The professor rambles on and on about random events that sometimes relate to economic history. It's kind of interesting as a podcast, but you have to do a 500 word write up every week. No one knows how the write up is graded, but the TA's give out 70s to 80s on random write ups with no explanation. Theres also two 2500 essays. Stay away.

Ebenstein is a pretty chill guy but his class is pretty disorganized. Most of his lectures are just him talking for an hour and he seems to get off topic a lot. His assignments are vague but they're not too hard.

He's a chill prof, accessible after the lecture if you want to discuss with him. Weekly 2 page paper and two-term papers so the workload is not terrible. Lot's of interesting ideas and his book is very accessible to those that do not read many econ books. Can sometimes be disorganized, but who isn't during the 'rona? Great for non-mathy econ peeps

Lectures are very disorganized over zoom. He's very smart but sometimes rambles on about a particular topic. We get weekly writing assignments the TA's barely grade. Every week I get the same exact grade no matter how much work I put in. Definitely would not recommend during rona as the class is very disorganized

If you are a "normal" econ student (likes math, numbers, equations), DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. If you're someone like me who hates Econ as it's normally taught and wants to know about policy, history, and how econ has actually developed and works in the real world, TAKE THIS CLASS. Ebenstein is a weird, eccentric breath of fresh air. Love this guy.

Ebenstein is the most boring lecturer I've ever had to listen to. He just rambles for an hour straight with no structure to his lectures. To make it worse, his lectures have nothing to do with the 2200 word research essayS we have to write for him. He just makes us tune in to indoctrinate us with his unfounded beliefs about random stuf. Don't take.

foo is mad boring

MWF at 8am was rough, especially with pop quizzes. Pretty predictable when they will come, often Fridays. Just skim the readings and you will be fine. Doesn't grade too hard and is a nice guy

Ebenstein is a great guy and really cares about what he teaches. He'll often touch on current events and isn't afraid to give his opinion, while acknowledging that others may feel differently. I have definitely taken a lot more from this class than others.