ECON 101

I recently took ECON 101 instructed by Robert Gateman. He is one of the famous proffs in Faculty of Arts at UBC mostly because it is believed that his exams are hard. When asked, he denies it by saying “Assume Nothing, Worship None” – one of his famous dialogues. I personally found his midterm exams fairly straightforward. However, his final exam was drilling. But in my entire engineering career, I havent seen a proff like him yet! The way he teaches, the passion with which he explains the content from his gBook (notes) and textbook and his strategies of charging up students is just amazing! I thoroughly enjoyed the course. If there is one important thing that I take home from that course, it is that you follow things that give you more marginal utility (degree of happiness) than the best alternative. People’s actions are determined by their self-interest, not benevolence.