GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
002-02 - Principles of Economics (Macro)
Prof. Viksnins
T-R 8:50 - 10:05
Office: 569 ICC
115 ICC
Tel: 687-5890
Spring 2002
Office hours: T-R 10:15-11:45 AM
and by appointment
The textbook for the course is Paul Samuelson and William Nordhaus,
Macroeconomics,
17th edition (McGraw-Hill, 2001). A few chapters of a book by George J.
Viksnins, Economic Systems in Historical Perspective (Kendall-Hunt,
1997) may be relevant as well.. Each of the two mid-terms will count as
25%, the final exam 40%, and your recitation grade 10%. On the first day,
indicate your top three choices among the recitation sections listed below:
| A -- Wednesday | 6:15 pm | WAL 494 |
| B -- Wednesday, | 7:15 pm | WAL 494 |
| C -- Thursday, | 9:15 am | ICC 117 |
| D -- Friday | 8:15 am | REI 284 |
| E -- Thursday | 1:15 pm | WGR 213 |
| F -- Friday, | 12:15 pm | MAG 103 |
| Week beginning | Reading |
| January 7 | chs. 1-3; Viksnins, ch. 1 |
| January 14 | chs. 4-5; Viksnins, ch. 2 |
| January 21 | chs. 6-7; Viksnins, ch. 3 |
| January 28 | chs. 8 and 17; Viksnins, ch. 4 |
| February 4 | First Midterm (precise date TBA) |
| February 11 | Economic Report of the President, 2002 |
| February 18 | chs. 9-10 |
| February 25 | chs. 13-14 |
| Spring Break, March 2 to March 10 | |
| March 11 | chs. 11-12; Viksnins, chs. 8-9 |
| March 18 | review |
| March 25 | Second midterm (precise date TBA) |
| Easter Holiday, March 28 - April 2 | |
| April 1 | ch. 15 |
| April 8 | ch. 16 |
| April 15-22 | ch. 18; review Classes end, April 30 |