Money and Banking Lecture Slides

I have posted the link to the lecture slides below. As promised, I'll try and paste them before class. The slides include those of lecture one (last week) and two, for the next class. Also try and read the article that I mentioned below, the Money in a Prisoner of War Camp. It pertains to the topic we will be discussing in class on Friday.

Lecture 1: http://www.mediafire.com/file/1alc4bbsfa774l1/MBaCM%20Lecture%201.pptx

Lecture 2: http://www.mediafire.com/file/70qwalqqx0yzhv8/MBaCM%20Lecture%202.pptx

Interesting Sites

Earlier in class, I said I'd give you a list of some interesting sites. below are some sites and blogs that I think you would find useful. Try and frequent (at least once a week) these sites during the course o f the year.

The Economist: economist.com

Mankiw's Blog: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/

EconLog: http://econlog.econlib.org/#

Freakonomics: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/

Wikieconomics: http://welkerswikinomics.com/blog/

Word 2003

Some of the students complained about not having word 2007. I promised I'd upload the word 2003 as well. The link to the course outlines are below.

http://www.mediafire.com/?b5312cqan1fqi

The question set for the Mathematical Economics class was also in word 07. For those who could not access it, here's the 2003 version:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/7sbih3w9ew1e8nh/Prerequisite%20Questions.doc

Course Outlines

I've uploaded the course outlines for the course am taking this semester. Follow the link below to download the course outline for the course you are taking.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ggz3rdzpg57tr

For those doing Money and Banking, below is a link to an interesting article about how cigarettes were used as currency in a prisoner of war camp during WW2. Please read, and if you have any comments you can post them on this blog.

http://www.albany.edu/~mirer/eco110/pow.html

Those students doing Mathematical Economics will notice that I've omitted a couple of topics (Partial Equilibrium Analysis and Single Variable Differentiation) on the course outline. I expect that you've treated these topics in Business Maths. As a result I have picked a couple of questions on these topics for you guys to try out. The questions can be found in Alpha Chiang, but I've put them all into one word document. Try them out and if you have any problems you can raise them in class.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/we4ut8hwxerf4r1/Prerequisite%20Questions.docx

About the blog

Hi, my name is Yaya S Jallow. I am a lecturer with the University of The Gambia. I've stated this blog as a way to connect and share information with my students at the university. Students at UTG regularly complain about a lack of study materials and I thought that this would be a great way to guide them to some of the materials available on the web that they would find useful (outside of the lecture notes and textbook). On this blog, I'll post my lecture notes, assignment questions, links to other useful sites for Econ students and also write on issues that we' ll be discussing in class.