Introduction to Economics
This course is a one-term introduction to microeconomics and macroeconomics. To make the content available to both in-person and remote students in the 2020–21 academic year, while retaining as much as possible the live element of traditional blackboard instruction, I created somewhat bare-bones slides and annotated them during class on an iPad. Below, I link to both the blank slides and the finished versions with notes. Others are welcome to use any of the resources on this page.
TeX files and figures for all slides
Micro slides
Introduction — slides
Production possibilities — blank slides, with notes
Comparative advantage and trade — blank slides, with notes
Demand and supply — blank slides, with notes
Elasticity — blank slides, with notes
Surplus and efficiency — blank slides, with notes
Price controls — blank slides, with notes
Taxes — blank slides, with notes
Costs of production — blank slides, with notes
Market structures — slides
Perfect competition — blank slides, with notes
Monopoly — blank slides, with notes
Oligopoly — blank slides, with notes
Externalities — blank slides, with notes
Public goods and common resources — blank slides, with notes
Macro slides
Introduction to macroeconomics — slides
Measuring income — blank slides, with notes
Measuring real GDP and inflation — blank slides, with notes
Economic growth — blank slides, with notes
The financial system and debt — blank slides, with notes
Unemployment — blank slides, with notes
Money and the Fed — blank slides, with notes
Aggregate demand and aggregate supply — blank slides, with notes
Monetary and fiscal policy — blank slides, with notes
Open economy macro basics — blank slides, with notes
Planet Money podcasts I found useful
Love, Betrayal And The Planet Money T-Shirt
Rocky Pipkin, Private Eye Vs. The Raisin Outlaw