Week 1: August 28, 30
Chapter 1 Ten Principles of Economics
Chapter 2 Thinking Like an Economist
Chapter 3 Interdependence and the Gains from Trade
Week 2: September 4, 6
Chapter 4 The Market Forces of Supply and Demand
Chapter 5 Measuring a Nation's Income
Week 3: September 11, 13 + Extraordinary make-up class Friday, September 15
Chapter 6 Measuring the Cost of Living
Chapter 7 Production and Growth
Week 4: September 18, 20, 22
Exam 1: Wednesday, September 20: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Chapter 8: Savings, Investment and the Financial System
Week 5: September 25, 27
Chapter 9: The Basic Tools of Finance
Week 6: October 2, 4
No class Monday, October 2
Exam 2: Wednesday, October 4: Chapters 7, 8 and 9.
Week 7: October 9, 11
Chapter 10: Employment
Chapter 11: The Monetary System
Week 8: October 16, 18
Chapter 12 Money, Growth and Inflation
Week 9: October 23, 25
Chapter 16: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
Week 10: October 30
Chapter 17: The Influence of Monetary and Fiscal Policy on Aggregate Demand
Week 11: November 6, 8
Exam 3, Monday, November 6:Chapters 10, 11, 12, 16
Chapter 15: Keynes and IS-LM Analysis
Week 12: November 13, 15
Chapter 13: Open-Economy Macroeconomics: Basic Concepts
Chapter 14: A Macroeconomic Theory of the Open Economy - (China, globalization, capital flight)
Week 13: November 20, 22
Chapters 19 Financial Crisis
Week 14: November 27, 29
Chapter 20 Common Currency Areas and Monetary Union
Week 15: See University Schedule for date and time of the final exam which is comprehensive