Rebecca Stein

Dr. Stein is Director of the Microeconomic Principles Program in the Economics Department. She has taught here at Penn since 1998 and has received several awards for her distinguished teaching including the Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence by Non-Standing Faculty. Her research is in Health Economics and she is a senior Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute.

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Microeconomics: When Markets Fail (Coursera)

Perfect markets achieve efficiency: maximizing total surplus generated. But real markets are imperfect. In this course we will explore a set of market imperfections to understand why they fail and to explore possible remedies including as antitrust policy, regulation, government intervention. Examples are taken from everyday life, from goods [...]

Microeconomics: The Power of Markets (Coursera)

We make economics decisions every day: what to buy, whether to work or play, what to study. We respond to markets all the time: prices influence our decisions, markets signal where to put effort, they direct firms to produce certain goods over others. Economics is all around us. This [...]