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AP Macroeconomics - Handouts

Class Syllabus

Current Event Portfolio Handout

Vocabulary

Various Supplemental Readings

UNIT ONE - Basic Economic Concepts

     Boyes/Melvin Textbook-Chapter 1

     McConnell Textbook-Production Possibility Frontiers

     Boyes/Melvin Textbook-Chapter 3

UNIT TWO - Measuring Economic Performance

     McConnell Textbook-Chapter 7 Measuring Domestic Output & Income

     O'Sullivan Textbook-Chapter 20 Unemployment & Inflation

UNIT THREE - Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply; Fluctuations of Outputs and Prices

     McConnell Textbook-Chapter 9 Basic Macroeconomic Relationships

     McConnell Textbook-Chapter 10 Expenditures Model

     O'Sullivan Textbook-Chapter 23  Aggregate Demand & Aggregate Supply

UNIT FOUR - Money, Monetary Policy, and Economic Stability

     Read Chapter 10 - Money (in Mings Textbook)

     McConnell Textbook-Chapter 14 How Banks and Thrifts Create Money

     McConnell Textbook-Chapter 15 Monetary Policy

UNIT FIVE - Monetary and Fiscal Policy Combinations:  Economic Policy in the Real World

     McConnell Textbook-Chapter 16  Extending the Analysis of Aggregate Supply

     McConnell Textbook-Chapter 17  Economic Growth

     McConnell Textbook-Chapter 18  Deficits, Surpluses, and the Public Debt

     McConnell Textbook-Chapter 19  Disputes Over Macro Theory and Policy

       Economic Schools of Thought - Transperencies used in class

UNIT SIX - The United States in a Global Economy

     McConnell Textbook-Chapter 37  International Trade

     McConnell Textbook-Chapter 38  Exchange Rates, Balance of Payments, etc.

     Absolute/Comparative Advantage Visuals - Transperencies used in class