This is an introductory course in macroeconomics offered at the American University in Bulgaria in Spring 2008. It provides extensive coverage of money, commercial and central banking, credit, credit expansion, business cycles, and the Austrian Theory of Business, Cycles with the theory of capital, interest, and inflation.
Introductory Macroeconomics
24 chapters
Chapters
- 1Lecture 1: Macroeconomics Vs. Microeconomics, and Economic ModellingRead free
- 2Lecture 2: What is Macroeconomics and What Macroeconomists Do?Read free
- 3Lecture 4: Savings and WealthRead free
- 4Lecture 5: Interest Rates, Production Function, EmploymentRead free
- 5Lecture 6: Monetary EconomicsRead free
- 6Lecture 7: Demand, Supply and EquilibriumRead free
- 7Lecture 8: Money, Economic Growth and InflationRead free
- 8Lecture 9: Supply of Money and Concept of InflationRead free
- 9Lecture 10: Factors Determining Money DemandRead free
- 10Lecture 11: Introduction to Commercial BankingRead free
- 11Lecture 12: Deposit BankingRead free
- 12Lecture 13: Credit Expansion, Bank Runs, and Deposit DrainsRead free
- 13Lecture 14: Introduction to Central BankingRead free
- 14Lecture 15: Tools of Monetary PolicyRead free
- 15Lecture 16: Credit Expansion, Government Deficits, and Debt MonetizationRead free
- 16Lecture 17: Negative Effects of InflationRead free
- 17Lecture 18: Effects of Inflation, Production and CapitalRead free
- 18Lecture 19: Capital and Production, and How Saving and Interest Drive ConsumptionRead free
- 19Lecture 20: Economic GrowthRead free
- 20Lecture 21: Business Cycles - Part 1Read free
- 21Lecture 22: Business Cycles - Part 2Read free
- 22Lecture 23: Business Cycles - Part 3Read free
- 23Lecture 24: Business Cycles - Part 4Read free
- 24Lecture 25: Fiscal PolicyRead free