William Rainey Harper College ECO 212 Macroeconomics in the Global Economy

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ANNOUNCEMENTS : Last Few Weeks of Class UNIT 2 REVIEW: click here for web page click here to download MS Word .DOC Article on Structural Adjustment: http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/02/10/us/us.5.html COURSE DESCRIPTION Almost every day we hear news reports of economic problems and successes from around the world. All over the world, countries are undertaking economic reforms (often called STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT POLICIES) that their leaders believe will provide their citizens with lower unemployment and higher living standards. This course will cover the area of economics commonly defined as macroeconomics. The main goal of macroeconomics is to gain a better understanding of the causes of, and remedies for, UNEMPLOYMENT and INFLATION, as well as the factors that affect ECONOMIC GROWTH. We will study these macroeconomic issues in an international context to try to understand the economic reforms many countries are undertaking.

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INSTRUCTOR: Mark L. Healy

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