• Gibson, Tracy
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    AP Macroeconomics
     
    College-level course approved by the AP Central Collegeboar. Click here to register for AP Exams
     
     
    The Advanced Placement course in macroeconomics gives students the opportunity to earn college credit in macroeconomics while still in high school. More importantly, the content of an AP macroeconomics course helps students develop critical thinking skills through the understanding, application and analysis of fundamental macroeconomic concepts. Students also learn to apply quantitative and mathematical skills to the discipline of macroeconomics, test economic propositions empirically, improve their decision-making skills and apply economic logic to a wide variety of real world and hypothetical situations

    Course Materials

    N. Gregory Mankiw, Principles of Economics, 5th Ed. Ohio: South-Western Cengage Learning

    Advanced Placement Economics: Macroeconomic student activities, 3rd Ed. 2003 National Council of Economic Education

    Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan

    "Pain Is Temporary, Quitting Lasts Forever" Lance Armstrong

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