Before Class on Tuesday, 03/16
Watch (14:27) – Blumberg (2013)
Read – Lumen Learning: Macroeconomics (from Module 15: “Absolute and Comparative Advantage” & “Comparative Advantage and Gains from Trade”)
Before Class on Thursday, 03/18
Have tried or completed all of Weekly Review 5
Before Class on Tuesday, 03/09
Read – Moore (2020)
Watch (6:39) – Khan (2014)
Read (ppt slides) – Eisenbarth (2021) – Consumption & Savings
Before Class on Thursday, 03/11
Have tried or completed all of Weekly Review 4
Before Class on Tuesday, 03/02
Read – Amadeo (2020)
Read (instagram slides) – @comradecloset (2019)
In Class
Gould (2021) – EPI Jobs and Unemployment
Before Class on Thursday, 03/04
There is NO WEEKLY REVIEW this week
In Class
DUE: Question Building exercise
GDP Worksheet – Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Before Class on Tuesday, 02/23
Read – Lumen Learning: Macroeconomics
Module 6: Macroeconomic Measures – What is Gross Domestic Product? and Calculating GDP
Watch (17:42) – Pheko (2020)
In Class
(In Class) Slides – Economic Well-Being
Fed Reserve of Dallas – Deflating Nominal Values to Real Values
Cassidy (2020) – Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth?
Before Class on Thursday, 02/25
Have tried all of Weekly Review 3
Before class Tuesday, 02/16
Read 10.1 in CORE
Read – Irungu (2020)
Watch (6:51) – Schamus (2014)
In Class Article:
Elon Musk offers money to help Dogecoin become the ‘currency of the internet’
Before class Thursday, 02/18
have tried all of Weekly Review 2
Before Class on Tuesday 02/09
Watch (7:15) – Shaikh (2020)
Read (Instagram Slides) – @sywtta (2020)
Read (slides) – Eisenbarth (2020) – Argumentation
Before Class on Thursday 02/11
Have tried or completed all questions from Weekly Review 1
Links from In Class (you do not need to watch these on your own, they are just here for your reference if you want them):
No readings outside of class & no assignments
For you to do:
create your OpenLab account and become a member of our OpenLab course
sign up for Reading Summaries
Tuesday 02/02
in class:
(In Class) Slides – What is Economics?
(In Class) Watch (3:19) – Chang (2019)
Thursday 02/04
in class:
TBD
Optional:
Watch (11:20) – Chang (2016)
An approximation of what to expect every week.
Tuesday (75 minutes total)
Before class: students will have already read/listened to/watched material for the week
Reading Summaries (10min)
Students Present Readings
Group Discussion (15 min)
Students discuss readings together
Reflection on key terms (15 min)
Current Issues (30 min)
Read related article
Group Discussion
Review of Key Concepts (5 min)
Thursday (75 minutes total)
Before class: students will have already finished or attempted the Weekly Review
Weekly Review (45 min)
Grade and correct weekly assignment together
Review of Key Concepts (15 min)
Introduction of Next Week’s Material (10 min)
Author introductions
Suggestions for attention
Check Out (5 min)
Review upcoming work
Note that on Question Building Weeks, we will not have a Weekly Review so that time on Thursday will be replaced with a Question Building activity.
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