Class Material

Syllabi & Reading Lists

Syllabi and Reading Lists created by Dr. Mason Gaffney for class use. Files are organized by course code and course name.

Capital-Intensity of Housing

Economies, Diseconomies and False Economies of Scale

Harmful Fallacies in Economic Discourse

Labor Intensity by Size of Firm: Contrasts Between Large and Medium-Sized Firms

Macro-economics as a Field of Study: A Survey

Margins, Quantum Leaps, and Ecotones

Money, Credit and Crisis

Progress and Poverty Study Guide

Sources of Investable Funds

Substitution: A Three-Factor Triangle

The Great Economists

Triads as Memory Aids

Velocity of Money as a Macro Choke

“Time-Averaging” Model, to Determine Life of Capital

12 Elements of Urban Synergy (excerpt from the Synergistic City)

16 Ways to Meet a Capital Shortage

3 Stages of Production

5 Year Repayment Schedule

An Inventory of Rent-Yielding Resources (excerpt)

Annual Cost of Ownership

Annualizing with the Installment Plan Factor (IPF)

Aspects of Lender Risk and Bias

Basic Mathematics of Finance, Skeletal Outline