I hated his lectures. He always went at a break neck speed and never gave anyone enough time to copy down his notes. Then, he would get really nervous and start talking really fast about random 'economic stories' to fill up his time while we were furiously writing--of course, no one could pay attention to what he was saying but he put that stuff on the test anyway. His class isn't impossible but the lectures are demoralizing...study on your own and do the problem sets. He's a nice guy but he drove me insane!

His lectures go so quick that you don't even have time to take notes on what he's saying. You must read the material before class or you won't be able to follow his lectures because he doesn't really stop to explain things clearly. What can I say about his exams? They're loooooooong. He structured it like that to make sure you have know the material right off the bat and don't have enough time to think or re-check your answers. Oh yeah, and half of it is short answer essay questions.

I went in to this class thinking Brown would totally easy. Although I think he is a good teacher, he is definitely not easy. The pace was fast, which is necessary for a class of this type. If you go to lecture and read the book, you should be fine. His tests are rather difficult; I really tried and I still only got an A- in the class--every point matters.

Brown taught a very important lesson in Economics... that by setting a system of prices, the people who need the goods most will get those goods. Brown's curve is awesome. It really is a direct reflection of how much time you put into the class. He posted an incentive that the top 20% for the final will get the A-, and if that doesn't spur competition, I don't know what else does. An earlier review called for the "mastery" of the material. And to a certain extent, the knowledge in this course is really important, since Econ majors will only have 102 as their other knowledge base of MacroEcon. Brown went fast, but if you got it, you got it... And that's the important thing, right?

Brown isn't that bad. While he does go through lecture incredibly fast, 99% of the stuff he talks about is in the book. His tests aren't that hard, and his curve is pretty lenient (20% get A's, another 35% get B's). also, make sure you study the problem sets he posts on the website. The exam questions are a lot like them.

Brown is a very intelligent professor and it's evident that he feels passionately about econ (very lecture he throws in a comment about the recent issue of "The Economist"); however, he does not clearly convey the concepts to his students. I guess he expects his students to already have a full gasp on the subject before coming to class. He doesn't understand that econ 2 is an introductory course and for the most part we go in not knowing much or nothing @ all. Hence, he lectures REALLY fast and for the most part his lectures are vague overviews of the topics, but expect to absolutely MASTER the topics on your own going into the exams...he'll ask questions about the footnotes and appendix on top of his lectures, book chapters, and outside research about current economic conditions. He is only a part-time prof (he's full-time @ cal poly pomona) so he's not easily availiable outside of class. If you decide to take him for econ, i suggest bringing your book to class and taking notes in it, most of his lectures are slides of the figures and tables in the book, it'll help to take notes directly next to the relevent graphs, so when you go back and review you'll remember what he was talking about. The problem sets that he posts on-line are VERY VERY important, i cannot stress that enough, if you are planning on excel in the course, MEMORIZE them! The some of same questions will appear on the exams.