Course Syllabus

PE -  Principles of Economics - Principles of Economics - openstax

TR -  Principles of Economics - Tregarthen - Rittenberg

 

Week 1 - Week 6:  Reading Material for Exam #1(100ps)  (dates are approximations)

Chapter 1 - Limits, Alternatives, and Choices (1 PE), (1TR)

Chapter 2 - The Market System and the Circular Flow (2PE), (2TR)

Chapter 5 - Market Failures: Public Goods and Externalities (13 PE) (18)

Chapter 16 - Public Finance: Expenditures and Taxes (30PE) (15 TR)

Chapter 24- GDP Analysis - (pages 485 - 492) (19 PE)(21 TR)

Chapter 25 - Economic Growth. (20 PE), (TR 23)

 Mid - Term #1

 

 

Week 7 - Week 10:  Reading Material for Exam #2 - (100pts)

Chapters 24 (497 - 500) -Inflation Analysis (19, 21PE) (20, 32, 31TR)

Chapter 26 - Business Cycles, Unemployment, and Inflation (21,22 PE) (20, 32, 31TR)

Chapter 25 Economic Growth (20PE) (23TR)

Chapter 27 - Basic Macroeconomic Relationships ( 19, 24, 25, 26)PE)  ( 20,32,31 TR)

Chapter 28 - The Aggregate Demand - Aggregate Supply Model (22TR)

Economic Report of the President 2019 - https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ERP-2019.pdf.   (Links to an external site.)

(we will use pages 636-37, 640-41, 662-69, 672, 681, 688, 690)

 Mid - Term #2

 

 

 

Week 11 - Week 15:  Reading Material for Exam #3 (100pts)

Chapter 27 - Basic Macroeconomic Relationships  (PE - 24, 25, 26, 30, 31),(TR - 27, 28, 29)

Chapter 28 - The Aggregate Expenditures Model

Chapter 29 - Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply

Chapter 30 - Fiscal Policy, Deficits, and Debt 

Mid - Term #3

 

 

Mid - Term #Week 16 - Week 17:  Reading Material for Final Exam (160 pts - cumulative exam!!)

Chapter 31 - Money, Banking, and Financial Institutions. (PE - 27, 28), (TR - 24, 25, 26)

Chapter 32 - Money Creation

Chapter 33 - Interest rates and Monetary Policy

Final Examination - Cumulative (160pts)