Syllabus
Fall 2010. Section 05, MWF 10:45 - 11:35 PDF
Assignments
Instructions: Each of the assignments is due at the corresponding time and date specified below. You can submit your answers anytime before the due date, but submit only once. Feel free to print the assignment and work through the problems offline or visit the website as many times as your want. However, answers have to be submitted all at once. I will be posting the answers to the assignments after the due date, so I would suggest you to write down your answers to be able to compare them later on. Make sure you spell your name correctly, starting with your last name and then your first name. For example: Gonzales, Jorge.
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| Assignment 1 | Go to assignment 1 | Monday, September 20 at 11:45 p.m. | |
| Assignment 2 | Go to assignment 2 | Wednesday, September 29 at 10:00 a.m. | |
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| Assignment 3 | Go to assignment 3 | Monday, October 25 at 11:45 p.m. | |
| Assignment 4 | Go to assignment 4 | Monday, November 1 at 10:00 a.m. | |
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| Extra Points Assignment | Go to assignment | Wednesday, November 17 at 10:00 a.m. | |
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| Assignment 5 | Go to assignment 5 | Wednesday, November 24 at 10:00 a.m. | |
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| Assignment 6 | Go to assignment 6 | Friday, December 10 at 10:00 a.m. |
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Exams
Instructions: You will be having the second exam on Wednesday, November 3 during class time. You will have 50 minutes to complete about 35 to 40 multiple choice questions. Bring a scranton Form No. 882-E (green scranton), two pencils and an eraser. You can bring a basic calculator, but you may not need it. Mobile phones or any other form of electronic equipment will not be allowed.
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The following article (click here) appeared on 11/03/2010 in the New York Times. This is an example of the open market operations we saw in class (Chapter 16): The Fed buys bonds to increase the money supply to spur economic growth!
The following article (click here) appeared on 11/10/2010 in the New York Times. It shows the Government's efforts to reduce trade imbalances (Chapter 18).
Power Point Presentations
| Mankiw Chapter | |
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| Topic 1 | Ten Principles of Economics |
| Topic 2 | Thinking Like an Economist |
| Topic 3 | Interdependence and the the Gains from Trade |
| Topic 4 | The Market Forces of Supply and Demand |
| Topic 5 | Elasticity and Its Application |
| Topic 6 | Supply, Demand, and Government Policies |
| Topic 7 | Consumers, Producers, and the Efficiency of Markets |
| Topic 8 | The Costs of Taxation |
| Topic 9 | Application: International Trade |
| Topic 10 | Measuring a Nation’s Income |
| Topic 11 | Measuring the Cost of Living |
| Topic 12 | Production and Growth |
| Topic 13 | Savings, Investment, and the Financial System |
| Topic 15 | Unemployment |
| Topic 16 | The Monetary System |
| Topic 17 | Money, Growth and Inflation |
| Topic 18 | Open-Economy: Macroeconomics: Basic Concepts |
| Topic 19 | A Macroeconomic Theory of the Open Economy |
| Topic 20 | Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply |
| Topic 21 | The Influence of Monetary and Fiscal Policy on Aggregate Demand |
| Topic 22 | The Short-Run Trade-off between Inflation and Unemployment |