Constantine Azariadis

2 or less hrs/week

Very nice professor. Material in lectures felt dense but relevant to the problem sets. Exams were super easy.

5/23/2024

This class was set up such that the difficulty ramped up considerably for the third exam. I personally had a difficult time digesting course content and felt like I did well in the course because of my background in Mathematics, not from my improved understanding of Economics. Professor was incredibly kind, just not the right learning style for me.

12/20/2023

I honestly dont understand how people do well in this class. Lectures start out interesting and you blink and all of a sudden if its just pure "math"? It\'s a very theoritical class but at the same time it has a lot of mathematical calculations. The textbook doesnt help at all with quizzes or hw\'s. The entire class is based on 2 hws and 2 quizzes.

4/27/2023

Agree with below. The professor is nice, but everything else is terrible. I've learned nothing from lectures, and there isn't any resources available for you to study on your own, except for a few unhelpful slides. The questions that show up on quizzes and problem sets are always different than what we are expected to learn in class.

4/27/2023

I think his lecture was fine. The only problem for me was that his grading standard was not very clear, which annoyed me a lot at the end of the semester.

10/17/2018

Costas Azariadis is yet another example of why free trade is a great policy. He's probably Greece's best export in the past century. The man's brilliant, but easy to talk to. Those questions people spend entire semesters with in Polisci? Costas can give you an answer in five minutes. Meaning of life? Five minutes more. I'm jealous of his grandkids.

12/21/2010

I think the commenters here do not give Azariadis the credit he deserves. Azariadis is a really nice professor and hints at the ways you can get an A in the class. What I heard from a lot of people is that other professor teaching this class give boring lectures and ask very difficult questions in the tests.

1/23/2009

Total baller! If you do what he asks (show up to class and review section) you will do well. If not you won't do as well. Lectures were for most part very interesting and on current topics. Good guest lectures. Tests are easy but graded extremely hard.

12/19/2008

total waste of a student's time. absolutely horrible lectures..

10/10/2008