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Lecture 2: What is Macroeconomics and What Macroeconomists Do?

The second lecture in a university course at the American University in Bulgaria in introductory macroeconomics. Covers Chapter 1 of Bernanke's "Macroeconomics" textbook, answers the basic questions of what macroeconomics is about, what macroeconomists do, and schools of economic thought.

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Lecture 1: Macroeconomics Vs. Microeconomics, and Economic Modelling

Lecture 4: Savings and Wealth

Introductory Macroeconomics

24 lessons

Lecture 1: Macroeconomics Vs. Microeconomics, and Economic Modelling

Lecture 2: What is Macroeconomics and What Macroeconomists Do?

Lecture 4: Savings and Wealth

Lecture 5: Interest Rates, Production Function, Employment

Lecture 6: Monetary Economics

Lecture 7: Demand, Supply and Equilibrium

Lecture 8: Money, Economic Growth and Inflation

Lecture 9: Supply of Money and Concept of Inflation

Lecture 10: Factors Determining Money Demand

Lecture 11: Introduction to Commercial Banking

Lecture 12: Deposit Banking

Lecture 13: Credit Expansion, Bank Runs, and Deposit Drains

Lecture 14: Introduction to Central Banking

Lecture 15: Tools of Monetary Policy

Lecture 16: Credit Expansion, Government Deficits, and Debt Monetization

Lecture 17: Negative Effects of Inflation

Lecture 18: Effects of Inflation, Production and Capital

Lecture 19: Capital and Production, and How Saving and Interest Drive Consumption

Lecture 20: Economic Growth

Lecture 21: Business Cycles - Part 1

Lecture 22: Business Cycles - Part 2

Lecture 23: Business Cycles - Part 3

Lecture 24: Business Cycles - Part 4

Lecture 25: Fiscal Policy

Topics

Financial Analysis