Looking back on Economics of Organization
Williamson-like critique: This course, economics of organization was the first ever discussion lead course I have taken in economics, and I quite liked it. I enjoyed taking the subjects learned in econ and applying them to the organization. I also really enjoyed expanding the discussion into topics in psychology such as opportunism, goodwill and social identity. I don’t think we have any courses on behavioral economics and this made the course very unique. I truly believe that in a discussion based course, attendance is imperative. At the beginning of the course we had bonus points for attending lecture, I liked that a lot. It was a nice reward for being in class. However, even though we got points for merely being present in class, I do not think that this was not incentive enough to make the students really engage in the discussion. Don’t get me wrong, in my opinion, being in class is the least a student can do. We pay a lot for tuition and even thoug