IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT PAPERS FOR ALL MY COURSES (except introductory Macro, Econ 2305) and ABOUT FINAL CLASS MEETING FOR ALL REGULARLY SCHEDULED COURSES WITH ASSIGNED PAPERS AND NO FINAL:

The guidelines for source material given in the syllabus must be followed
completely in terms of using all of the assigned material. Failure to do so
can result in your paper being returned to you. These are minimum
requirements; use of additional sources is always welcome. For simplicity,
you may use the following citation method. Within the period of the
preceding sentence put (author year of publication, page or pages) followed
by a period immediately after the closed parenthesis. Example: (DeGregori
1985, 17-21, 36). If you go on quoting or otherwise using ideas or facts
from the same source without interruption for several sentences or more,
you may simply place the citation before you start using another source as
long as all of the pages that form the basis of these lines are included in
the order that you use them. This means that every item that is in your
paper prior to a citation up to the previous citation can be found in that
source on those pages. If they cannot be found there, you will be asked for
an explanation.

It is very likely that we will have a mandatory meeting either the last
class period or during the regularly scheduled time for our final. If you
miss class and do not hear an announcement or see the posting on the web,
you will still be responsible for finding if the session will be held and
when. You need not study for the session as I will ask some selected
students a few questions about their papers. This is not meant to embarrass
anyone but simply to verify information in some of the papers and to make
sure that the brilliant papers are from equally brilliant enrolled students.

FINAL NOTE
If you do call me for whatever reason and reach my voice mail, please begin
by clearly and slowly giving your name and the number at which you wish me to reach you. Too often, I receive long complicated messages with a quick and often garbled name and number at the end as the time expires. Whatever your message, it is better that I am able to contact you than to try an sort out all the details in one recording. As stated above, if possible, an
email is the best way to contact me.

Thomas R. DeGregori, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
University of Houston
Houston, Texas 77204-5882
Ph. 001 - 1 - 713 743-3838
Fax 001 - 1 - 713 743-3798
Email trdegreg@uh.edu
Web homepage http://www.uh.edu/~trdegreg