Online Lectures and Supplementary Readings in Preparation for Exam #2, Spring 2020

Online Lectures

1. Economic Responses to the Coronavirus

2. End of Chapter 4 Lecture

3. Analyzing the Great Depression Using Supply and Demand for the Monetary Base

4. More Analysis of the Great Depression Using Supply and Demand for the Monetary Base

5. The Costs of Inflation

6. Why We Want More Jobs

7. Money and Inflation (Don’t try to watch this all in one sitting. A natural break is when I turn from talking about the takeaways I emphasize to talking about Chapter 5.)

8. Unemployment, etc. (Chapter 7)

9. How Interest Rate Cuts Stimulate the Economy

Relevant Supplementary Readings (you may have read some already)

1. Avoiding Economic Carnage from the Coronavirus: There are Better Policies than Sending Everyone $1000

2. Logarithms and Cost-Benefit Analysis Applied to the Coronavirus Pandemic

3. Supply and Demand for the Monetary Base: How the Fed Currently Determines Interest Rates

4. The Costs of Inflation

5. What Monetary Policy Can and Can't Do

6. Why We Want More Jobs

7. Janet Yellen is Hardly a Dove—She Knows the US Economy Needs Some Unemployment

8. How to Fight Global Warming

9. Why Housing is So Expensive

10. Michael Ostrovsky and Michael Schwarz: Self-Driving Cars, Tolls, and Carpooling are Much More Powerful as a Combination than Separately

Slide Decks

• Chapter 4 slides

• Chapter 5 slides

• Chapter 7 slides