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Model Thinking

2021/2022
Academic Year
ENG
Instruction in English
5
ECTS credits
Course type:
Elective course
When:
4 year, 1 module

Instructor


Третьякова Татьяна Андреевна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The models covered in this class provide a foundation for future social science classes, whether they be in economics, political science, business, or sociology. Mastering this material will give you a huge leg up in advanced courses. They also help you in life. Here's how the course will work. For each model, there is a short, easily digestible overview lecture. Then, there are technical details of the model. Those technical lectures won't require calculus but be prepared for some algebra. The syllabus based on online course https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • to better organize information - to make sense of that fire hose or hairball of data (choose your metaphor) available on the Internet
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • help us make better decisions and adopt more effective strategies
  • improve our abilities to make accurate forecasts
  • improve our ability to design institutions and procedures
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Why Model & Segregation/Peer Effects
  • Aggregation & Decision Models
  • Thinking Electrons: Modeling People & Categorical and Linear Models
  • Tipping Points & Economic Growth
  • Diversity and Innovation & Markov Processes
  • Lyapunov Functions & Coordination and Culture
  • Path Dependence & Networks
  • Randomness and Random Walks & Colonel Blotto
  • Prisoners' Dilemma and Collective Action & Mechanism Design
  • Learning Models: Replicator Dynamics & Prediction and the Many Model Thinker
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Midterm exam
    Test
  • non-blocking Final exam
    Final exam grade in online course
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2021/2022 1st module
    0.7 * Final exam + 0.3 * Midterm exam
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Lamb, R., Firestone, J., Schmitter-Edgecombe, M., & Hand, B. (2019). A computational model of student cognitive processes while solving a critical thinking problem in science. Journal of Educational Research, 112(2), 243. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220671.2018.1514357

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Demil, B., Lecocq, X., & Warnier, V. (2018). “Business model thinking”, business ecosystems and platforms: the new perspective on the environment of the organization. M@n@gement, 21(4), 1213–1228. https://doi.org/10.3917/mana.214.1213