Course Schedule & Links to Take-Home Lectures
Principles of Macroeconomics
17th Edition Textbook version for Fall Semester 2008
Click on the underlined unit numbers for detailed unit outlines & presentations. 

Unit
Chapter(s)
 Topics
one
1
2

Orientation Quiz open thru August 31, Sunday
Economic Goals, Questions, and Systems
Scarcity, Choices, Trade-Offs, and Economic Models
Circular Flows Model
Quiz on Chapters 1&2 open thru August 31, Sunday
two
3

Demand & Supply and Shifts in Demand & Supply
Demand Quiz, Supply Quiz, Market Quiz ALL open thru Sept. 14, Sunday
three
4: up to p.71 
2: pp. 37-41

Pure Private Sector Capitalism:  The "Invisible Hand" at Work
Private and Public Sectors
Invisible Hand Quiz open thru Sept. 21, Sunday
four
4: pp.71-80

28

Private and Public Sectors:  Market Intervention by Government
Public Goods, Externalities, and Information Problems
Public Choice Theory: Market Failure, Government, and Public-Sector (Government) Failure
Market Failures Quiz open thru Sept. 28, Sunday
five
29
 Tax Structures & Taxes:  Who Funds Government Operations?
NOTE: You need not read "Tax Incidence and Efficiency Loss" pp. 573-576
                   -start reading again at "Probable Incidence of U.S. Taxes", p. 576
Tax & Tax Structures Quiz open thru October 5, Sunday
EXAM 1
all above
Exam 1 Available: Monday, Oct. 6 thru Sunday, October 12
six
6
 Macroeconomic Measures of Performance
seven
7

Business Cycles, Unemployment, and Inflation
Macromeasures Mega-Quiz open thru October 26, Sunday

Paper 1

units 6 & 7
+
chapters 6 & 7
Start Quality of Life Research & Writing Assignment: Due as posting on Discussion Board by Nov. 3, Monday
eight
8 & 9
 Propensities and the Aggegate Expenditures Model
Leakages and Injections:  Equilibrium in the Macroeconomic Sense
Multiplier Quiz and MacroTerminology Quiz both open thru November 2, Sunday
nine
10
 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
Aggregate Demand/Aggregate Supply Quiz 1 open thru Nov. 9, Sunday
ten
Easter Island:
Scary Parable
 Aggregate Supply & Resource Use Sustainability
Aggregate Demand/Aggregate Supply Quiz 2 open thru Nov. 9, Sunday
eleven
Ch. 11
pp.208-211 only
Fiscal Policy:  The Multiplier Mechanics
Fiscal Policy Quiz open thru Nov. 9, Sunday
EXAM 2
Reading & presentations of
units 6-11
Exam 2 Available: Nov. 17, Monday thru Nov. 23, Sunday
twelve
11 pp.212-226

Problems, Criticisms, and Complications of Fiscal Policy
Deficits, Surpluses, and the Public Debt
Practical Fiscal Policy Quiz open thru Nov. 23, Sunday
thirteen
12
Money & Banking
Money & Banking Basics Quiz open thru Nov. 30, Sunday
fourteen
13
The Deposit Expansion Process & The Money Multiplier
fifteen
14
 Monetary Policy
Monetary Policy Quiz open thru December 7, Sunday
EXAM 3
Reading & presentations of units 12-15
 Exam III Available: December 7, Monday thru December 14, Sunday