Week 3 Sunday 2.8.2015

Module 7 Supply and Demand: Changes in Equilibrium

Required Resources: Read Krugman and Wells Module 7

Review Module 7 Slides

Multimedia: Inferring shifts from changes in P & Q http://youtu.be/5_lp-OKF9vo

(Length 13min34sec)

Module 8 Supply and Demand: Price Controls (Ceilings and Floors)

Required Resources: Read Krugman and Wells Module 8

Review Module 8 Slides

Recommended Resources:

Multimedia: http://www.econocast.net/prinmacro/sd-below.html

Multimedia: http://www.econocast.net/prinmacro/sd-above.html

Multimedia: WSJ video on NY City extension of rent control

http://goo.gl/LL72Vx (Length 6min55sec)

Module 42 The Foreign Exchange Market

Required Resources: Read Krugman and Wells Module 42

Required Resources: McCurrencies. (2003, April 24th). The Economist. [pdf]

Review Module 42 Slides

Additional slides on FX Market

Foreign Exchange Slides

Recommended Resources:

Here is a series of Khan Academy Videos on the FX market and Speculative attacks in Asia

Multimedia: http://goo.gl/wkVtXC

Recommended Reading: http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/PPP.html

Active Learning: Exchange Rate Demonstration

Assessment: Complete Quiz#3 By Sunday 2.8.2015 in D2L

 

LEAP Promo: Law Enforcement takes about Supply side tactics in the drug war.

Links

Organ Donation

Organ Donation Wikipedia entry,  National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

Drug War

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

Exchange Rate

Pacific Exchange Rate Service, PPP Wikipedia entry, Big Mac Index