Syllabus

IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU READ THE SYLLABUS.

“YOU GOTTA DO IT, YOU GOTTA READ IT.” -SNOOP DOG.

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Textbook

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Link to text book.

eLearning Content

The buttons will navigate you to a page containing the previous weeks interactive lectures, lab assignments with solutions, and quizzes with immediate feedback. The previous content will be posted Thursday of the week for which the content was covered in class. The current weeks content will be posted on Moodle the Thursday before we cover the content in class.

Module 1. The Syllabus and the economy

Unit 1. The Big Picture

Module 2. Economic decision making, a single actor.

Unit 2. Choosing a technology with given factor prices
Unit 3. Working hours

Module 3. Economic relationships and interactions.

Unit 4. Strategic interactions
Unit 6. Employment relationship

Module 4. Markets

Unit 7. Firm producing a differentiated good
Unit 9. Labor market
Unit 10. Credit market

Module 5. The aggregate economy in the short and medium run.

Unit 13. Economic fluctuations and aggregate demand
Unit 14. Fiscal policy and employment
Unit 15. Monetary policy, unemployment, and inflation.

Module 6. Application of the model.

Unit 17. One hundred years of economic history from the Great Depression to the global financial crisis.