Macroeconomics

Dr. Roger Arnold is at California State University San Marcos, where his fields of specialization are general microeconomic theory and monetary theory. Dr. Arnold earned his BS in economics from the University of Birmingham in England. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Tech. Dr. Daniel Arnold is a research scientist in the School of Public Health at Brown University, where his field of specialization is health economics. He received his BA in economics and mathematics from Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California Santa Barbara. Dr. David Arnold is at University of California San Diego, where his fields of specialization are labor economics, imperfect competition and discrimination. He received his BA in economics from the University of California Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.

• An Introduction to Economics.Part I: ECONOMICS: THE SCIENCE OF SCARCITY.1. What Economics Is About.Appendix A: Working with Diagrams.Appendix B: Should You Major in Economics?2. Production Possibilities Frontier Framework.3. Supply and Demand: Theory.4. Prices: Free, Controlled, and Relative.5. Supply, Demand, and Price: Applications.Macroeconomics.Part II: MACROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS.6. Macroeconomic Measurements, Part I: Prices and Unemployment.7. Macroeconomic Measurements, Part II: GDP and Real GDP.Part III: MACROECONOMIC STABILITY, INSTABILITY, AND FISCAL POLICY.8. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply.9. Classical Macroeconomics and the Self-Regulating Economy.10. Keynesian Macroeconomics and Economic Instability: A Critique of the Self-Regulating Economy.11. Fiscal Policy and the Federal Budget.Part IV: MONEY, THE ECONOMY, AND MONETARY POLICY.12. Money, Banking and the Financial System.13. The Federal Reserve System.14. Money and the Economy.15. Monetary Policy.Appendix C: Bond Prices and Interest Rates.Part V: EXPECTATIONS AND GROWTH.16. Expectations Theory and the Economy.17. Economic Growth: Resources, Technology, Ideas, and Institutions.Part VI: CREATIVE DESTRUCTION AND CRONY CAPITALISM.18. Creative Destruction and Crony Capitalism: Two Forces on the Economic Landscape TodayInternational Economics.Part VII: INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FINANCE.19. International Trade.20. International Finance.