Final Blog Post, Traditional Prompt
Before coming into the course, I had not realized that many of the relationships within organizations, as well as between organizations have been studied so heavily within the economic sphere. I had thought that before coming into the course it would’ve been similar to other 400 level courses where it is a singular professor teaching from their own studies as well as studies they had deemed relevant and related to a niche economic field they invested themselves in. I had been surprised by the idea that there were fundamental economic ideas tied into theories and models relevant to both the past as well as present with entire textbooks with references to a wide range of studies. In terms of knowledge about organizations that I had not learned before coming into the course, every phenomena in relationships between organizations that had been later turned into something that could be understood by quantifying it and applying mathematical principles was new. When we had learned about rela...