welcome to the economics of money and banking here at Barnard College Columbia University in Manhattan this as you know is the center the world financial markets and that's what this course is all about other money than courses take a text book their couple the famous text books some by my colleagues here at columbia and I don't use them I teach this course instead from more primary texts about the money markets this is a course about how the money markets actually work with the institutions of them are both domestically and internationally the financial crisis was an
indication that economics was in trouble nobody saw the crisis coming they didn't know what to do once it came and once it was over they weren't sure how to change economics they just wanted to go back to business as usual okay this course is dedicated to to the opposite position all three of those things and I hope by the end of this course you will feel that you now have some tools that you would have seen it coming and I hope most of all that you'll see why it's important that this kind of thinking this
thinking that I call the money view okay needs to be brought back into economics and not neglected not put on dusty shelves at libraries but made relevant today and taught today please join me you're the new economic thinkers of tomorrow let's get started
