Advanced Placement Macroeconomics After studying microeconomics for the first half of the school year students will begin the study of macroeconomics. This class meets Monday through Friday for 53 minutes. In macroeconomics students will study the “bigger picture”. They will look at how a nation measures economic growth and policies aimed at maintaining consistent growth over time. The aggregate demand and aggregate supply model will be used extensively to analyze different economic conditions. From such analysis students will better be able to understand economic events and their impact on the world. Textbook: McConnell, Campbell and Stanley Brue. Economics: Principles, Problems, and thPolicies. Boston: McGraw-Hill Irwin. 15 edition. 2002. Workbook: Morton, John S. and Rae Jean B. Goodman. Advanced Placement rdEconomics, New York: National Council on Economic Education. 3 edition. 2003. Web Tutorials: http://reffonomics.com/reff/index.html Additional readings will be taken from the following. The Wall Street Journal Businessweek Unit 1: Review of basic economic concepts relevant to macroeconomics (5 days) Key Concepts: supply and demand, equilibrium, determinants of demand, determinants of supply, elasticity, economic systems, opportunity cost, scarcity, production possibilities curve, circular flow model (Will be review because students will have covered this material during the first half of the year in the micro ...
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