Jacob LaRiviere



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ECON 145: Economics of Ocean Resources

Below are links to readings for Econ 145.
Our weekly TA sessions for Econ 145 are Wednesdays from 5pm-5:50pm in Warren Lecture Hall, room 2002.
All TA office hours are Wednesdays 2pm-3:30pm and by appointment. There will be additional office hours around test times.
The essay assignment was due Friday April 18th. Please see syllabus for assignment details and description.
A link to the syllabus


Copy of the 2007 Midterm is HERE

Homework Assignment Number 2 can be found Here. The due date for the assignment was Wednesday April 30th in class.
The solutions to the second homework assignment are Here.
The midterm was be held on Friday, May 9th in class. There were two review sessions on the evenings of the 7th and 8th at 6pm in Cetner Hall 119.
A copy of the midterm with suggested solutions is HERE

NEW!! The curve with regrade information is HERE. I apologize for the delay in posting this; there were some kinks that had to be ironed out.
NEW!! A copy of the 2007 Final is HERE
. The final will be held Thursday June 12th from 3pm-6pm in Center Hall room #101.

NEW!! There was a review session on June 4th in lew of the normal section from 5pm-7pm in Center Hall 214 led by Professor Squires.

NEW!! There is another review session on June 9th from 8pm-9:30pm in LEDDN auditorium. It will be lead by professor Squires.

NEW!! All TAs will hold their usual office hours during finals week except for me. I will hold mine Wednesday morning at 10am-noon.
All the links should be working; if not, please report by emailing me at jlarivie (at) ucsd.edu
Readings with a star are either required or part of choice of required readings.

Survey of the Sea
NEW!! ** Squires: Property Rights
NEW!! ** Squires, et. al.: ITQs as a Management Tool
**Wilen: Bioeconomics of Renewable Resource Use
**Hardin: Tragedy of the Commons
**Wade: Management of Common Property Resources
**Seabright:Managing Local Commons
**Acheson: Lobster Fiefs
**Cinner: Socioeconomics and Marine Tenure
**Grafton, et. al.: Incentive Based Approaches
**Hilborn: Marine Reserves
**Pauly, et. al.: Fishing Down Food Webs
**Pauly: Towards Sustainability
**Hilborn: Moving to Sustainability
**Pearce and Turner: Total Economic Value
**Segerson: Policies and Turtle Bycatch
**Hall: Ecological View of Tuna-Dolphin Problem
**Pearce and Schneider: What Saved the Whales?

Optional Readings
NEW!! Ferraro: Turtle Payments
NEW!! Ferraro: Turtle Payments 2
NEW!! Solomons: On Turtles
NEW!! Gjertsen: Turtles
Worm et. al.: Biodiversity
Saving Fish and Fishers
Scott: Property Rights
Grafton et. al.: Economics of Sustainable...
Zabel: Ecology of Sustainable...
Pearce: Total Economic Value
Libecap: Assigning Property Rights
Prisoner's Dilemma
Heal: Chapter 3
TURTLES!!!
Hedley: Dolphin Agreement


Powerpoint lecture slides and Word Lectures:
Public Goods and Common Resources
Externalities and Market Failure
Property Rights (for Jan 19 and Jan 22)
Law of the Sea (for Jan 24)
ITQ slides
Conservation and Markets
Mixed Goods and Public Bads
Ecological Tradeoffs
Dolphins and Tuna Part A
Dolphins and Tuna Part B
Whales
Turtles 1
Turtles 2
Ocean the Law and Turtles 2
Policies for Externalities
NEW!!! Global Fishing Issues (May 5th)
NEW!!! Coral Reefs A
NEW!!! Turtles
NEW!!! Whales (part 2)
NEW!!! Ecological Tradeoffs

Introductory Lecture on Bioeconomics:
Intro Bioeconomics I
Intro Bioeconomics II
Intro Bioeconomics III