Week 8: Fiscal Policy

Week 8 Sunday 10.19.2014

Module 21 Fiscal Policy and the Multiplier

Required Resources: Read Krugman and Wells Module 21

Review Module 21 Slides

Active Learning: Budget Deficits and Fiscal Policy

Module 22 Saving, Investment, and the Financial System

Required Resources: Read Krugman and Wells Module 22

Review Module 22 Slides

Module 23 Definition and Measurement of Money

Required Resources: Read Krugman and Wells Module 23

Radford, R. A. (1945). The Economic Organisation of a P.O.W. Camp. Economica. [pdf]

Review Module 23 Slides

Module 24 The Time Value of Money

Required Resources: Read Krugman and Wells Module 24

Review Module 24 Slides

Here is a series of Khan Academy Videos on the time value of money

Multimedia:http://goo.gl/lPWIhP

Active Learning: Medium of exchange experiment?

Multimedia: http://econblog.aplia.com/2006/08/how-to-cure-inflation.html?showComments=false

Assessment: Quiz #8 Due Monday 10.19.2014 in D2L

Reading

Required Radford, R. A. (1945). The Economic Organisation of a P.O.W. Camp. Economica. [pdf]  

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu2uJWSZkck

Humorous - if inaccurate view of QE2 [video]

Practice

Assessment

 

 

Lecture Slides

fiscal policy; ch 15;