A few days ago, George Akerlof reached the age of 80. I first met George in the summer of 1973 when I was an intern at the Council of Economic Advisers. I worked as a research assistant to two labor economists and George was on university leave to serve a tour of duty as a senior staff economist at the Council. We only overlapped a few weeks but as we both shared a common undergraduate alma mater, Yale College, we were sort of academic siblings. Almost two decades later George and his wife, Janet Yellen, contacted me regarding details of German Democratic Republic economic statistics for their Brookings paper with Andrew K. Rose and Helga Hessenius “East Germany in from the Cold: The Economic Aftermath of Currency Union” (Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1:1991). During our long telephone conversation George referred to specific footnotes in my World Bank working paper produced for the project led by Paul Marer that resulted in the book Dollar GNPs of the USSR and Eastern Europe (1985) so naturally I was impressed by his scholarly thoroughness. There were two other encounters that were roughly a decade apart, the last being a conversation in the lobby of the Mt. Washington Hotel at the Bretton Woods conference of INET in 2011.
Like many other economists I have received great inspiration from the work and scientific manner of George Akerlof. So in honor of his eightieth birthday, Economics in the Rear-View Mirror offers this collection of links to internet archived course materials from his graduate macroeconomics course at Berkeley.
P.S. For another shipload of links from the WaybackMachine (not involving George Akerlof), course materials from…
Principles of Macroeconomics at M.I.T. from 1995-2006
Principles of Microeconomics at M.I.T. from 1994-2005
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Mining the internet archive WaybackMachine
The links to course material for Economics 202A: Macroeconomic Theory taught at the University of California, Berkeley were assembled from the lists created by searches using the internet archive WaybackMachine:
54 URLs captured with: http://emlab.berkeley.edu:80/users/akerlof/index.shtml
167 URLs captured with: http://emlab.berkeley.edu:80/users/webfac/akerlof/e202*
83 URLs captured with: http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/akerlof/e202a
It is of course frustrating to have so much that is yet so incomplete. Still what we have extracted is conveniently displayed below and perhaps others will be successful in filling gaps in the record.
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Economics 202A: Macroeconomic Theory
Spring 1992
George Akerlof
Final exam (1992)
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Economics 202A: Macroeconomic Theory
Spring 1993
George Akerlof
Final exam (1993)
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Economics 202A: Macroeconomic Theory
Spring 1995
George Akerlof / G. Mehrez / P. Ghezzi
Final exam (1995)
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Economics 202A: Macroeconomic Theory
Spring 1996
George Akerlof / G. Mehrez / P. Ghezzi
Final exam (1996)
Final Questions Version 1
Final Questions Version 2
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Economics 202A: Macroeconomic Theory
Spring 2000
George Akerlof / Andrea De Michelis / Mar-Andreas Muendler
Midterm 2000
Midterm Exam Questions
Midterm Exam Answers
Final exam (2000)
Final Questions Version 1
Final Questions Version 2
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Economics 202A: Macroeconomic Theory
Spring 2001
George Akerlof / Andrea De Michelis
Course Home page (2001)
Lectures (2001)
[Could not find an archived copies of lectures]
Final Exam (2001)
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Economics 202A: Macroeconomic Theory
Spring 2002
George Akerlof
Course Home page (S2002)
Syllabus (S2002)
[Could not find an archived copy of syllabus]
Lectures (S2002)
[Could not find an archived copies of lectures]
Problem Sets and Solutions (S2002)
[Could not find an archived copies of problems]
Midterm Q’s and A’s (S2002)
Midterm Examination Akerlof/De Michelis (with answers)
Final exam (S2002)
