Took this class in Fall '24. Lanny is super nice and wants his class to learn and think about topics. Attendance mandatory. Go to office hours and make an effort. Feel like it was hard to get a solid A, but A- is attainable if you work hard on your essays. Final essay was long but I enjoyed his lectures, he's got a lot of knowledge and good insight

- mandatory attendance at end of class with roll sheet - random quizzes in the beginning of class to ensure you don't just show up for the roll sheet - quiz material published 23 hrs prior to quiz (he believes getting ahead is bad for the student) - lack of grading transparency - rambles and when isn't rambling, repeats readings verbatim. - liar

He wants you to cite lecture, his rambles that don't have pertinent information on anything about economic history. When he is talking about stuff that's useful it's just exactly what the reading was so why even attend lecture ? Because he makes attendance mandatory. Also, he provides no feedback/reasons on grades, so you can get a C without reason

Professor Ebenstein is a gem in the Econ department! Unique, lecture-based class. If you have an interest in the topics discussed, then the class is fairly engaging and refreshing. You get out what you put in. Decent amount of assigned reading and writing. If you have the opportunity, would recommend taking at least one of his courses!

This guy is the goat.

For the returning Fall2021 quarter he put emphasis on in class pop quizzes as attendance for"push factor"during final grading. So definitely not covid friendly. Took absence of students personally. His TA gives out random B- and B's to keep you in a certain range. Easy A if you skim through the readings and attend. But its -VERY- boring.