ECON102 (2024.B.01): Resources | Saylor Academy

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COURSE INTRODUCTION

Course Syllabus

Unit 1: What is Macroeconomics?

1.1: The Economic Way of Thinking

1.2: Scarcity and Production Choices

1.3: The Production Possibilities Curve

1.4: Opportunity Cost

1.5: Demand, Supply, and Market Equilibrium

1.6: Market Equilibrium

1.7: Price Ceilings and Price Floors

1.8: Labor and Financial Markets

Unit 1 Assessment

Unit 2: Gross Domestic Product, Inflation, and Unemployment

2.1: Defining GDP

2.2: Defining Business Cycles

2.3: Economic Growth

2.4: Real GDP and Nominal GDP

2.5: Defining Inflation

2.6: Unemployment

Unit 2 Assessment

Unit 3: Aggregate Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium

3.1: Aggregate Demand

3.2: Aggregate Supply

3.3: Aggregate Supply in the Short-Run and the Long-Run

3.4: Short-Run and Long-Run Macroeconomic Equilibrium

Unit 3 Assessment

Unit 4: Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy

4.1: Money

4.2. Creation of Money

4.3: Structure and Powers of the Federal Reserve System

4.4: Financial Markets

Unit 4 Assessment

Unit 5: Fiscal Policy

5.1: Fiscal Policy

5.2: The Impact of Government Borrowing

5.3: Inflation and Unemployment

5.4: The Keynesian Perspective

5.5: The Neoclassical Perspective

Unit 5 Assessment

Unit 6: International Trade and Finance

6.1: International Trade and Capital Flows

6.2: Macroeconomic Policy around the World

6.3: International Trade

6.4: Globalization and Protectionism

Unit 6 Assessment

Study Guide

Course Feedback Survey

Certificate Final Exam

Saylor Direct Credit