Syllabus
Understanding principles of macroeconomics in the open economy
Goal
Students find interesting about the study of the macro economy and are comfortable to understand trends and chnages of macro economy in the open economy
Prerequisites for this course
This course is open only for freshman students at the Department of Food and Resource Economics. If you took a course equivalent to principles or economics or advanced courses in economics such as macroeconomics, you are not allowed to take this course. In the case that you took principles of economics or macroeconomics before, your highest grade will be B.
Text book
N. Gregory Mankiw, Principles of Economics, Fourth Edition, 2007.
Assignments
1) Questions in the textbook
2) Current issues of macroeconomics
Others
Required to read a economic newspaper and The Economist, a weekly news magazine.





















