Interesting Reading for Macro Class

Macro Students,
Greetings,
Please refer to the link below to read an Interesting piece by The Economist on growth/recovery of the US Economy. It uses a GDP perspective to measuring growth and provides an interesting analysis...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/04/americas-economy-2

Cheers
Sering

Macro CLass

Macro Students,
Greetings,
please refer to the link below the download the lecture slides for today's class- April 24th.
Quick reminder: We will be having a quiz today!

http://www.mediafire.com/?ab6s0f9c7fn2lrh

See you in class


Cheers
Sering

Micro Class

Micro Class,

Greetings,

please refer to the link below to download the Group Homework and the slides for today's class on Government and Market Failure.

Today's Class

http://www.mediafire.com/?6nxc5xavgfkwtkx

Group Homework Questions:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?841d75809kn88rh

The Group Homework is due on May 4th in Class. All members MUST be present in class to avoid losing marks.

Cheers
Sering.

Principles of Economics 2: Lecture Slides

Macro Students,
Greetings,
please refer to the link below to download the lecture slides for the last class on Money Creation.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ofa2p7od7o14cdw

Cheers
Sering

Principles of Economics 1: Lecture Slides

Micro Students,
Nama naa len,
please refer to the link below to download the lecture slides for today's class- April 16th.

http://www.mediafire.com/?etq17kf41zuu4hy

A lot of you might not be awake at the time I'm making this post, but expect to have a quiz Insha Allah... From now on, expect to write to a quiz every class Insha Allah... #just telling you.

The Mid-term scripts will be distributed in class as well.

Articles for Macro Class

Macro Students,
Greetings,
please refer to the links below to download the articles for the various groups:

Africa Rising- The Economist.
The Sun shines bright The Economist.
Not Enough Inflation by Paul Krugman on the New York Times
Pushing Back Against Austerity by Paul Krugman on the New York Times
Miracle or Mathus The Economist.
Recovery: is it The Aggregate Demand The Economist.

Note about the articles: You should read the articles and summarize them in not more than one page and answer the following questions in another page:
1. What do you think is wrong with the author's argument? Is there a better solution?
2.How does the authors argument ultimately affect GDP or any other macroeconomic variable?
3. What assumptions is the author making? are they valid assumptions?

All responses to the articles must be submitted by e-mail not later than mid-night of May4th 2012.
to sering.touray@gmail.com. penalty for late submissions apply.


If you have any further questions, please shoot me an e-mail or give me a call..
Also, it will great if you can also read the other articles by the other groups. it will do you a lot of good.


Cheers
Sering.

Principles of Economics 2: Lecture Slides

Macro Students,
Greetings,
Welcome back from the short break!
please refer to the links below to download the lecture slides for today's class

Chap9 on Fiscal Policy
Chap10 on Money and Banking

Also, I have gathered a couple of articles on the topics we have done already. Each group will be assigned to an article to do a summary of and answer questions. based on how much time we have, I might ask the groups to do a presentation of the articles...

See you in class today... Insha Allah.

Cheers
Sering

Readings For Macro

Macro Students,
Greetings,
Below are readings which I found pretty interesting and relate very much to our discussions in our recent classes.

Paul Krugman's piece on inflation as a necessity to spur growth in the US economy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/opinion/krugman-not-enough-inflation.html

Here is another piece on austerity- tightening the economy he wrote late March. It relates very much to our current topic on fiscal policy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/opinion/pushing-back-against-austerity.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Pushing%20back%20against%20austerity&st=cse

The readings are very important for your understanding in what we are talking about.. please endeavor to read them...

Cheers
Sering

Group Projects!

Students,
Greetings,
please refer to the links below to download the group project questions... To confirm your respective groups, please talk to your class reps.

Principles of Micro

Principles of Macro

Cheers
Sering