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Economics 202A: Macroeconomic Theory
Fall 2002
George Akerlof
Course Home page (F2002)
Syllabus (F2002)
[Could not find an archived copy of syllabus]
Lectures (F2002)
Lectures 1-5 (GA) / Lecture 6 (GA) / Lecture 7 (GA) / Lecture 8 (GA) / Lecture 9 (GA) / Lecture 10 (GA) / Lecture 11 (GA) / Lecture 12 (GA) / Lecture 13 (GA) / Lecture 14 (GA) / Lecture 15 (GA) / Lecture 16 (GA) / Lecture 17 (GA) / Lecture 18 (GA) / Lecture 19 (GA) / Lecture 20 (GA) / Lecture 21 (GA) / Lecture 22 (GA) / Lecture 23 (GA) / Lecture 24 (GA)
Problem Sets and Solutions (F2002)
Problem Set 2 and Solutions
Problem Set 6 and Solutions
Midterm Q’s and A’s (F2002)
Midterm Examination Questions. Akerlof/De Michelis
Midterm Examination Answers. Akerlof/De Michelis
Final exam (F2002)
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Economics 202A: Macroeconomic Theory
Fall 2003
George Akerlof and David Romer
Course Home page (2003)
Syllabus (2003)
[Could not find an archived copy of syllabus]
Lectures (2003)
[Could not find an archived copies of lectures]
Problem Sets and Solutions (2003)
[Could not find an archived copies of problems]
Midterm Q’s and A’s (2003)
Midterm Examination Akerlof/Goncalves (with answers)
Final exam (2003)
[Could not find an archived copy of questions or answers]
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Economics 202A: Macroeconomic Theory
Fall 2004
George Akerlof
Course Home page (2004)
Syllabus (2004)
Lectures (2004)
Lecture 1 (GA) / Lecture 2 (GA) / Lecture 3 (GA) / Lecture 4 (GA) / Lecture 5 (GA) / Lecture 6 (GA) / [Could not find notes for Lectures 7-24]
Problem Sets and Solutions (2004)
Problem Set 1 and Solutions
Problem Set 3 and Solutions
[Could not find problem sets and solutions for 4-10]
Midterm Q’s and A’s (2004)
Midterm Examination Akerlof/Kroft (with answers)
Final exam (2004)
[Could not find an archived copy of questions or answers]
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Economics 202A: Macroeconomic Theory
Fall 2005
George Akerlof
Course Home page (2005)
[Could not find an archived copy]
Syllabus (2005)
[Could not find an archived copy]
Lectures (2005)
[Could not find archived copies of lectures 1-6] / Lecture 7 (GA) / Lecture 8 (GA) / [Could not find archived copies of lectures 9-15] / Lecture 16 (GA) / [Could not find archived copies of lectures 17-?]
Problem Sets and Solutions (2005)
Problem Set 5 and Solutions
Problem Set 7 and Solutions
Midterm Q’s and A’s (2005)
Midterm Examination Akerlof/Halac (with answers)
Final exam (2005)
[Could not find an archived copy of questions or answers]
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Economics 202A: Macroeconomic Theory
Fall 2006
George Akerlof and David Romer
Course Home page (2006)
Syllabus (2006)
Lectures (2006)
Lecture 1 (GA) / Lecture 2 (GA) / Lecture 3 (GA) / Lecture 4 (GA) / Lecture 5 (GA) / Lecture 6 (GA) / Lecture 7 (GA) / Lecture 8 (GA) / Lecture 9 (GA) / Lecture 10 (GA) / Lecture 11 (GA) / Lecture 12 (GA) / [Could not find archived copies of Romer’s Lectures]
Problem Sets and Solutions (2006)
Problem Set 3 and Solutions
Midterm Q’s and A’s (2006)
Midterm Examination Akerlof/Halac (with answers)
Final exam (2006)
[Could not find an archived copy of questions or answers]
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Economics 202A: Macroeconomic Theory
Fall 2007
George Akerlof (first half) and Maurice Obstfeld (second half)
Course Home page (2007)
Syllabus (2007)
Lectures (2007)
Lecture 1 (GA) / Lecture 2 (GA) / Lecture 3 (GA) / Lecture 4 (GA) / Lecture 5 (GA) / Lecture 6 (GA) / Lecture 7 (GA) / Lecture 8 (GA) / Lecture 9 (GA) / Lecture 10 (GA) / Lecture 11 (GA) / Lecture 12 (GA) / Lecture 13 (MO) / Lecture 14 (MO) / Lecture 15 (MO) / Lecture 16 (MO) / Lecture 16a (MO) /Lecture 16b (MO) / Lecture 17 (MO) / Lecture 18 (MO) / Lecture 19 (MO) / Lecture 20 (MO)
Problem Sets and Solutions (2007)
[Could not find an archived copy of problems or solutions]
Midterm Q’s and A’s (2007)
[Could not find an archived copy of questions or answers]
Final exam (2007)
Final Questions / Final Answers
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Image Source: George A. Akerlof Facts Page, Nobel Prize Website.