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MIT open course taught MWG better than my Professor... Give me back my tuition
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It is a bit embarrassing for economics as a field that such basic foundational material (as in the 7-8 first chapters of MWG) is "graduate level". It would be sufficient to go over that kind of material once in undergrad, done well, by requiring students to take multivariate calculus, never to see it again.
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The same is true for macro, I don't understand why it is still taught as a bunch of definitions followed by some dinosaur IS-LM graphical stuff. Require calculus, and then do the Solow model and some kind of stripped down RBC model (i.e. a growth model without growth), and that is your "intermediate macro" done in a way that is not a complete waste of time, in that it serves as a foundation or baseline for more modern stuff.