Disc 1: There Such a Thing as Too Much Money? GDP: The Economy in a Single Number? -- Prices: How to Quantify the Dangers of Inflation -- Unemployment: Who Wants to Work? -- How Is Money Created-and Why? -- There Such a Thing as Too Much Money? DIsc 2: An Intuitive Model of Economic Recessions Why Economic Growth Is So Powerful-and Hard -- Technology: The Engine of Sustained Growth -- What Are Fundamental Barriers to Growth? -- How Recessions Occur and Why They Matter -- An Intuitive Model of Economic Recessions Disc 3: Why Countries Try to Control Exchange Rates What Is Good Monetary or Fiscal Policy? -- Extraordinary Actions by Central Banks -- How Much Debt Is Too Much for a Country? -- How Exchange Rates Move the Global Economy -- Why Countries Try to Control Exchange Rates Disc 4: Three Macroeconomic Challenges of Our Time. International Trade and Finance Must Balance -- How Stocks and the Economy Shape Each Other -- Labor Market Policies for the Long Term -- Rising Inequality Is a Threat to All of Us -- Three Macroeconomic Challenges of Our Time.
Summary:
In 24 lectures, Macroeconomics Made Clear will introduce you to the subject that people have been theorizing about and modeling for almost 100 years. With easy-to-understand visuals and examples, Dr. Akila Weerapana of Wellesley College shows you the real-world applications of the key ideas in macroeconomics. Dr. Weerapana shows you how macroeconomics offers a hopeful tool for the future and sheds light on what we observe now. He focuses on the beginning of macroeconomics when the new field tried to explain the causes of the Great Depression, subsequent business cycles, the COVID-19 pandemic with its economic impacts, and several of our greatest global challenges of today.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.