This course explores economic growth, emphasizing GDP and the role of innovative ideas, not just capital accumulation. It delves into business fluctuations, studying unemployment, inflation, and aggregate supply and demand. The course also examines macroeconomic policies and institutions, including the Federal Reserve, monetary and fiscal policies, and the interplay between economics and politics.

Money and Banking provides an in-depth examination of the US monetary system using a powerful combination of theory, history, and empirical analysis. The topics covered include the history and function of money, the development and role of commercial banking, and US central banking and monetary policy.

This is a crash course in economic problems and public policy. The goal is to build on economic principles and develop an understanding of how modern economist think about problems in the public policy space.