Professor
Daniel Clark
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Most Helpful Review
Winter 2025 - The most difficult yet rewarding class I've ever taken. This class and professor has great potential. Most econ classes at ucla have trivial math that boils down to simple derivatives and algebra. This class explores many of the topics covered in previous micro classes like 101 and 11 but with tougher math. The only completely "new" topics in the class were KKT conditions and value of information problems. The topics were all quite interesting as you get to learn why we use many of the tools we so frequently see in economics and their properties. His problem sets were also very well made (they took us on average 20 hours each), they gave a much deeper understanding of the material and they served as our best resource for mastering it. A few of the problems were unnecessarily difficult however, such as PS1 q1, PS3 3b and 4b. Professor Clark was extremely willing to help students when possible. On top of his weekly office hours we held multiple other impromptu office hours and an additional one before the final exam. On average he was probably holding office hours for 10 hours every week, which for a professor is insane. When he showed up on time and wasn't rushing through the lecture, things felt clear and understandable. Overall this course does prepare you well for a graduate degree in economics by giving you a taste of what its really like (unlike other econ classes here). I'd definitely recommend this class to anyone interested.
Winter 2025 - The most difficult yet rewarding class I've ever taken. This class and professor has great potential. Most econ classes at ucla have trivial math that boils down to simple derivatives and algebra. This class explores many of the topics covered in previous micro classes like 101 and 11 but with tougher math. The only completely "new" topics in the class were KKT conditions and value of information problems. The topics were all quite interesting as you get to learn why we use many of the tools we so frequently see in economics and their properties. His problem sets were also very well made (they took us on average 20 hours each), they gave a much deeper understanding of the material and they served as our best resource for mastering it. A few of the problems were unnecessarily difficult however, such as PS1 q1, PS3 3b and 4b. Professor Clark was extremely willing to help students when possible. On top of his weekly office hours we held multiple other impromptu office hours and an additional one before the final exam. On average he was probably holding office hours for 10 hours every week, which for a professor is insane. When he showed up on time and wasn't rushing through the lecture, things felt clear and understandable. Overall this course does prepare you well for a graduate degree in economics by giving you a taste of what its really like (unlike other econ classes here). I'd definitely recommend this class to anyone interested.
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