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Joan Robinson Econ 490 fall 2019

I am a student in Professor Arvan's Econ 490 class. I am blogging under an alias to protect my true identity using the name of a famous economist for that purpose.

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September 03, 2019

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Illinibucks

September 26, 2019

I would definitely use Illinibucks for the registration period , because of the disadvantage that I have experienced in my previous semester. In Spring 2019 semester, which is my 2 nd semester of my junior year, I was not able to register for any 400 level statistics courses, despite that I was in Statistics senior standing student. I wanted to distribute the courses amongst Statistics and Economics, which is another major I am pursuing, so that I can lessen my workload for my senior year. I sought out help from my advisor, but she was unable to help in anyway too. Luckily, I had declared Economics major late, so I registered for all the prerequisite courses on that semester. With Illinibucks, I will know for sure that classes I will be registered and follow my desired schedule every semester. From my understanding, there are already services that some students provide that is similar to this. I have seen and heard about some students who are in the priority grou...

Conflict

November 18, 2019

First of all, I am sorry for this late post. I am in the midst of application season and totally missed the deadline for this assignment. Living in an absolutely zero conflict may be awesome. Complete peacefulness is what I have always acquired, hoping not to see any turbulence that disturb my life. Fortunately, through my parents I have developed a skill as to how to politely address my point of view while objecting another person’s and how to gain respect others in schools and in social settings. I was definitely not liked by everyone, but I am certain that not that many people hated me at the same time, or at least they did not care, which is something I am thankful for. I have always been the type of person who cares a lot about how others think about me, so I always do act accordingly and try to read the atmosphere of the room. I am also confident that I do not usually offend others with my words or actions both consciously and unconsciously. I still...

Last Post

December 07, 2019

For this week’s blog post, I would like to review some of the opinions and critiques I have about the course. First of all, there were many new topics for me in terms of organizations. Among all, transaction cost, which was one of the first few topics introduced left a deep impression on me. It is not my first time learning the concept, but I was able to understand the true meaning and how it applies to nearly every task that I complete, which was nice. I also liked the discussion of incentives and punishment in work setting a lot, such as how incentives can drive an employee to work more efficiently and how punishment can discourage employees and hinder the particular employee’s growth. I was also impressed how much Professor Arvan put into the course. Professor Arvan offered me an office hour via phone over the weekend and I see how much work is needed to put together the excel assignments. I also believe having soft deadlines can be time consuming as it require...