C O U R S E   C A L E N D A R
for
ECON 2030: PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS
S P R I N G   S E M E S T E R   2 0 0 8
10:00 - 10:50 a.m. MWF
Prof. Roger W. Garrison

J A N U A R Y 
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
 
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2
3
4

Unemployment Data
7

 8

Classes begin

9

Math & More
Test your skills!


 10
11

Colander: pp. 123-125
on Price floors

Rev. Britt
and the minimum wage
 
14

JEC Report
on the minimum wage

Two Views
of Goveenment

 5
16

Colander: Chapter 6
on Economic Growth et al. and expecially
pp. 148-156
on unemployment

CPI Data
17
18

Colander: Chapter 7
on National Income Accounting (and the Circllar Flow)
21

MLK
22

 
23

Colander: Chapter 10
on the Multiplier Model
24
25

 
28

Slope & More
(a .pdf flie)
 plus answer sheet
29

FOMC

15th Day of Class
30

FOMC
31

F E B R U A R Y

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday




1

Unemployment Data

Ditch the Keynesians
4

Derivation
of the Investment
Multiplier

5
6


7
8

Derivation of the
Tax Multiplier
11

 Study Problem in Keynesian Macroeconomics
12
13

Theory and Policy
at a Glance
14

 
15




18

1st hour exam
19




 
20

CPI Data
21
22

Colander: Ch. 11
on Money et al. and expecially  pp. 273-289
on Money and the Federal Reserve
25
26
27

Colander: Ch.13:
pp. 340-345
on the Quantity Theory of Money
28

Mid-Semester
(37th  Day of Class)



 29

M A R C H 

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
3

 
4
 5
6
7
Unemployment Data
10

Colander: Chapter 12
on Monetary Policy


11
12
13
14

CPI Data
17

SPRING BREAK
18

SPRING BREAK

FOMC 
19

SPRING BREAK
20

SPRING BREAK

 
21

SPRING BREAK
 24

 The Greenspan Fed
in Perspective
 25
26


27
28

Colander: Ch.13:
pp.  348-352
on the Phillips Curve
31

 





 


 

A P R I L

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
 
1
 
 

 
2

The Trouble
with Keynes

Reich on Keynes

3
4

Unemployment Data
7
2nd hour exam

9
10
11

Business Cycle Theory
14

Colander, p. xii.
(Does Colander have a grasp on the Austrian school?)
15


 
16

CPI Data
17

18

A Classic Hayekian Hangover
21



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24
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28

CLASSES END
29

FOMC

30
Study/Reading
FOMC



M A Y

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday







1
finals
Our Final!!
(9:00 --11:30 am)
2
finals
Unemployment Data

5
 finals


 6
finals
 7
finals
FOMC




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