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5 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 17 Mar \ parent \ on: Is bitcoin being taught about in econ classes at universities? econ

Economics courses really don’t talk about money very much.

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65 sats \ 1 reply \ @TNStacker 17 Mar

In Finance we took a 3000 level Econ course called Money and Banking. It was a history of currency and banking in the US. Bank runs and failures and the resulting legislation and executive actions. Didn't mention us coming off the gold standard though. It was a course for people becoming bankers, so...

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/money-and-banking

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26 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 17 Mar

I wasn’t thinking about electives. Yeah, there are usually a handful of cool upper-level courses that cover more historical or philosophical topics.

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56 sats \ 2 replies \ @stack_harder OP 17 Mar

is it just all formulas and calculations?

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70 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 17 Mar

It's not really about memorizing formulas. It's about learning how to set up a formal representation of a decision system and then using whatever mathematical tools are necessary to understand that system.

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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 17 Mar

Pretty much

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