Lectures are difficult to follow and Paper grading is confusing. Make sure you discuss immediately after class if you have any issue, for he might not email back if after a follow-up. This is a philosophy course instead of an economics-related. Kinda disappointed after taking this course after seeing other comments.

He is mostly interested in historical style essays more than analytical. Attendance was 50% of your grade

All his classes follow the same structure There are 4 aspects to grading 1 Attendance 2 Quizzes are random & sometimes announced - they are 4 questions MC and T/F always based on the daily read 3 Write-Ups based on the lecture material 4 Research papers 2500-3000 words 7 sources. Go to class, take notes and read. Amazing Prof and easy A if you try.

Ebensteins classes all follow a very specific and predictable pattern and getting an A in one is as easy as memorizing the following: do the readings and go to class. Doing those 2 things will give you ALL the information you need to do every write up (3 in the whole course) and give you so many paper topic ideas (2 in the course.). Great professor

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.

The professor could do better in making the class interesting: His lectures are somewhat disorganized, and the lack of ppt presentation made it hard to review key material. The worst part of this course is the TA, who grade everything. My TA always procrastinated and lack the skills needed to grade the write-ups properly. Don't take the course.

Professor Ebenstein is a charming instructor. People interested in history (and hating math) will surely find their interest in his lectures. However, the homework grading by TAs is remarkably slow. They don't give you any reasons for getting a low score. Please give this extraordinary professor more TAs.

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.

super nice and interesting guy! lots of reading and 500 word weekly writing assignments. 2 papers, 2500 words, and a written final. honestly you can skim the readings and do well, no section, lectures can get boring and rambly but he's great about answering questions in OH and is very accommodating. kind of feels like a history class!

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.