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UCB Online Schedule of Classes: Search Results: 3-DEC-07, Spring 2008
ECONOMICS
22579 P 101B 001 LEC MW 8-9A 247 CORY Economic Theory--Macro 4 DELONG, J B
22582 S 101B 101 DIS MW 8-9A 237 CORY Economic Theory--Macro
22585 S 101B 102 DIS WF 11-12P 61 EVANS Economic Theory--Macro
This is a go-faster do-more course--intended for people who would be bored in Economics 100b. (And, I think, not nearly enough people take it.)
Notes to self:
- Daily index card feedback--what was confusing/boring/interesting about today...
- Weekly web assignments--largely using spreadsheets...
Weekly problems sets (10)--due at start of Friday lecture...
MW lectures--spend them on theory and tools
F lectures--spend them on current events
W sections... do problems like those on the next problem set
- FM sections... go over last problems and clean-up from the destruction and unclarity left by the previous week's lecture
Grading:
- Exams
- Early professorial reality check exam...
- Pre-spring break core theory exam...
- Late applications exam...
- (Short) final to be thought of as a makeup or recovery exam...
- Points
- 101 points in all
- 2 points per problem set x 10 = 20
- 1 point per web assignment x 10 = 10
- 1/4 point per index card x 40 = 10
- 10 points for section participation
- 51 points for exams
Proposed Schedule
Introduction
W Jan 23: INTRODUCTION: The Problems of Macroeconomics
- Case Study: The Federal Reserve, August 2007-December 2007
- Macroeconomics, 1-3
Theory (with Examples and Illustrations)
The Long Run: Economic Growth
F Jan 25: The Solow Model: Capital and Equilibrium
M Jan 28: The Solow Model: Dynamics and Feedback
W Jan 30: How Much of Today's World Can We Explain with the Solow growth model?
F Feb 1: What happened this week in the macroeconomy?
M Feb 4: From Malthus to Modernity: Understanding the Industrial Revolution
- Macroeconomics, review 5.1
- Notes: Industrial Revolutions
- Explorations in the Theory of Economic Growth](http://delong.typepad.com/print/20060905_lecture_notes.pdf)
W Feb 6: Technology
F Feb 8: What happened this week in the macroeconomy?
M Feb 11: Institutions
W Feb 13: Resources
F Feb 15: PROFESSORIAL REALITY CHECK EXAM
The Medium Run: Economic Fluctuations with Flexible Prices
W Feb 20: Components of Aggregate Demand
F Feb 22: Full-Employment Equilibrium
M Feb 25: The International Side--Plus Government Budgets and Investment Booms
- Macroeconomics, review 6.3, review 7.5
W Feb 27: The Monetary Side: The Quantity Theory of Money, Inflation, and Expectations
F Feb 29: What happened this week in the macroeconomy?
The Short Run: Economic Fluctuations with Sticky Prices
M Mar 3: Sticky Prices and Aggregate Demand
W Mar 5: The IS Curve and Employment
- Reading: Macroeconomics, 10 including 10a
F Mar 7: What happened this week in the macroeconomy?
M Mar 10: The Phillips Curve and Inflation
- Macroeconomics, 12, including 12a (optional: 11)
W Mar 12: Tying Up the Short-Run and the Medium Run
F Mar 14: What happened this week in the macroeconomy?
M Mar 17: Loose Ends
- Notes: Core Theory Loose Ends
W Mar 18: CORE THEORY EXAM
Applications (with Additional Theory)
Domestic Monetary and Fiscal Policies
M Mar 31: Stabilization Policy since WWII
- Macroeconomics, review 10.3, review 12.4, 13, 14.1, 16.1-16.4
W Apr 2: Should Conservatives Be Central Bankers?
F Apr 4: What happened this week in the macroeconomy?
M Apr 7: Looking Back at the Great Depression: What Went So Wrong?
- Macroeconomics, 16.3, 16.5
- Notes on the Great Depression
- Notes on Liquidity Traps
W Apr 9: Is There a Political Business Cycle?
- Macroeconomics, review 13.6
F Apr 11: What happened this week in the macroeconomy?
M Apr 14: U.S. Long-Run Budget Balance
W Apr 16: "Fixing" Social Security
F Apr 18: What happened this week in the macroeconomy?
Growth and Distribution
M Apr 21: Productivity Speed-Ups and Slow-Downs
W Apr 23: U.S. Income Distribution
- Notes: American Income Distribution
F Apr 25: What happened this week in the macroeconomy?
M Apr 28: European Youth and Structural Unemployment
- Macroeconomics, 16.5
- Notes: The Western European Macroeconomy
Domestic and International Finance
W Apr 30: "Animal Spirits": Understanding the Stock and Real Estate Markets
F May 2: What happened this week in the macroeconomy?
M May 5: Global Imbalances
W May 7: APPLICATIONS EXAM
Summary and Review
F May 9: What happened this week in the macroeconomy?
M May 12: FINAL REVIEW
Th May 15: FINAL EXAM 8-11
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