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Positive and Normative Statements

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    Identifying Statements
    02:48
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    Positive Statements vs. Normative Statements
    04:35

Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF) - Introduction and Productive Efficiency

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    Understanding the PPF
    06:23
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    PPF - Attainable and Efficient
    04:48

PPF - Increasing Marginal Opportunity Costs and Allocative Efficiency

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    PPF - Graphing Increasing Marginal Opportunity Costs
    03:33
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    PPF - The Law of Increasing Opportunity Costs
    05:04

PPF - Outward Shifts

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    PPF - General Economic Growth
    01:55
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    PPF - Technological Advances in an Industry
    02:49

PPF - Comparative Advantage and Absolute Advantage

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    Opportunity Costs and Comparative Advantage
    04:36
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    Different PPFs and Absolute Advantage
    02:03

PPF - Comparative Advantage and Trade

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    Comparative Advantage and Specialization in Trade
    05:30

Introduction to Supply and Demand

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    Perfect Competition
    03:23

The Basics of Demand

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    The Basics of Demand
    06:02

Shifting Demand

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    Substitute and Complementary Goods
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    Shifting Demand
    03:59
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    Consumer Preferences
    01:44

The Basics of Supply

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    The Basics of Supply
    02:43

Shifting Supply

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    Shifting Supply
    01:56
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    Nature
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    Technology
    01:39

Supply and Demand Together: Equilibrium, Shortage, and Surplus

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    Equilibrium
    02:41
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    Law of Supply and Demand
    02:43
  • Surplus and Shortage
    02:56

Willingness to Pay and Consumer Surplus

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    Willingness to Pay and Consumer Surplus
    03:39
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    Consumer Surplus
    02:15
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    Consumer Surplus and Market Demand
    06:03

Willingness to Sell and Producer Surplus

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    Willingness to Sell and Producer Surplus
    03:04
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    Producer Surplus and Market Supply
    04:03
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    Producer Surplus
    01:30

Economic Surplus and Efficiency

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    Deadweight Loss and Market Failure
    07:08
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    Economic Surplus
    11:37

Price Ceilings, Price Floors, and Black Markets

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    Price Ceilings
    07:05
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    Price Floors and Black Markets
    08:03
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    Price Floors
    02:18

Introducing Taxes and Tax Incidence

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    Tax Incidence
    03:21
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    Taxes and Tax Incidence
    13:27

Effects of Taxes on a Market

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    Effects of Taxes
    09:45
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    Tax Revenue
    03:59

Expenditure Approach for Measuring GDP

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    Calculating GDP Using the Expenditure Approach
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Detailed Explanation of GDP Components

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    Government Purchases and Net Exports
    02:12
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    Consumption
    02:38
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    Investment
    02:01

Nominal GDP and Real GDP

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    Nominal GDP and Real GDP
    09:15
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    Inflation and the GDP Deflator
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Shortcomings of GDP

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    Shortcomings of GDP
    02:21

Labor Force and Unemployment

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    Problems with Measuring Unemployment
    04:35
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    Labor Force and Unemployment
    05:58

Types of Unemployment

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    Frictional, Structural, and Cyclical Unemployment
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    Definition of Full Employment
    02:44

Inflation and Consumer Price Index (CPI)

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    Calculating CPI and Inflation Rate
    08:35
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    Consumer Price Index (CPI)
    04:40
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    Inflation
    03:34

Using CPI to Adjust for Inflation

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    Using CPI to Adjust for Inflation
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    Using CPI to Adjust for Inflation
    02:49

Nominal Income and Real Income

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    Nominal Income and Real Income
    06:07

The Consumption Function

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    1 = MPC + MPS
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    Equation of the Consumption Function
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    Marginal Propensity to Consume and Save
    04:20

The Saving Function

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    Saving Function (Saving Schedule)
    06:14

Determinants of Consumption and Saving

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    Determinants of Consumption and Saving
    05:13

Multiplier Effect of Investment Spending

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    Multiplier
    01:36
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    Multiplier Effect of Investment Spending
    07:46

Aggregate Expenditures Model and Macroeconomic Equilibrium

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    Aggregate Expenditures Model and Macroeconomic Equilibrium
    07:08
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    Numerical Aggregate Expenditures
    10:19

AE Model: Graphing Macroeconomic Equilibrium

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    Graphing Macroeconomic Equilibrium
    13:28

AE Model: Private Closed Economy

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    Private Closed Economy
    05:39

AE Model: Private Open Economy

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    Private Open Economy
    05:37

AE Model and the Multiplier

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    AE Model and the Multiplier
    11:37

Aggregate Demand

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    AD-AS Model: Aggregate Demand
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    Interest Rate Effect
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    Wealth Effect
    02:47

