Re: aggregate supply and skipping chapters

RUSHBROOKD@acad.ripon.edu
Fri, 9 Apr 1993 10:45 CST

I find that students find it easier to understand aggregate
demand and aggregate supply after the Keynesian cross and
fiscal/monetary policy discussions, and usually use AD/AS
to review the material up to that point, as well as to
compare the different schools of thought on policy.
I have always done it that way, and now use a textbook which
follows more or less the same approach. There are a number
of textbooks which follow this order (I had always assumed
they were in the majority).
I prefer to think of lectures and the text as complementary,
with the lectures being the more important of the two. (For
example, I will test on material covered in class but not in
the text, but not vice versa, unless I specifically point out
a section.) Also, students seem more inclined to read if they
are given a very limited number of pages to concentrate on
prior to the lecture.

Dereka Rushbrook
Ripon College
rushbrookd@acad.ripon.edu