Gary Lynne's Teaching/Course Offerings

 Last update: 10/05/07

History

Taught both undergraduate and graduate, mainly the latter, for several years at the University of Florida, in

• Production economics
• Benefit cost analysis
• Natural resource and environmental (conservation and mechanisms) economics

Teaching behavioral economics as well as natural resource, environmental and ecological economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln since 1999.

Teaching What?

AECN/NREE 265, Resource and Environmental (and Ecological) Economics (3 cr)  A basic introductory course to the field. Covers basic principles and contemporary problems, e.g. climate change, biodiversity, energy and water issues.

AECN 896, Behavioral Economics (3 cr)    (Note: Did two readings courses in 2004, one in Behavioral Economics Theory and the other in Behavioral Economics Methods. Offered a Behavioral Economics Seminar in Fall, 2005. A course in Behavioral Economics was offered for the first time in Spring, 2007, Please see the Blackboard site, or contact me,  for details).

AECN/NRES 883, Ecological Economics (3 cr)  (Note: This course is offered both On-campus and Off-campus (Distance, web-based delivery), with ample opportunities for On-campus and Off-campus students from around the USA and other parts of the world to interact through the Blackboard discussion board).

Courses are (at different levels of presentation):

• about resource conservation to reduce throughput and stresses on the environment
• about acknowledging 1st and 2nd law thermodynamics, both the conservation and entropy laws
• about market and other types of mechanisms to create resources from heretofore environmental resources
• about transforming natural capital into manufactured capital:  why, when, where, how much
• about applications of economic theory to resolving resource and ecological management, and environmental policy problems
• about behavioral economics, generally, and representing the moral dimension explicitly in economic analysis in particular, in a new kind of economics,  recalling that  Adam Smith's The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations on which modern economics is based was written in the context of Smith's other book (which he wrote first, and labored on far after finishing the Wealth of Nations book), The Theory of Moral Sentiments. This draw on behavioral economics recognizes the complexity that is human nature, and the dual-motives in human nature (both self-interest and other-interest pursued at the same time, both egoism-hedonism and empathy-altruism operating jointly within the dually motivated yet unified-self).
• about integrating behavioral economics; natural resource, environmental and ecological economics

Teaching When?

AECN/NREE 265 is offered each spring as a regular 15-week semester course. AECN/NRES 883 is offered as a 10-week course (both distance and on-campus at the same time) during the time period of October to mid-December.   AECN 896 Behavioral Economics  is offered on a varying time schedule, dependent upon student demand, but generally starting in late spring and going into the early summer period. 

Teaching How?

• Plentiful dialogue about current scientific literature and contemporary issues
• Drawing upon two economic theories:  microeconomics and metaeconomics
• Focused on the Web and other technologies to deliver the material (e.g. audio augmented PowerPoints, Podcasting), using Blackboard, especially for the Distance course. 

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