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it would be more helpful if they could use a laser pointers while explaining cause sometimes its hard to find the remote pointer which is white in color.
21:40 But wouldn't them using some of them ( i imagine is surplus) as fish nets make them better off. The whole overarching point was overall improvement of their lives, right?
Economics is the study of scarce resources. Giving a bed net to person A to use as a fishing net would be useful but not as useful as giving a net to person B to protect against malaria or person C to improve sanitation
13:20 footnote. 14:09 - yes, include the benefit for set of people "knuckleheads" who refuse vaccination yet also pose the greatest risk. I say knucklehead because this is happening with COVID-19 here today and we need the same solution here.
In the experiment conducted among the pregnant women, what was the order of issuance ie. Where free items given in the first week, followed by 10 shilling in the second week & so on, since the population of people who didn't get these nets reduce week after week and in a way doesn't this also reduces the demand, which is erroneously captured in the price effect. ?
Hello, why is the following statement true "They don’t bite an infected person, so they are less likely to carry the parasite (INDIRECT effect, or externality)." Thank you
Mosquitos that don't carry malaria parasite can become carriers by biting the person infected. They can then bite another person and transfer the malaria parasite to an uninfected person.
Can anyone provide more reading Material to same lectures?
Here are the readings for the course on MIT OpenCourseWare: ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-73-the-challenge-of-world-poverty-spring-2011/readings/. Best wishes on your studies!
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it would be more helpful if they could use a laser pointers while explaining cause sometimes its hard to find the remote pointer which is white in color.
21:40 But wouldn't them using some of them ( i imagine is surplus) as fish nets make them better off. The whole overarching point was overall improvement of their lives, right?
Economics is the study of scarce resources. Giving a bed net to person A to use as a fishing net would be useful but not as useful as giving a net to person B to protect against malaria or person C to improve sanitation
The graphs on the slides should have been better prepared. They are confusing the audience.
13:20 footnote. 14:09 - yes, include the benefit for set of people "knuckleheads" who refuse vaccination yet also pose the greatest risk. I say knucklehead because this is happening with COVID-19 here today and we need the same solution here.
In the experiment conducted among the pregnant women, what was the order of issuance ie. Where free items given in the first week, followed by 10 shilling in the second week & so on, since the population of people who didn't get these nets reduce week after week and in a way doesn't this also reduces the demand, which is erroneously captured in the price effect. ?
It's good lecturer
how to tackle with corrupt bureaucrats in India? I am so frustrated,
Pay them till you get to top.
excellent
Hello, why is the following statement true
"They don’t bite an infected person, so they are less likely to carry the parasite (INDIRECT
effect, or externality)."
Thank you
spillovers
or rather less infected people...
Mosquitos that don't carry malaria parasite can become carriers by biting the person infected. They can then bite another person and transfer the malaria parasite to an uninfected person.
Who came here after her Nobel prize?
This accent is quite hard to understand at speed... And speed is needed because this course is incredibly slow
Use subtitle
It's not hard at all bro
Most of these MIT professors have thick accents and hard to comprehend. Sorry but it’s true