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The economics department is excited to be offering ECON 103: Principles of Macroeconomics as a summer session course this year! The class will run 6/17-7/29 on Mon/Wed 3-6pm, and be taught by professor Daniel Shoag.
This is a required course for most Weatherhead majors and counts towards the social sciences general education requirements. In addition, summer course tuition is 50% off.
Registration is open now, and there are still spots available - go to to register now!
Course description: While Microeconomics looks at individual consumers and firms, Macroeconomics looks at the economy as a whole. The focus of this class will be on the business cycle. Unemployment, inflation and national production all change with the business cycle. We will look at how these are measured, their past behavior and at theoretical models that attempt to explain this behavior. We will also look at the role of the Federal Government and the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States in managing the business cycle.