This course provides students with the basic analytical tools necessary to analyze the U.S. economy from the macroeconomic perspective. The course includes an examination of the core problem of scarcity including resource allocation through the price system, market failures, and the elements of international trade, national income statistics, problems of inflation and unemployment, Keynesian macroeconomic theory and policy; the role of money supply; monetary theory; and Federal Reserves policy, alternative stabilization policies, problems of economic growth, income distribution, and other topics. Current economic problems are examined by guest and staff speakers from liberal, conservative, and radical perspectives. (C-ID ECON 202) (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-D, CSU-D, IGETC-4)
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