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AP Macroeconomics
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6 video lessons
7:30
Topic 1
Basic Economic Concepts
Here is a result that feels wrong the first time you meet it. Suppose you are faster than your friend at writing code and faster at writing documentation. You…
9:58
Topic 2
Economic Indicators and the Business Cycle
Two ordinary scenes. A supermarket aisle, where the same basket of food costs more than it did last year. And a long queue of people, waiting. Neither is an…
8:50
Topic 3
National Income and Price Determination
A government spends ten billion dollars on new railways. How much does the country's output rise? Not ten billion. It can rise by fifty billion. Money spent by…
7:55
Topic 4
Financial Sector
Look at the money in your hand. It is only paper. It is worth something because everyone agrees to accept it. And out of millions of those agreements grows…
8:29
Topic 5
Long-Run Consequences of Stabilization Policies
A government wants to end a recession fast. It spends more, cuts taxes, and the central bank makes borrowing cheap. It works — output rises, jobs come back.…
8:01
Topic 6
Open Economy—International Trade and Finance
Check the label on almost anything you own. Made somewhere else. It crossed an ocean in a steel box like these, and somebody paid for it in a different money.…