Helzberg School of Management
[EC 3000 Intermediate Macroeconomics ]
[LCA 20523 ]
[SPRING, 2010]
Instructor: Professor Michael Tansey
Classroom: Conway 204
Meeting Time: TTh 12:30 PM 1:45 PM
Office: CONWAY 313
Office hours: 10:45 a.m. -12:15 p.m. Tues., Thursday , 4-5:45 p.m. Wed. and by
appointment. School Meetings are frequently scheduled at the 3-5 p.m. time slot- please
call me to schedule office hours ahead of time if you need to see me during that time.
Also call to schedule times outside of normal office hours. I particularly like to attend
group study sessions, so organize one, call me ahead of time, and we’ll schedule a time to
meet.
Telephone: Tansey [cell phone at 485-7550]
E-mail: michael.tansey@rockhurst.edu
Fax: 816-501-4693
Course Website: http://cte.rockhurst.edu/tanseym. Under “courses” click on Ec 3000
Text:. There are three basic sources of information used in the course:
1) Gregory Mankiw. Macroeconomics, 7 th edition
2) Class SYLLABUS, ASSIGNED READING IN THE TEXTBOOK,
ASSIGNMENTS, NOTES (chapters), CASES, AND POWER POINT SLIDES FROM
LECTURE will be on the website: cte.rockhurst.edu/tanseym under the course
“EC3000 ” They are continually revised throughout the course depending on the speed
of learning of the class. It will be necessary to reference this site regularly to keep
up-to-date on everything posted.
3) Make sure you have access and know how to use the online New York Times (http://
www.nytimes.com) and Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/public/us).
Course Description: Intermediate macroeconomics is a social science that focuses on the
fundamental determinants of output, employment, prices and interest rates. As an extension of
the foundation built in Principles of macroeconomics, critical economic factors and issues such
as technology, the labor force, the capital stock and government policies are investigated.
Students gain an understanding of the competing economic analyses explaining macroeconomic
problems and the variety of possible alternatives for fiscal, monetary, investment, and labor force
policies. Intermediate macroeconomics deals with topics involving the functioning, performance,
and control over the overall economy. Put yourself in the driver’s seat, pretend that you are the
President of the United States, and run the economy. Prerequisite: EC 2000 or EC 2050, EC
2100 or EC 2150, introductory statistics.
Learning Objectives: The most important skill in a job with any organization is
communication. This course is designed to give you practice in using these communication
skills: (1) speaking, (2) writing, (3) solving economic problems, (4) reading the newspaper, (5)