Principle of Macroeconomics, Spring 2024

ECON 2002.01, The Ohio State University, Spring 2024

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Table of Content

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Course Schedule

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Lecture Notes

• Unit 1: The Capitalist Revolution
  • 2022 Finance Rewind - The Crazy Year Behind Us
• Unit 2: Technology, population, and growth
  • How to Read a Topographic Map
  • Wolfram Algebra plotting cost function
• Unit 3: Scarcity, Work and Choice
  • How trail designers build good hikes
• Unit 6: The Firm: Owner, Manager and Employees
• Unit 7: The Firm, Demand Elasticity and Market Competition
  • Deck the Halls with Macro Follies
  • Price Elasticity: Why Airlines Will Never Improve Economy Class
• Unit 9: The Labor Market, Wages, Profits, and Unemployment
• Unit 10: Banks, Money and the Credit Market
  • What is the most equal country on earth?
• Unit 13: Economics Fluctuation, GDP and Unemployment
• Unit 14: Unemployment and Fiscal Policy
• Unit 15: Inflation, Unemployment and Monetary Policy
  • Age of Easy Money (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
  • What’s So Special About 2% Inflation?
• Unit 16: Technological Progress, Unemployment and Living Standards in the Long Run
• Unit 17: Great Depression (core-econ slide)
• Macroeconomics of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Problem Sets

• Problem Set 1: Unit 1 and Unit 2
• Problem Set 2: Unit 3
• Problem Set 3: Unit 6
• Problem Set 4: Unit 7
• Problem Set 5: Unit 9
• Problem Set 6: Unit 10
• Problem Set 7: Unit 13
• Problem Set 8: Unit 14
• Problem Set 9: Unit 15
• Problem Set 10: Unit 16
• Problem Set 11: Unit 17

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