AP Macroeconomics - Handouts
Current Event Portfolio Handout
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