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Big Picture
Overview of Macro Topics (+ Review for final)
Components of GDP
Overview of Calculating GDP
Income Approach (AKA Factor, Factor Income Approach)
Value added approach to calculating GDP
Expenditure Approach Overview
Expenditure Approach Example
National Spending (AKA Expenditure) Overview
Relating the Expenditure, Income, and Value Added Approach
CPI and Inflation: Reciew & Practice
The Business Cycle
Stages, Characteristics and Causes
The AD Curve
(Playlist)
The AS Curves: SRAS and LRAS (Playlist)
AD & AS Model Overview (w/ textbook example)
Why is the Aggregate Demand Curve Downward Sloping?
Demand Shocks to Aggregate Demand Curve
Review: The AS/AD Model
Review: The Phillips Curve
Intertemporal Choice (CLAS)
Intertemporal Budget Constraint (Textbook Example)
Intertemporal Choice: Utility Maximization Over Two Time Periods
Solow Model (Playlist)
review + forumla explanations + examples
Production Possibilities Curve (Part 1)
Production Possibilities Curve (Part 2)
Comparative Advantage (Playlist)
How Changing the Interest Rate affects Savers and Borrowers
Natural Rate of Unemployment
Part 1
Part 2
Welfare Analysis: Think Vertically
Income Inequality: Lorenz Curve and Gini Coefficient
Demand & Marginal Benefit Curves
UCSB CLAS ECON & STATS