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HEN 368Health

Economics

Gale L. Pooley, Ph.D., MAI,

MRICS, CCIM, SRA

gpooley@alfaisal.edu

How did this happen?

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud

Bill Gates

Scarcity

Choices

Make Better

Choices

Syllabus

Time Commitment

Class 3 Hours

Homework 6 Hours

Total 9 Hours

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number

Moodle

GradesChats

SyllabusOther items

Think like an

Economist

WordsNumbers

Illustrations

Economist’s Dictionary

Get the most

out of life

RationalIncentives

Margin

OptimizeTradeoffs

Tradeoffs

Mileage Safety

A 2001 National Academy of Sciences study estimated that the traffic death toll attributable to past downsizing was approximately 2,000 lives per year.

Economic ModelsSimplified Version of Reality

Value in Prediction

Incentives Matter

Change IncentivesChange Behavior

Incentives aremore important

than goals

Consequencesmatter more

than intentions

Unintended Consequences

Macro Micro

ScienceHardSoft

Most peopleMost of the

timeEconomics is a Soft Science

What is Wealth?What People

Want

Get wealthy by making

others happy

Global Device

ARM HoldingsWolfson Marvel

SkyworksCSR

Linear TechnologiesNXP

National SemiconductorSharp

SamsungToshibaInfineon

BroadcomNumonyx

MicronDialog Semiconductor

Texas InstrumentsSTMicroelectronics

Silicon StorageRF Microdevices

Cirrus Logic

U.S.U.K.

GermanyKoreaJapan

TaiwanChina

Ideas occur in minds

not places

Hockey Stick

Trends

$3

Angus Maddison

IncomePer

PersonPerDay

20121AD

$100

20121AD

$3

$100

$30 World 10x

Northern EuropeNorth America

33x

1820

Angus Maddison

“The Millennium–Poor Until 1820”

IncomePer

PersonPerDay

SlopePercentage

ChangeRelationships

Cause and EffectAreas

X

Y

Quantity

Price

Q

P

The End

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