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  After I graduated law school, my first job was with this great organization in New York City called The Center for Family Representation . And what CFR does is - it's about half attorneys and half social workers , and we were court-appointed to parents and child abuse and child neglect cases in Manhattan and Queens. Basically, if social services in New York was considering intervening in a family, supervising in the family, maybe removing the child and placing the child in foster care. We were people appointed to help them make the arguments that they should keep their child in their home, o r that they've done enough to have the child returned back to their home.  And as you can imagine, people don't end up in this type of situation or in family court in general for really sunny or rosy reasons. You know, unfortunately, the majority of my clients were dealing with things like substance abuse and drug addiction and alcohol, mental health, poverty, domestic violence, and ...

  I'm usually gonna to try to do an outline of what we're covering. So we've talked about course details, what is micro? Now let's talk about how we do that. What economics does? which is we use models. And I'll talk about a model of Supply and Demand. How do we actually teach you all about these trade-offs . The way we do it is by building simplified  models.  A Model is technically the  description of any  relationship between two  or more variables.  But unlike explaining  relation between energy and mass  we do not have scientific laws  and constants in our universe.  Ok? Economics is as much as  we hate to say it, not  a real science.  It is a social science.  Which means that basically we don't have rigid laws that we can write down say they're all. They're everywhere applicable.  We have to use models to  basically try to explain  the world as much as we  can.  And so in doing so,...

  Three points about my teaching style. First of all, I don't write everything on the board. For the freshmen here, we're not in high school anymore. You need to pay attention and listen to what I say, not just what I write. So it's important to remember that.  The second point is, as you can tell, I talk really fast and my handwriting is really bad. So please don't be afraid to ask "what the hell" I just said or wrote. If you don't know, chances are at least 40% of the class doesn't know either.  We'll learn later this semester about the concept of public good. A public good is something you do which has a personal cost and a social benefit. I understand raising your hand in a class as large as this can be intimidating. But remember, in doing so, you're not just helping yourself, you're helping your fellow classmates. So please don't lean and whisper loudly, what the hell did he just say, to the person next to you. Raise your hand an...

  Last time, we talked about further out indifference curves make you happier.  Today, we talked about the fact that you're  limited by your budget. So we have the furthest indifference curve you can get to is gonna be, definitionally, at the tangent of the indifference curve   and the budget constraint .  And, once again, that gives you -- we realize we don't want to measure utils, but, just  for mathematical, for mathematical purpose, that gives utility at the tangency of square root of 18.  At that point, you are choosing six cookies and three pizzas.  That is the best off you can get given your budget.  And, to see this, let's talk about some other points. Why isn't point A better?  Why isn't it better to have two maybe  you just-- maybe you like cookies a lot and don't like-- or like pizza a lot and don't like cookies that much.  How can we say that point D is better than point A?  AUDIENCE: Because point D ...

  I remember my first se*ual experience. My father loved to fish and my mother collected a lot of driftwood for her flower arrangements. And we went up to Cape Cod and it was in the autumn. And we were playing on the beach way2 up the beach. And I was about 5 years old.  And my father who  was a very good tennis  player gave me a tennis ball  and he put his big watch  on my wrist.  And he said "You girls go up around that huge sand escarpment and don't come back, and don't look back until this hand is here and that hand is there" So off we shuffled up the beach. We followed the instructions and we came back when we were told to. And my mother was entirely different. She's generally a bit of a battle. And she was right next to my father, they were both sitting on this tiny little towel and she was so charming. And I looked down to her and I said "Something's going on here".  I don't know what it is  but I know it's good for  me.  And...

  Okay, goal, time and number three. This is I would say... it's a notebook. If somebody didn't understand Notebook, plus... Something to write .  It's not gonna work if you were just planning to watch this video and other videos, and then just go and forget about what we were talking about here.  You need some serious work. If you don't have some nice notebook right now, it doesn't matter. At least try to find some piece of paper and we're going to write today. So it's better to stop this video and search for a piece of paper  and a pen or a pencil.  It is scientifically proved that writing by hand   helps us remember things much better,  much deeper.  So we're gonna write  a lot and we're gonna speak a lot.  So three things to work with my course:  goal,  time,  notebook  and also your desire to learn the  Russian language.

  Okay, Let's dive in and we start with saying "Hello". Hello in Russian is this super scary word that you probably heard a lot of time... Здравствуйте (zdra vstvuy te).  Who needs that?! Nobody, because we're all good friends here.  Let's begin with  Привет (Pree-viet)  means hi Hello -  Здравствуйте ( zdra vstvuy te) Hi - Привет (Pree-v'et)  Okay, and I want to warn you that I'm going to try to make this course as interactive as possible for the video. So I encourage you to stop the video every time you need and to answer my questions out loud to repeat anything you need to repeat out loud. So right now let's say hi. Hi - Привет (Pree-v'et) First repeat after me  Привет (Pree-viet).  Okay, Now I'm saying  Привет  (Pree-v'et)  to  you and you say "Preev'et  Привет  Daria"  that's my name,  so we can know each other properly.  So I'm saying " Привет  (Pree-v'et) ",  you respond " Привет...