12/05
Syllabus
Computer Lab website review
Lecture on the Economic Way of Thinking
Reading: "From Pocketbook to Policymaking, Economic Education Matters"
(read for 12/06)
Read Chapter 1 (pages 1 - 20) from the Krugman - Wells text [(Please type your responses to
questions 1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 15 on pages 20 - 22 in text) (due 12/12)]
Read "The Plight of the Economist" and "The Second Coming of Adam Smith"
[(New Ideas From Dead Economists) typed summary of both chapters (due 12/13)]
(Download) Unit I Review (personal review, does not need to be completed -- keep for cumulative final)
12/06
Review "From Pocketbook to Policymaking, Economic Education Matters"
Take Quiz "The Economic Way of Thinking" for big points (no preparation allowed)
Economics defined class activity
"What is to love about economics?" [(Economics by Example) type your response to
questions 1 - 4 (due on 12/08)]
"Incentives Matter" [(Naked Economics) typed response to questions (due 12/09)]
12/07
Lecture -- Basic Concepts
Class work time on readings
(Download) Adam Smith reading
(Download) Opportunity Cost reading
12/08
Review "What is to love about economics?"
Poem
Adam Smith reading (in class discussion)
Opportunity Cost reading (in class discussion)
The Family Man clip
Lecture -- Factors of Production
12/09
Review "Incentives Matter"
(Download) "I, Pencil" [(typed summary of pencil story and comments by Friedman /
Boudreaux) due 12/13]
12/12
Review Chapter 1 text work (bring text)
Lecture on Explicit / Implicit costs and PPC/PPF
Complete 1-3 from AP Economics -- Student Activities
Complete 1-2 from AP Economics -- Student Activities
Read Chapter 2 (pages 23 - 42) from the Krugman - Wells text [(Please type
your responses to questions 1, 7, 9, 10, and 14 on pages 42 - 44) due 12/16]
12/13
Review Dead Economists readings and "I Pencil"
Price system film
Broad Social Goals of Society (due 12/14)
(Download) “Treasure Island” Part I & II [type summary (due 12/15)]
12/14
Review Broad Social Goals of Society
Campus parking activity (in-class)
Types of Economic Systems (in-class)
Lecture -- ISMS and Circular Flow
12/15
Review "Treasure Island" Part I & II
Lecture -- Comparative and Absolute Advantage
Complete 1-6 from AP Economics -- Student Activities
(Download) “Thinking in an Economic Way”
12/16
Review Chapter 2 text work (bring text to class today)
Exam review
12/19
Exam review
12/20
60 multiple-choice questions in 66 minutes
12/21
Free response short answer exam
Multiple choice exam post mortem (bring text to class)
12/22
Multiple Choice / Free Response exam post mortem (bring text to class)
01/03 - 20 with Friday 01/20 as presentation day!
