Macroeconomics WSE-EKN-Ma

This course is intended to both broaden students' knowledge of macroeconomics and to develop their ability to cope with spoken and written macroeconomic texts in English. This aim is met through a choice of presented issues important in contemporary macroeconomics, the form of their presentation which refers to different schools and opinions and a choice of simple, wriiten texts that help students understand the problems discussed.

The list of subjects/lectures and respective literature is as below:

1. Business cycle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_cycle

2. Inflation and unemployment

http://www.economicshelp.org/macroeconomics/inflation/

http://www.economicshelp.org/macroeconomics/unemployment/ (definitions, causes, costs)

http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/3881/economics/policies-for-reducing-unemployment/

3. Fiscal Policy

http://www.economicshelp.org/macroeconomics/fiscal-policy/fiscal_policy/

http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/5922/economics/uk-budget-deficit-2/

4. Monetary Policy and financial instability

http://www.nbp.pl/homen.aspx?f=/en/onbp/informacje/polityka_pieniezna.html

http://www.economicshelp.org/macroeconomics/monetary-policy/

5. Stabilization policy dilemmas and supply side policies

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/12/fiscal-or-monetary-policy.asp

http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/1850/economics/difference-between-monetary-and-fiscal-policy/

http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/31/supply-side/supply-side-policies/

6. Economic inequality and underconsumption

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States