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Key Concepts and Study Guidance for Macroeconomics Final

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Introduction to Economics

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    Defining Economic Terms: Scarcity, Trade-offs, and Opportunity Costs
    04:30
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    Definition of Economics: Micro vs. Macro
    02:04
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    Economic Systems
    01:42

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 - 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

Shifting Demand

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    Substitute and Complementary Goods
    01:27
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    Shifting Demand
    03:59
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    Consumer Preferences
    01:44

Shifting Supply

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    Shifting Supply
    01:56
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    Nature
    01:00
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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

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

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
    05:44
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    Definition of Full Employment
    02:44

Unemployment: Minimum Wage Laws and Efficiency Wages

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    Unemployment: Efficiency Wages
    02:18
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    Unemployment: Minimum Wage Laws
    04:58

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

Disinflation and Deflation

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

Circular Flow Diagram

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    Households and Firms
    01:32
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    The Circular Flow Diagram
    04:20

Expenditure Approach for Measuring GDP

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    Calculating GDP Using the Expenditure Approach
    02:31

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
    03:04

Shortcomings of GDP

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    Shortcomings of GDP
    02:21

Business Cycles and Their Characteristics

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    Business Cycle Characteristics
    01:46
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    Causes of Business Cycles
    04:18
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    Key Ideas of the Business Cycle
    02:33

Aggregate Demand

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    AD-AS Model: Aggregate Demand
    02:56
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    Interest Rate Effect
    05:48
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    Wealth Effect
    02:47

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
    02:28
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    Short Run Equilibrium in the AD-AS Model
    02:35

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

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

The Laffer Curve

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    The Laffer Curve
    09:01

Monetary vs Fiscal Policy

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    Monetary vs Fiscal Policy
    03:13

Introduction to the Federal Reserve

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    Organization of the Federal Reserve
    05:05
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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

The Functions of Money; The Kinds of Money

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    Kinds of Money
    01:33
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    Functions of Money
    04:06
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    Definition of Money; Barter Economy; Double Coincidence of Wants
    02:30

Required Reserves and the Deposit Multiplier

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    Bank Balance Sheet and Money Supply
    05:31
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    Required Reserves and the Deposit Multiplier
    03:16

The Demand for Money

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    Money Demand
    01:51
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    Shifting Money Demand
    02:17

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
    04:53
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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

Sources of Comparative Advantage

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    Sources of Comparative Advantage
    05:50

Arguments Against International Trade

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    Arguments Against International Trade
    07:50

Tariffs

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    Tariffs on Imports
    14:35

Import Quotas and VERs

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    Import Quotas and VERs
    14:08
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    Import Quotas
    09:44