Kevin Kuruc

Professor Kuruc made intro macro one of my favorite classes at Middlebury. He took abstract models like aggregate demand, the money multiplier, and the Fed’s policy tools, and kept tying them to things actually in the news, so the material never felt like a set of graphs to memorize. His lectures were clear and well paced, and he was good at spotting when the room had lost the thread and backing up to explain it a different way. He also made himself easy to reach outside class. Office hours felt like a conversation, not a test. I left the course understanding how the economy works far better than I expected to, and more confident about continuing in economics. I’d recommend him to anyone starting out in the major.

Professor Kuruc made intro macro one of my favorite classes at Middlebury. He took abstract models like aggregate demand, the money multiplier, and the Fed’s policy tools, and kept tying them to things actually in the news, so the material never felt like a set of graphs to memorize. His lectures were clear and well paced, and he was …Read more

Kuruc has super lax policies for attendance and AI use, so it's very much up to you to manage your own learning for some of it. If you're not completely locked out for this class, it's not too bad at all. There's a ton of sources of help.

Kevin Kuruc was very helpful in facilitating our learning. This course gives you basic economic insights and teaches you how to understand markets. The lectures, homework (problem sets), and exams are the main components of the class.