ECON488

Welcome to the Homepage for ECON 488, Senior Capstone Seminar in Economics. Below you will find links to course reading materials, interesting links, and other information I’ve pulled together from the Internet. If you have anything you think would be worth adding, please let me know.

Link to Course on Canvas

Week 2 Lecture 1

Week 3 Lecture

• Productivity Rmd file

A lot of the material you will need for this semester will be posted on Canvas, including all deadlines and many resources.

• Video introductions & help for assignments

Texts

• CORE: The Economy
• CORE: ESPP
• CORE: Doing Economics - Empirical Projects
• OpenStax Economics

Reflective Essay Help

• Examples from Monash
• How to & Main Points

Data & Indicators Help

• Richmond Fed
• NY Fed
• Marketwatch
• Trading Economics

This project must be done using one of the following tools.

• Google Sites - login with gmail account
• Microsoft Sway - site license, login with dukes.jmu.edu

My Google Sites example: https://sites.google.com/view/economicindicators/home My Adobe Spark example: https://spark.adobe.com/page/PO8aXcwbMK67t/

Research Paper Help

Relevant Links Used in Class

• NBER Business Cycles

Getting started with R:

• YouTube Playlist for getting started with R https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH4UFhLEA0B-O2k9PHUOoBKBB1YKjSBvr

• https://www.statmethods.net/r-tutorial/index.html

Citations

Link for Chicago Manual of Style for Citations:

• I prefer footnotes to endnotes
• Internet news articles should be cited in footnotes, and not the reference section
• Do not put “n.p.n.d.” in your references
• Any quotes longer than five lines should be put in block quotes. As a rule, this should be extremely limited