Jon Isham
ECON
Everybody says taking this course with Mez is a must, but I found Isham to be a great professor. We did have two exams. The midterm is easy as long as you listen in class and do a bit of studying to remember key people/topics. The last exam is take home. And in the last month, you write a policy paper on a chosen topic. Isham does sometimes draw out stories, but he deeply cares about the environment and brought in super cool people for us to listen to
Everybody says taking this course with Mez is a must, but I found Isham to be a great professor. We did have two exams. The midterm is easy as long as you listen in class and do a bit of studying to remember key people/topics. The last exam is take home. And in the last month, you write a policy paper on a chosen topic. Isham does so …Read more
This class was extremely project-based, and pretty much the whole class revolved around work with Beyond Bretton Woods. It was sometimes interesting, but felt pretty disorganized at times. Isham's a great guy though.
He is a great professor but the project-based aspect of his course made it difficult to follow. It ended with one large group project (randomly assigned) which can cause issues. Class time was spent talking about the state of the world, not as much the material.