Deriving Aggregate Demand from the Aggregate Expenditure Model

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    Deriving Aggregate Demand from the Aggregate Expenditure Model with Constant Prices
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    Deriving Aggregate Demand from the Aggregate Expenditure Model
    08:18

Shifting Aggregate Demand

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    Shifting Aggregate Demand
    04:27

Long Run Aggregate Supply

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    Long Run Aggregate Supply
    04:36
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    Shifting Long Run Aggregate Supply
    04:35

Short Run Aggregate Supply

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    Short Run Aggregate Supply Slopes Upwards
    04:16
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    Short Run Aggregate Supply
    02:52

Shifting Short Run Aggregate Supply

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    Shifting Short Run Aggregate Supply
    03:03
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    Factors Leading to Shifting Short Run Aggregate Supply
    05:32

AD-AS Model: Equilibrium in the Short Run and Long Run

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    Long Run Equilibrium in the AD-AS Model
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    Short Run Equilibrium in the AD-AS Model
    02:35

AD-AS Model: Shifts in Aggregate Demand

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    Equilibrium After a Decrease in Aggregate Demand
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    Equilibrium After an Increase in Aggregate Demand
    06:03

The Functions of Money; The Kinds of Money

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    Kinds of Money
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    Functions of Money
    04:06
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    Definition of Money; Barter Economy; Double Coincidence of Wants
    02:30

Defining the Money Supply: M1 and M2

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    Defining the Money Supply: M1 and M2
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Required Reserves and the Deposit Multiplier

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    Bank Balance Sheet and Money Supply
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    Required Reserves and the Deposit Multiplier
    03:16

Introduction to the Federal Reserve

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    Organization of the Federal Reserve
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    Role of the Federal Reserve
    03:11

The Federal Reserve and the Money Supply

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    Money Supply:Discount Policy and Required Reserves
    05:42
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    Money Supply:Open Market Operations
    06:01

History of the US Banking System

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    History of the US Banking System
    09:10

The Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 (The Great Recession)

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    Great Recession
    10:32

Monetary vs Fiscal Policy

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    Monetary vs Fiscal Policy
    03:13

Goals of Monetary Policy

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    Goals of Monetary Policy
    03:28

The Demand for Money

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    Money Demand
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    Shifting Money Demand
    02:17

The Money Supply on the Graph

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    Money Supply and Equilibrium in Money Market
    11:53

Monetary Policy and Aggregate Demand

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    Price Levels and the Money Market
    06:24
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    Monetary Policy and Aggregate Demand
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    Interest Rates and Aggregate Demand
    06:42

Expansionary and Contractionary Monetary Policy

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    Expansionary Monetary Policy
    07:42
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    Contractionary Monetary Policy
    08:07

Quantity Theory of Money

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    Quantity Theory of Money and Inflation
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    Quantity Theory of Money
    04:25

Federal Reserve Policies during the 2007-2009 Recession

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    Federal Reserve Policies during the 2007-2009 Recession
    08:06

Introduction to Fiscal Policy

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    Introduction; Discretionary Policy and Automatic Stabilizers
    09:33

Expansionary and Contractionary Fiscal Policy

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    Contractionary Fiscal Policy
    03:48
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    Expansionary Fiscal Policy
    05:24

Government Purchases and the Multiplier Effect

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    Government Purchases GDP Multiplier
    08:02

Taxes, the Multiplier Effect, and Automatic Stabilizers

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    Taxes as an Automatic Stabilizer
    03:50
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    Taxes and the GDP Multiplier
    05:11

Long Run Effects of Fiscal Policy

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    Persistent Budget Deficit
    03:39
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    Long Run Tax Policy
    02:40

Criticisms of Fiscal Policy

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    Political Environment
    02:19
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    Pro-Cyclical Fiscal Policy
    01:39
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    Crowding Out Effect
    04:16

The Laffer Curve

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    The Laffer Curve
    09:01

Short Run Phillips Curve

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    Short Run Phillips Curve
    09:33

Long Run Phillips Curve

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    Long Run Phillips Curve
    06:07

Phillips Curve and Expected Inflation

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    Shifting the Phillip's Curve
    07:46
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    Expectations of Future Inflation
    09:52

Phillips Curve and Supply Shocks

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    Shifting the Phillips Curve: Supply Shocks
    05:19

Sacrifice Ratio

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    Sacrifice Ratio
    08:29

Disinflation and Deflation

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    Deflation
    02:29
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    Disinflation (Paul Volcker)
    07:18

Long-Run Economic Growth

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    Economic Growth
    02:07

Growth Rates and the Rule of 70

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    Growth Rates and the Rule of 70
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    Growth Rates and the Rule of 70
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Institutions that Promote Economic Growth

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    Role of Government in Economic Growth
    08:45