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
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
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