2019 Syllabus and Additional Readings and Exercises
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On Writing and the Writing Assignments
A few of the posts linked at Student Guest Posts on supplysideliberal.com 1/22
On Having a Thesis 1/22
Brio in Blog Posts 1/22
On Reading and Learning
The Most Effective Memory Methods are Difficult—and That's Why They Work 1/17
There's One Key Difference Between Kids Who Excel at Math and Those Who Don't 1/17
Chapter 1—The Science of Macroeconomics
Chapter 2—The Data of Macroeconomics
The Logarithmic Harmony of Percent Changes and Growth Rates 1/20
The Shape of Production: Charles Cobb's and Paul Douglas's Boon to Economics 2/6
Growth Rates and the Rule of 70 (.doc download)
Chapter 3—National Income: Where It Comes From and Where It Goes
Returns to Scale and Imperfect Competition in Market Equilibrium 2/11
Why Taxes are Bad 2/13
Can Taxes Raise GDP? 2/13
Chapter 4—The Monetary System: What It Is and How It Works
Chapter 5—Inflation: Its Causes, Effects and Social Costs
Chapter 6—The Open Economy
Chapter 7—Unemployment and the Labor Market
Chapter 8—Economic Growth I: Capital Accumulation and Population Growth
Chapter 9—Economic Growth II: Technology, Empirics and Policy
One of the Biggest Threats to America's Future Has the Easiest Fix
Restoring American Growth: The Video (Please watch the whole thing by 4/27/18—you need this material to tackle a question on the practice exam. Watching this video counts as a makeup class.)
Chapter 10—Introduction to Economic Fluctuations
How Subordinating Paper Currency to Electronic Money Can End Recessions and End Inflation
Wonkblog Interview by Dylan Matthews: Can We Get Rid of Inflation and Recessions Forever?
Gather ’round, Children, Here’s How to Heal a Wounded Economy
Monetary vs. Fiscal Policy: Expansionary Monetary Policy Does Not Raise the Budget Deficit
How and Why to Avoid Mixing Monetary Policy and Fiscal Policy
Alexander Trentin Interviews Miles Kimball on Next Generation Monetary Policy
Optional: The pictures and videos in the aggregator post "How and Why to Eliminate the Zero Lower Bound: A Reader’s Guide" may help you.