Stephen Kinsella
Economist at the University of Limerick
EC4004, Economics for Business 2016
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Economic Reasoning Assignment
Lecture Notes. Links go live a day or two before the lecture itself.
Lecture by lecture breakdown, following sections and sub-sections in Bowles, Foley and Halliday (BFH) and Carlin and Soskice (CS)
| Week 1
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Lecture 1. Introduction, expectations, prerequisites, assessment details, and policies, Review of Basic Micro & Macro concepts from 1st year.
Lecture 2. Society, Social coordination problems, the fisherman’s dilemma. (BFH, 1.1-1.4) |
| Week 2 | Lecture 3. Society, Social coordination problems, Pareto comparisons and efficiency, social coordination failures (BFH, 1.5-1.7).
Lecture 4. People and Preferences. (BFH, 2.1-2.4). The Investor & Public Games |
| Week 3 | Tutorials Begin.
Lecture 5. Constrained optimisation (BFH, 3.1-3.4) Feasible frontiers & indifference curves. Lecture 6. Constrained optimisation (BFH, 3.5-3.8) Price and offer curves. |
| Week 4 | Lecture 7. Property and Exchange (BFH, 5.1-5.2). Allocations, The Edgeworth Box.
Lecture 8. Property and Exchange (BFH, 5.3-5.5). Institutions and power. Book Review Due Friday of Week 4 by 5pm on Turnitin |
| Week 5 | Lecture 9: Coordination failures (BFH, 6.2-6.7)
Lecture 10. Specialisation, exchange, market demand (BFH, 7.1-7.3) |
| Week 6 | Lecture 11. Competition, rent-seeking, market demand (BFH, 9.1-9.2)
Lecture 12. Uncertainty and risk (BFH, 4.2-4.6) Problem Set 1 Due Friday of Week 6 at 5pm on SULIS. |
| Week 7 | Lecture 13. Jobs, Unemployment and Wages (11.1-11.5)
Lecture 14. Jobs, Unemployment and Wages (11.5-11.7) [Open Day: Lecture podcast] Open Days. |
| Week 8 | Lecture 15. Macroeconomic modelling: demand side (CS, 1.2)
Lecture 16. Macroeconomic modelling: supply side (CS, 2.1 - 2.2) |
| Week 9 | Lecture 17. The three equation model: set up (CS, 3.1-3.3) [Bank Holiday: Lecture podcast]
Lecture 18. The three equation model: usage (CS, 3.1-3.3) |
| Week 10 | Lecture 19. Expectations, the Phillips Curve, the Lucas Critique (CS, 4.2-4.5)
Lecture 20. Money, Banking, the macroeconomy (CS, 5.2-5.5) Problem Set 2 Due Friday of Week 10 at 5pm on SULIS. |
| Week 11 | Lecture 21. The Financial Sector and Crisis (CS, 6.2-6.5)
Lecture 22. Growth, fluctuations, and innovation: Solow (8.2-8.4) |
| Week 12 | Lecture 23. Endogenous and Schumpeterian Growth: (8.5-8.8)
Lecture 24. The Eurozone (12.3-12.5) (Economic Reasoning Assignment due Friday week 12 at 5pm to Turnitin) |