syllabus
Readings:
- Week 1: Why Tech companies hire so many economists?
- Week 2: GDP and the Economy: Second Estimates for the First Quarter of 2025
- Week 3: The Productivity Puzzle
- Week 4: Wait, Is Saving Good or Bad? The Paradox of Thrift
- Week 5: Different Measures of Unemployment
- Week 6: Money and Inflation: A Functional Relationship
- Week 8: Real Exchange Rates: What Money Can Buy？
- Week 9: Supply and Demand Shocks amid Coronavirus
- Week 10: Difference between Fiscal and Monetary Policy
- Week 11: How Economic Education Supports Monetary Policy
- Week 13: Making Sense of the National Debt
Slides:
- Lecture 1
- Lecture 2
- Kahoot! Part A
- Kahoot! Part B
- Lecture 3
- Kahoot! Part A
- Kahoot! Part B
- Lecture 4
- Kahoot! Part A
- Kahoot! Part B
- Lecture 5
- Kahoot! Part A
- Kahoot! Part B
- Lecture 6
- Kahoot! Part A
- Kahoot! Part B
- Lecture 7
- Review Session
- Midterm I
- Lecture 8
- Kahoot! Part A
- Kahoot! Part B
- Lecture 9
- Kahoot! Part A
- Kahoot! Part B
- Lecture 10
- Kahoot! Part A
- Kahoot! Part B
- Lecture 11
- Kahoot! Part A
- Kahoot! Part B
- Lecture 12
- Review Session
- Midterm II
- Lecture 13
- Kahoot! Part A
- Kahoot! Part B
- Lecture 14
- Kahoot! Part A
- Kahoot! Part B
- Review Session (Monday) and Final (Wednesday on the last week in class)
Others:
- What kinds of job you could find with an Econ major?
- In the industry:
- In the Public:
- What Economists Do in Their work?
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