by modern society’s used goods market (craigslist, ebay, amazon, etc)