Reorganize lectures (again)

[jstac]

There are a few things we might reoptimize. For example,

• The Samuelson multiplier-accelerator model comes before the lecture on complex numbers but should perhaps come after.

• The new Cass-Koopmans lecture on optimal growth is not connected to the existing lectures Optimal Growth I - III.

• There are several lectures on optimal savings that are not connected to each other (e.g., "The Income Fluctuation Problem" vs "Optimal Savings I")

• Some nice foundational lectures appear very late, such as "Rational Expectations Equilibrium" and "Markov Perfect Equilibrium".

• There are a few lectures that use Euler equation methods but they are not linked.

Here are some vague ideas:

We could try organizing lectures by application class. For example, we could have sections on "Search" and "Optimal Growth" rather than putting them all under "Dynamic Programming"

That would force us to look at these subsets as a whole and integrate them better.

We could think about adding new sections called "Filtering" (or "Information") and "Some Fundamental Models". The latter could appear early and contain nice fundamental lectures like "Rational Expectations Equilibrium".

After the section "Tools and Techniques" we could add a new section called "Dynamic Optimization" that collects a few relatively easy lectures introducing these topics, such as "LQ Control: Foundations", "Shortest Paths" and "Optimal Savings I" + "Optimal Savings II".

The "Markov Jump" lectures could be shifted to their own section.

[jstac]

Purely tossing ideas around:

A new section on "Information" could combine the filtering material and the robustness material.

We could have a section called "Optimal Stopping" that combines the job search material with "A Problem that Stumped Milton Friedman".

"Tools and Techniques" could be broken up into

• Tools and Techniques: Algebra
• Tools and Techniques: Probability
• Tools and Techniques: Dynamic Optimization (containing Shortest Paths, Cass-Koopmans, LQ Control: Foundations)

[jstac]

"Data and Empirics" should perhaps be shifted lower. It's not closely related to the other material.

[jstac]

The lectures on numba and parallelization discuss decorators, which aren't introduced until the lecture on "More Language Features".

How about a new section called "Introduction to Dynamics" that contains the two lectures on MCs, the OOP III lecture, the Kalman filter lecture and the linear state space lecture? Eventually we should also add a lecture on 45 degree diagrams.

Then, "Advanced Python Programming", now freed of OOP III, can be shifted up above "The Scientific Libraries", perhaps adding in OOP II. Consider dropping the "Debugging" lecture.

[jstac]

Now largely redundant. Closing.