EC2010 Intermediate
Economics
Teaching assistants
Marta
Zieba, ziebam (at) tcd.ie. Office hours: Friday,
Theo
Talbot, theodore.talbot (at) gmail.com. Office hours: Tuesday,
Slides
Topic
1: What is macroeconomics? What are the facts?
Topic
2: The IS-LM model
Topic
3: The labour market
Topic
4: The AS-AD model
Topic
5: The natural rate of unemployment and the
Phillips curve
Topic
6: Economic activity, inflation and money
growth
Topic
7: The facts of growth
Topic
8: Capital accumulation and technological
progress
Problem sets
Problem
set 1: questions, partial answers.
Problem
set 2: questions, partial answers.
Problem
set 3: questions, complete answers.
Problem
set 4: questions, partial answers.
Problem
set 5: questions, partial answers.
Problem
set 6: questions.
Problem
set 7: questions.
Further (optional) readings
Paul
Krugman, Two cheers for
formalism
Paul
Krugman, There's something
about macro
Olivier
Blanchard, What do we know about macroeconomics
that Fisher and Wicksell did not?
Michael
Woodford, Revolution and evolution in
twentieth-century macroeconomics
Olivier
Blanchard, European unemployment:
the evolution of facts and ideas