This class provides an introduction to economics and inspires us to look at economic policies from a new perspective. Alex is knowledgeable, insightful, and inquisitive. I highly recommend this class.

Thanks for Alex's teaching. I learned a lot from Mr. Ha-Joon Chang's video lecture and your teaching with great insights. 1. I learned some key theories and basic assumptions from a developmentalist economist, quite different from dominant, mainstream neoclassical and neo-liberal economist view. Kind of critical perspective to know economics I think. 2. A great introduction for people to understand economics, fewer mathematical models, graphs and numbers, making it easier to get into economic world. It's quite suitable for me, a economic outsider. 3. I get to know how the current financial market works and the real world has been built up. Also, the financialization, penetration of financial logic into everything. People rigidly stick to some ideologies so that they are easily unaware of viewing the world through their financial lens. 4. Mostly interestingly for me, it's the interdisciplinary studies, comparison between mainstream economist and Karl Marx's view about production and distribution. 5. So happy to find some allies (?) and we may work together to organize and mobilize people in the future...lol

I highly recommend the class as we want to take a more clear and closer look at the real world. On top of that, I got to know some economic dominant assumptions. It seems like a process of revealing and dissecting mainstream economist's worldview. Most importantly, the class presents a great opportunity to be aware of how these economic assumptions have shaped the world.