tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201862013519904553.post6776882550030838980..comments2016-12-06T05:46:58.080-08:00Comments on Harold Demsetz Econ 490 fall 2016: Final CritiqueHarold Demsetz Econ 490 fall 2016http://www.blogger.com/profile/10100440157035478460noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201862013519904553.post-57441185094230107852016-12-06T05:46:58.080-08:002016-12-06T05:46:58.080-08:00Padding the posts - I wonder if it occurred to you...Padding the posts - I wonder if it occurred to you that a different path was available - to ratchet up you own thinking on the subject so you had more to say about it without padding. Have you actually worked it through to its maximum or only skimmed the surface? <br /><br />Now it may be you need some training on hot to step up your thinking in this way. It may not be immediate how to do this. My hope (and I confess it was only a hope) is that the in class discussion would teach you something about how to make your writing better. In other words, I wanted you to be the one to ask questions in the blogging, questions that weren't immediately obvious given the prompt, but questions that nonetheless followed if you thought about the prompt some. It is addressing those questions that would have gotten you easily to the word limit without padding and would have made your posts more interesting as an exercise.<br /><br />You have a habit of counting things - pages to be read, paragraphs in things I write, and here words in a blog post. I don't fully understand that compulsion, but if you must count try ideas. How many have you come up with? That would be a good measure of performance. <br /><br />Professor Arvanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15256000730474030475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201862013519904553.post-12934770254736815912016-12-05T23:10:33.727-08:002016-12-05T23:10:33.727-08:00I think you make some excellent points. Some of th...I think you make some excellent points. Some of these points I touched on in my post, but a couple of them didn't really cross my mind. When you brought up the minimum word requirement of 600 words. I do agree that it should have been brought down a bit. Some of the earlier posts in the semester, I felt like I was searching for more material which probably made my post seem long and boring at times. Do you feel like there should have been a word requirement at all? Secondly, I definitely learned some new terms this semester, but being able to apply economic principles to our daily lives was definitely the biggest benefit of the course in my eyes. Do you see yourself applying this knowledge in life after school? Either way, I think we can agree that this course provided us with beneficial knowledge to help us in the future. Peter Diamondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16666712997181592064noreply@blogger.com