This intermediate economics course aims to help students to deepen their understanding of the economy at the macro level. Focus is placed on the functioning of the macroeconomy, of which the temporal dimension (from the short run, the medium run, through to the long run) and the spatial dimension (from the closed economy to the open economy) are examined with equal weights. Essential concepts and analytic tools are presented with a view to encouraging students to strengthen their capability of both explaining and predicting development in the global macroeconomy today.

This intermediate economics course aims to help students to deepen their understanding of the economy at the macro level. Focus is placed on the functioning of the macroeconomy, of which the temporal dimension (from the short run, the medium run, through to the long run) and the spatial dimension (from the closed economy to the open economy) are examined with equal weights. Essential concepts and analytic tools are presented with a view to encouraging students to strengthen their capability of both explaining and predicting development in the global macroeconomy today.

本課程介紹各總體學派的理論內容與政策涵義，並探討政府在經濟社會扮演的角色。內容涵蓋古典學派、凱因斯學派、貨幣學派、新興古典學派、新興凱因斯學派、實質景氣循環、供給面學派與經濟成長理論。

This course introduces the theoretical content and policy implications of the general schools, and explores the role of the government in economic society. The content covers classical school, Keiners school, currency school, Neo-Entertainment Classic school, Newcomer Keiners school, real-life environment, supply-to-face school and economic growth theory.

The text is MACROECONOMICS by Olivier Blanchard, Eighth Edition, Pearson. Lecture notes and supplemental material for in-class discussion are to be distributed following the progress of the course.

The text is MACROECONOMICS by Olivier Blanchard, Eighth Edition, Pearson. Lecture notes and supplemental material for in-class discussion are to be distributed following the progress of the course.