Markets and macroeconomics

Readings due before class on Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Required

• Chapters 7 and 10 in Naked EconomicsCharles Wheelan, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, 2nd ed. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010).
  
  
• This American Life, “The Giant Pool of Money,” episode 355, May 9, 2008This episode inspired The Big Short (2015), which, because we’re at BYU, I can’t recommend to you (there are 90 uses of f***!).
  
  
• Planet Money, “A Locked Door, a Secret Meeting, and the Birth of the Fed,” episode 505, December 20, 2013