Instructor: Les Peacock, Ph.D.

Course objective: To provide students with a working knowledge of relationships between money and banking and (a) economic performance; (b) financial markets; and (c) international financial issues.

Topics covered: Role of money in modern economics, relationships between money and banking, role and structure of Federal Reserve, monetary history of US, principles of banking, relationship between money and prices, money, credit, interest rates, international aspects of money and banking, and credit.