Session: 6W2

Appropriate for First Year students.

TimeDaysLocationInstructorGERCreditOPUS Class NumberSyllabus (Tentative)
10:00am-11:20am
M-F
Candler Library 124
Wemy, Edouard. HSC. 41034 TBA.

June 27, 2011- August 03, 2011

Catalog Description: Prerequisite: Economics 101. Covers current debates on the workings of the aggregate economy, including unemployment, inflation, economic growth, the national debt, financial markets, money and the banking system, and international trade.

Semester Details:

Some basic questions we will try to answer in this course are:  the meaning of gross domestic product, measurement of cost of living, determinants of the large variation in livingstandards, allocation of financial resources, long-run determinants of the unemployment rate, the long run behavior of money and prices,the relationship among saving, investment and the trade balance, the distinction between nominal and real exchange rates, how policymakerscan use the tools at their disposal to change the macroeconomic variables, and why policymakers who control aggregate demand face a trade-off between inflation and unemployment.

Required Textbooks, Articles, and Resources

  1. Mankiw, N. Gregory. Principles of Macroeconomics.
    ISBN: 0324589999.
    5th Edition - South-Western College Pub.

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