COURSE:
Economics 290-3 D9
SEMESTER: Fall 2010
TITLE: Canadian
Microeconomic Policy
INSTRUCTOR:
Course Outline and Reading List
Required Texts: Brander,
James A., Government Policy Toward
Business, 4th
Edition, 2006, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. and Luciani,
Patrick., Economic
Myths : Making Sense of Canadian
Policy Issues (4th ed.); additional
material will be posted on my web site (www.sfu.ca/~easton)
from time to time.
Grading: Midterm 1: 20%; Midterm 2: 20%; Tutorial: 10%; Final Exam: 50%
Students who cannot write one or both of the midterm exams for documented medical/personal reasons will write a final exam with a suitably adjusted weight.
Week 1: Brander: Chapters 1 and 2; Luciani: ix-xvi
Week 2: Brander: Chapters 3; Luciani: Chapter 17
Week 3: Brander: Chapter 4; Luciani: Chapters 4
and 15
Practice
Exam for First Midterm
Week 4: Mid-term Exam
Week 5: Brander: Chapter 5*, 6, 15; Luciani: 3 and 4
Week 6: Brander: Chapter 7*, 8; Luciani: Chapter 10, 11 and 29
Week 7: Brander: Chapter 9: Luciani: Chapter 7
Week 8: Brander: Chapter 10; Luciani: Chapters 18 and 19
Week 9: Brander: Chapter 11; Luciani: Chapters 20
and 21
Practice
Exam for Second Midterm
Week 10: Remembrance Day: No Class
Week 11: Mid-term Exam
Week 12: Brander: Chapter 16: Luciani: Chapter 5
Week 13: Luciani: Chapter 24 and 27
*Recommended but not required
**NO
TUTORIALS
DURING THE FIRST WEEK OF CLASSES**
Students requiring accommodations as a result
of a
disability must contact the Centre for Students with Disabilities at
778-782-3112 or csdo@sfu.ca
All
students are expected to read and understand SFU’s policies
with regard
to
academic dishonesty (S 10.02 and S 10.03).
These policies are available at the following web addresses: http://www.sfu.ca/policies/files/Students/S10.02.pdf
and http://www.sfu.ca/policies/files/Students/S10.03.pdf