General Course Description:
This module allows students with a basic knowledge of economics (or who may not have had a recent exposure to the field) to experience an intense crash course covering:
- History of Economic Theory
- Principles of Micro and Macro Economics using a classing under-graduate textbook
- Economic history of the United States
- "Austrian" economics
- Current issues
Course Objectives:
- To become familiar with the great economists of the past two centuries
- To know the basics of economic theory and political views
- To articulate economic concepts and terminology
- To be able to explain current issues
- To be able to write an economics paper at the graduate level
Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the student is expected to able to:
The student is able to discuss global economics, both in terms of phenomena and underlying theoretical explains, at the graduate level.
The student should be able to explain the enduring contribution of the great economists and to articulate the fundamental differences between the various political perspectives on economic theory.
The student should be able to write a compelling paper dealing with economic issues, using suitable references to support his/her analysis and arguments.
Required Readings and Resources:
- Teaching Company lectures listed above
http://www.teach12.com
- Principles of Economics, 3rd or 4th Edition by N. Gregory Mankiw
- How An Economy Grows and Why It Crashes by Peter Schiff
- Economics in One Lesson (Available here: www.hacer.org/pdf/Hazlitt00.pdf) by Henry Hazlitt
- Chris Marteson’s Crash Course (online videos, also available as a book)
www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse
- MP3s: Students must listen to the past 4 months of Financial Sense podcasts (except the 1st Hour FS NewsTeam which is the weekly review) and the following: http://www.financialsense.com/asktheexpert/archive.html
Amerman, Daniel R. 11/22/08 Topic: Credit Default Swaps and Deflation
Blanchard, Roger D. 02/03/07 The Future of Global Oil Production
Chaze, Aaron 02/10/07 India: An Investor's Guide to the Next Economic Superpower
Clark, William R. 01/28/06 Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq and the Future of the Dollar
Drobny, Steven 08/12/06 Inside the House of Money
Dubil, Robert 07/09/05 An Arbitrage Guide to Financial Markets
Fisher, Ken 01/24/09 The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy got there...
Froehlich , Dr. Bob 04/08/06 Investment Megatrends
Hartcher, Peter 09/09/06 Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan and the Missing 7 Trillion Dollars
Klare, Michael T. 10/25/08 Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict
Klare, Michael T. 06/21/08 Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy
Morris, Charles R. 05/25/08 The Trillion Dollar Meltdown
Nolte, Paul 02/23/08 Economy Roundtable
Panzner, Michael 02/21/09 When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for the End of the American Era
Perkins, John 05/07/05 Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Reingold, Dan 04/22/06 Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst
Schiff, Peter 03/10/07 Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Crash
Wiggin, Addison 12/17/05 Empire of Debt
- MP3 lecture(s) / podcast(s) (London School of Economics)
- Common Wealth: economics for a crowded planet
- A World Economic Order Based on Cultural Comparative Advantage
- Behavioral Economics: Common Mistakes in Daily Decisions
- The Logic of Life
- An Open Economy – the Progressive Response to Global Change
- The Psychology of Saving and Investment
- Knowledge Economies in China
At: http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/publicLecturesAndEvents.htm
Supplemental Readings and Resources:
Not applicable to this course. Please ask the instructor if you would like to receive a list of supplemental resources. |