经济学基础第一课(曼昆第五版)研究报告.ppt

Dear Colleague, Thank you for using the Premium PowerPoints for Mankiw’s Principles of Economics. I update these approximately once per year, to update the data, fix any typos, and incorporate the best suggestions from users like yourself. If you have any suggestions, corrections, or feedback, please email me at rcronovich@. Check the textbook’s website to make sure you’re always using the most recent version. In this area (the “notes” section), I occasionally include notes that are visible only to you and will not display during your presentation in class. In slides with data tables or charts, the notes area provides the source information (often a URL or web address to the original data). In other slides, the notes area provides information that might be helpful when teaching this material, particularly for new instructors and grad assistant teachers. For chapter 1, most instructors try to cover this chapter in a single class session (especially those that are teaching the second of a two-semester sequence). If you are teaching a “principles of microeconomics” course, you might consider skipping Principles 8-10, which deal with macroeconomics. Near the end of the chapter are four slides titled “FYI: How to Read Your Textbook.” In the notes section of these slides, I describe an in-class activity that teaches effective reading skills to students. * You might want to elaborate a bit on some of the points made here. Some examples: “How do people decide how much to work?” Time is scarce resource – there’s just not enough time to do everything we’d like to do. How do we decide how much of our time to spend working? There’s a tradeoff: the more time we spend working, the higher our income, and therefore the more stuff we can buy. But, the more time we spend working, the less time we have for leisure – hanging out with friends, going hiking, watching movies, etc. (You might want to ask your students how THEY decide how much time to spend worki