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William Rainey Harper College

MACROECONOMICS!

MACROECONOMICS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

ASSIGNMENTS

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Unit 1 - WHAT IS ECONOMICS and GLOBALIZATION ?

NOTE: Some of the answers in the back of the study guide are WRONG. Corrected answers and page references can be found on the textbook's website or click here.

 

Chapter 1 - The 5Es of Economics

  • Reading Assignments:
    • Chapter 1 ALL (including the appendix "Graphs and Their Meaning")
    • PLUS:
      • Efficient Allocation pp. 56-57
      • Personal Distribution of Income pp. 73-74
      • The online lecture is VERY IMPORTANT: The 5Es of Economics
  • Study Guide
    • Chapter 1:
      • Multiple Choice: # 1-7, 10-12, 14-24
      • Problems: # 4, 5
    • Appendix to Chapter 1:
      • Multiple Choice: # 1, 2, 6, 11, 12 15, 16, 17
      • Problems: # 1a, 1b, 2a, 4
  • Worked Problems: 1.1 and 1.2 @ http://www.mcconnell18e.com
  • Web Quiz at http://www.mcconnell18e.com: ALL questions
  • End-of-Chapter Key Questions: # 1-5, 1-7, 1-10, 1-11, 1-14, appendix 1-7
    [the answers to the key questions can be found on our Blackboard site]

Chapter 2 - Economic Systems and Globalization

  • Reading Assignments:
    • Chapter 2 ALL
    • PLUS
      • pages 2-13 from Chapter 23W of the 16th editon of our textbook found on our Blackboard site
        •  State Ownership and Central Planning: 23W-2 to 23W-3
        •  Problems with Central Planning 23W-3 to 23W-5
        •  The Collapse of the Soviet Economy 23W-5 to 23W-6
        • The Russian Transition to a Market System 23W-6 to 23W-9
        • Market Reforms in China 23W-10 to 23W-11
        • Outcome and Prospects 23W-11 to 23W-13
        • Conclusion 23W-13
      • The Last Word - "Fair Trade Products" pp. 106-107
      • Last Word: "Shuffling the Deck": p. 41
      • The Last Word - "Economic Growth in China": p. 163
      • Global Competition, p. 108
      • The Last Word - "Petition of the Candlemakers, 1845": p. 407
      • http://www.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/eco212i/lectures/command/econsys.htm 
  • Study Guide
    • Multiple Choice: # 1-3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 19-25
    • Problems: # 1, 4 
  • Web Quiz Chapter 2 at http://www.mcconnell18e.com: ALL

Chapter 3 - The Efficiency of Markets: Supply and Demand

Chapters 5 and 20 - TRADE: Specialization and Exchange

Chapter 4 - The Public Sector (Government): Role and Finance

  • Reading Assignments:
    • Chapter 3: Application: Government Set Prices pp. 59-62
    • Chapter 4 only pp. 78-88
  • Study Guide
    • Multiple Choice:
      • Chapter 3: #29, 30
      • Chapter 3 Appendix: #9, 10
      • Chapter 4: # 9-17, 19-25
    • Problems:
      • Chapter 3: #7
      • Chapter 4: # 2, 4
  • Worked Problems at http://www.mcconnell18e.com: #4.1
  • Chapter 4 Web Quiz at http://www.mcconnell18e.com: #2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10
  • End-of-Chapter Key Questions: # 4-9, 4-10, 4-15
    [the answers to the key questions can be found on our Blackboard site]

Unit 2 - INTRODUCTION TO MACROECONOMICS

 Chapter 12 - AS/AD

  • Reading Assignments:
    • Chapter 12 - Agggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand: ALL
    • PLUS:
      • The Business Cycle: pp. 168-170
      • Promoting Stability: p. 81-82
      • Taxation and AS (Supply -Side Economics): pp. 367-368
      • From Short Run to Long Run: pp. 354-361
      • Types of Inflation: pp. 177-178
      • Fiscal Policy: pp. 255-258
  • Study Guide
    • Multiple Choice: # 1-9, 14-20, 22-25
    • Problems: # 1, 2,
  • Web Quiz at http://www.mcconnell18e.com: # 1-6, 8-10
  • End-of-Chapter Key Questions: # 12-4, 12-6, 12-7
    [the answers to the key questions can be found on our Blackboard site]

Chapter 6 - An Introduction to Macroeconomics

  • Reading Assignments:
    • Chapter 6 ALL
    • PLUS:
      • review "Business Cycles": pp. 168-170
      • review "Promoting Stability": pp. 81-82
      • review "Present Choices, Future Possibilities": pp. 17-18
  • Study Guide
    • Multiple Choice:# 1-8, 11-15, 17, 25
    • Problems: 2, 3
  • Web Quiz at http://www.mcconnell18e.com: ALL
  • End-of-Chapter Key Questions: # 6-7
    [the answers to the key questions can be found on our Blackboard site]

Chapter 9 - Unemployment and Inflation

Chapter 7 - Measuring the Economy-

Chapters 8 and Web Chapter 22 - Economic Growth and the Less Developed Countries

Unit 3 - MACROECONOMIC POLICY

Chapters 10 and 13 - Fiscal Policy

  • Reading Assignments:
    • ALL of chapter 10
    • ALL of chapter 13
    • PLUS pp. 367-368 "Taxation and Aggregate Supply"
  • Study Guide
    • Chapter 10:
      • Multiple Choice: ALL
      • Problems: # 1, 4, 5
    • Chapter 13:
      • Multiple Choice: # 1-5, 10, 11-25
      • Problems: # 4, 5
  • Worked Problems 10.1 and 10.2 at http://www.mcconnell18e.com
  • Web Quizzes at http://www.mcconnell18e.com
    • Chapter 10: ALL
    • Chapter 13: # 1, 2, 4-10
  • End-of-Chapter Key Questions: # 10-5a, 10-9, 13-2, 13-3, 13-8, 13-10, 13-13
    [the answers to the key questions can be found on our Blackboard site]

Chapters 14 and 15 - Money and How Banks Create It

  • Reading Assignments:
    • ALL of Chapter 14 and pp. 308-310 from chapter 16
    • ALL of Chapter 15 
  • Study Guide
    • Chapter 14
      • Multiple Choice: # 1-5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15-23
    • Chapter 15
      • Multiple Choice: # 1, 3-25
      • Problems: # 1-4
  • Worked Problems 15.1 and 15.2 at http://www.mcconnell18e.com
  • Web Quizzes at http://www.mcconnell18e.com
    • Chapter 14: 1-4, 6-8, 10
    • Chapter 15: ALL
  • End-of-Chapter Key Questions: # 14-4, 14-8, 15-2, 15-4, 15-8, 15-13
    [the answers to the key questions can be found on our Blackboard site]

Chapter 16 - Monetary Policy

  • Reading Assignment: ALL of chapter 16
  •  Study Guide
    • Multiple Choice: # 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 14 (tricky), 15-30
    • Problems: # 3, 4, 5 (the graph is slightly off).
  • Worked Problem 16.3 at http://www.mcconnell18e.com
  • Web Quiz chapter 16 at http://www.mcconnell18e.com: # 2, 4-9
  • End-of-Chapter Key Questions: # 16-1, 16-2, 16-5
    [the answers to the key questions can be found on our Blackboard site]