Economics 311: Energy & Natural Resource Economics

Problem Sets

Economics 311 emphasizes your participation in the learning process through a variety of activities including problem sets, extended case studies, in-class problems, and computer simulations.   

Problem Set #1: Scarcity, Sustainability, and Common Property Resources.

Problem Set #1 covers material from weeks 1 - 4 and chapters 1-3 of the Hartwick & Olewiler text including all class handouts and readings,

Download problem Set #1 here.

Problem Set #2: Economics of the Fishery

Problem Set #2 covers material from weeks 5 - 9 and chapters 4, 5, and 11 of the Hartwick & Olewiler text including all class handouts and readings,

Download problem Set #2 here.
The Pacific Salmon data are here.

Problem Set #3: Exhaustible Resources & Energy

Problem Set #3 covers material from chapters 8 and 9 of the Hartwick & Olewiler text, and chapters 5 and 7 of the Hartwick & Olewiler readings packet, including all class handouts and readings,

Problem Set #4: Forestry and Sustainability

Problem Set #4 covers material from chapters 10 and 12 of the Hartwick & Olewiler text.