Introduction

COURSE OVERVIEW: Breyer State University offers a complete Certificate program entitled Globalization and its Effects on the Global Economy. This is a 12-semester hour course and provides a comprehensive and detailed curriculum in this globalization specialty. The program uses the latest and authoritative texts. The certificate program’s objective is to provide you with a general understanding of today’s global economic world and views for the future, providing essential tools to you to answer essential questions such as: what is a recession? Could increasing globalization increase booms and busts? Or what is a business cycle? And can monetary and fiscal policies eliminate them?

Courses in this Certificate Program:

Total semester hours: 12

Upon successful completion of the certificate program, you receive a Global Economy: The Effects of Globalization College Certificate, and 12-semester hours of college credit. CEU certificates are also available for 180 contact hours.

TEXTBOOKS: The following texts are used in the Certificate Program.

Book 1: The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, by Hernando de Soto, Black Swan (paperback) 273 pages.

Book 2: Ongoing Changes in the Business Cycle – Evidence and Causes, by Thomas Dalsgaard, Jorgen Elmeskov and Cyn-Young Park, OECD Economics Department Working Papers no. 315 (67 pages).

Book 3: The resurrection of Risk, by the Economic Cycle Research Institute, Working Paper No. 2001/11A (18 pages).

Book 4: Macroeconomic Vulnerabilities in the Twenty-First Century Economy: A Preliminary Taxonomy, by J. Bradford DeLong, Conference Draft (42 pages).

Book 5: Beyond Schocks: What Causes Business Cycles? Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Conference Series No. 42, June 1998 (31 pages).

Book 6: Recessions and Recoveries Chapter 3, IMF World Economic Outlook, May 2002 (34 pages).

Book 7: Deflation: The Global Economy's Downside, by Robert J. Samuelson, Washington Post, September 4, 2002 (2 pages).

Book 8: Of Shocks and Horrors: The Causes for Booms and Busts, The Economist, print edition, September 2002 (2 pages).

Book 9: Defining the R Word, The Economist, print edition, September 2002 (1 page).

Book 10: Keeping a Lower Profile, The Economist, print edition, September 2002 (5 pages).

Book 11: Strategic Prospects and Policies for the U.S. Economy, by Wynne Godley and Alex Izurieta, Levy Economics Institute, April 2002 (29 pages).

Book 12: Asset Prices, Financial and Monetary Stability: Exploring the Nexus, by Claudio Borio and Philip Lowe, BIS Working Papers No. 114, July 2002 (47 pages).

Book 13: Monetary Policy in the Advanced Industrial Economies, by the Bank for International Settlements, 72nd annual report, (20 pages).

Book 14: The Interaction Between the Financial Sector and the Real Economy, by the Bank for International Settlements, 72nd annual report, (19 pages).

TUITION: The cost per course is $400.00

ENROLLMENT: There is open enrollment for this certificate program. Students may enroll and begin their studies at anytime.

INFORMATION: If you have any questions regarding this certificate program, you may address them to adm@breyerstate.com An administrative faculty member will respond to all questions.

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