- At datahub: http://datahub.berkeley.edu/user/jbdelong/tree/ECON-101B
- At bCourses: https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/courses/1471771
Brad DeLong's Office Hours:
Preclass assignments:
- Assessment and Refresher: History and Moral Philosophy Readiness; Mathematical Readiness; Programming Readiness
- Letter to Instructors
- Review of Skidelsky's Keynes: A Very Short Introduction and Keynes's Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren
Highly Optional: Introduction to Technology in Coursework | Textbooks for the 21st Century | Other possible initial orienting readings | Intro to Python on Microsoft Azure
This class is going to be an experiment:
- Revising and transforming the DeLong and Olney textbook for the modern age...
- Lightening the grading load on GSIs...
- Teaching some useful data manipulation (and other data science) tools...
Readings: Textbook (online), Robert Skidelsky (2010): Keynes: A Very Short Introduction http://amzn.to/2FGtsoE, and John Maynard Keynes (1930): Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren http://tinyurl.com/y9k4othx
Textbook: the last edition of Delong and Olney: Macroeconomics http://amzn.to/2rdAL4m: Downloadable:
- http://delong.typepad.com/delong-olney-2nd-ed-chs-1-3.pdf
- http://delong.typepad.com/delong-olney-2nd-ed-chs-4-5.pdf
- http://delong.typepad.com/delong-olney-2nd-ed-chs-6-8.pdf
- http://delong.typepad.com/delong-olney-2nd-ed-chs-9-12.pdf
- http://delong.typepad.com/delong-olney-2nd-ed-chs-13-end.pdf
Course Outline:
Introduction: D&O2 Part 1: chs. 1-3
Pre-class assignments
2018-08-23 Th: Introduction and Python q1
2018-08-29 We: PS 1 Python due http://datahub.berkeley.edu/user-redirect/interact?account=&repo=datahub.berkeley.edu&branch=master&path=notebooks/ECON-101B/Intro%20(Problem%20Set%201)/intro.ipynb
Macroeconomics Brief Intro
Orientation—Who Are You? And What Do You Know?
Doing the Problem Sets
Tools: Analyzing Growth
Data8 Infrastructure Quiz 1
The 21st C Educational Process: Reflections
- iClickers inclass…
- Disrupting the textbook market
- Data Science
- Python
This Is Berkeley!
The Uses of a UniversityPS1: Letter to Instructors | PS2: Keynes: Economic Consequences for Our Grandchildren | PS3: Introduction to Python
Long Run Growth: D&O2 Part 2: chs. 4-5
2018-08-28 Tu: The Solow growth model
2018-08-30 Th: Malthusian economies
2018-09-04 Tu: Escape: two heads are better than one and demographic transition
2018-09-05 We: PS 2 Solow due
2018-09-06 Th: Industrial Revolution and modern economic growth q3
2018-09-11 Tu: Cross-country labor productivity divergence
2018-09-12 We: PS 3 Malthus and escape due
2018-09-13 Th: Joining the postindustrial core? q4
2018-09-18 Tu: Assessing the past and future of economic growth
2018-09-19 We: PS 4 cross-country growth due
2018-09-26 We: PS 5 assessing growth due
Hunters and Gatherers: Background
The Malthusian Agrarian Era
Business Cycles: Flex Prices: D&O2 Part 3: chs. 6-8
2018-09-20 Th: building blocks of the business cycle model q5
2018-09-25 Tu: The flexprice business cycle model
2018-10-03 We: PS 6 flexprice due
Business Cycles: Sticky Prices: D&O2 Part 4: chs. 9-12
2018-09-27 Th: The sticky-price business cycle model: IS curve q6
2018-10-02 Tu: Interest-rate spreads and financial crises
2018-10-04 Th: The Phillips curve q7
2018-10-09 Tu: Inflation expectations
2018-10-10 We: PS 7 IS Curve due
2018-10-11 Th: The monetary policy reaction function q8
2018-10-17 We: PS 8 inflation and monetary policy due due
Business Cycles: Policy: D&O2 Part 5: chs. 13-END
2018-10-16 Tu: The zero lower bound on short safe nominal interest rates and non-standard expansionary policy q9
2018-10-18 Th: Deflation?
2018-10-23 Tu: Hysteresis
2018-10-24 We: PS 9 zero lower bound due due
2018-10-25 Th: Secular stagnation q10
2018-10-30 Tu: Optimal control
2018-10-31 We: PS 10 hysteresis and secular stagnation due
2018-11-01 Th: The burden of the government debt and the fiscal theory of the price level q11
2018-11-06 Tu: Open economies and exchange rate regimes
2018-11-07 We: PS 11 fiscal issues due
2018-11-08 Th: Assessing societal well-being q12
2018-11-13 Tu: Income and wealth inequality: education, trade, and monopoly
2018-11-14 We: PS 12 smorgasbord due
2018-11-15 Th: Income and wealth inequality: the rent-seeking society and the future of work q13
Wrap-Up
2018-11-20 Tu: Article review project
2018-11-22 Th: Thanksgiving
2018-11-27 Tu: Synthesis and review https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0dt8ktpYbjNyBVZ30PM4xjCvw http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/braddelong/LSS18E101b/blob/master/2018-05-01%20%23MRE%20Review%20Intermediate%20Macroeonomics.ipynb
2018-11-29 Th: Q&A
FINAL:
Grading:
- 45 pts.: Final: notes on final
- 45 pts.: 15 problem sets/assignments
- 13 pts.: 13 weekly in-class quizzes
- 12 pts.: iClickers (28 chances for 1/2 pt each)
- 10 pts.: participation (lecture and section)
- A go-faster do-more course: match the average grade to your average grades outside this class
- 2018-01-16 Macroeconomics—Introduction https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0p5hVGtdMX_H_x4Sq6lFpIxoA
- Administrivia https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0GF9zCmc7qpA0ramLb4s2yXrw
- Lecture First Assignments https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0ihD5LNauPK00qVEiHD7BrRzQ
- Lecture- Python
- Lecture- An Educational Experiment https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0Wll-HxD5zGKOWGKlo2t97u5g
- Educational Technologies at Berkeley Today https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0yKJfOMN5SvDtK_K7tjWAstcA
- Textbooks https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0S9l0WhMVdH6_6Z84E8CjPFYg
- Lecture- What Are Macro Issues? https://www.icloud.com/keynote/05EYsmJUxj2UdSrLTedFU9gIw
- Questions- Who Are You? https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0N_3F-xvZ5iUBfzxQlOdp7SnQ
- Lecture- iClicker
- Lecture- Analyzing Growth
- Lecture- Macroeconomics Orientation https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0zqe7L4j_OH1zK3JTPXe0mBeQ
- Post-WWII Basic U.S. Macro Time Series http://www.bradford-delong.com/2018/03/time-series-for-the-most-basic-of-business-cycle-macro-models-what-is-to-be-understood.html
- This File: http://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/macroeconomics.html
- Edit This File: http://www.typepad.com/site/blogs/6a00e551f08003883401b8d2c935d5970c/page/6a00e551f08003883401bb09e8e33d970d/edit
- Course Shoebox: <>
- Teaching Economics: http://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/contents.html