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Macroeconomics: Foundations, National Accounts, and Growth

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Introduction to Economics

Three Key Economic Ideas

Circular Flow Diagram

Expenditure Approach for Measuring GDP

Nominal GDP and Real GDP

Savings Equal Investment

Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF) - Introduction and Productive Efficiency

Long-Run Economic Growth

Productivity and the Per-Worker Production Function

Growth Rates and the Rule of 70

Business Cycles and Their Characteristics

The Consumption Function

Aggregate Expenditures Model and Macroeconomic Equilibrium

Aggregate Demand

Shifting Aggregate Demand

Price Elasticity of Demand on a Graph

Price Elasticity of Supply

Elasticity Summary

WIllingness to Pay and Consumer Surplus

Willingness to Sell and Producer Surplus

Economic Surplus and Efficiency

Price Ceilings, Price Floors, and Black Markets

Introducing Taxes and Tax Incidence

Effects of Taxes on a Market

Elasticity and Taxes

Subsidies

Labor Force and Unemployment

Types of Unemployment

Inflation and Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Using CPI to Adjust for Inflation

Problems with the Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Nominal Income and Real Income

Nominal Interest, Real Interest, and the Fisher Equation

Demand-Pull and Cost-Push Inflation

Costs of Inflation: Shoe-leather Costs and Menu Costs

Investment, Savings, and the Financial System

Nominal Interest, Real Interest, and the Fisher Equation

Taylor Rule

Quantity Theory of Money

Introduction to Fiscal Policy

Expansionary and Contractionary Fiscal Policy

Government Purchases and the Multiplier Effect

Taxes, the Multiplier Effect, and Automatic Stabilizers

Short Run Phillips Curve

Long Run Phillips Curve

Phillips Curve and Expected Inflation

Phillips Curve and Supply Shocks

Balance of Payments: Introduction

Balance of Payments: Current Account

Balance of Payments: Financial Account and Capital Account

Net Exports Equal Net Foreign Investment

Balance of Trade; Trade Deficit and Trade Surplus

Exchange Rates: Introduction

Exchange Rates: Nominal and Real

Exchange Rates: Equilibrium

Exchange Rates: Shifts in Supply and Demand

Exchange Rates and Net Exports

Exchange Rates: Purchasing Power Parity

The Gold Standard

The Bretton Woods System

Classical Model and Keynesian Model

Dynamic AD-AS Model: Introduction

Dynamic AD-AS Model: Inflation and Recession

Dynamic AD-AS Model: Fiscal Policy

Dynamic AD-AS Model: Monetary Policy