MACROECONOMICS

dr hab. Marek Szczepański

Plan of the course• Introduction - the economic problem• Tools of economic analysis, main indicators• Demand, supply and the market• Output and aggregate demand• Unemployment and inflation• Factor market and income distribution• Long-run economic growth• Short-time economic growth• Business cycles• Stabilization policy (fiscal and monetary policy)• Open- economy macroeconomics• Money and banking• Interantional trade, european integration and globalization• The main macroeconomic theories and current discussions

Literature

1. P. Krugman, R. Wells, Macroeconomics, Second Edition, Worth Publishers, New York 2009.

2. D. Begg, S. Fisher, R. Dornbusch, Economics, 8th Edition, McGraw-Hill Companies, London, New York 2008.

3. http://www.mcgrawhill.co.uk/textbooks/begg 4. E.Skawińska, K.Sobiech, K.Nawrot, Makroekonomia,

PWE, Warszawa 2008.