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Introductory Macroeconomics

24 lessons

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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.

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Lecture 1: Macroeconomics Vs. Microeconomics, and Economic Modelling

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Lecture 2: What is Macroeconomics and What Macroeconomists Do?

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Lecture 4: Savings and Wealth

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Lecture 5: Interest Rates, Production Function, Employment

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Lecture 6: Monetary Economics

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Lecture 7: Demand, Supply and Equilibrium

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Lecture 8: Money, Economic Growth and Inflation

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Lecture 9: Supply of Money and Concept of Inflation

This lecture discusses the supply of money, the concept of inflation, the inflation process, and inflation tax. The lecture draws from the book Mystery of Banking.

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Lecture 10: Factors Determining Money Demand

This lecture discusses the factors determining Money Demand: (1) supply of goods and services, (2) clearing systems, (3) frequency of payments, (4) confidence in money, ands (5) inflationary expectations. Hyperinflation.

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Lecture 11: Introduction to Commercial Banking

In the previous lectures we discussed various aspects of money. This lecture shifts focus towards banking and provides an introduction to the topic of commercial banking. It briefly covers loan banking and begins deposit banking.

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Lecture 12: Deposit Banking

This lecture discusses deposit banking, fractional reserve banking, deposit multiplier, creating money out of "thin air", and the credit crunch.

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

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Lecture 14: Introduction to Central Banking

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Lecture 15: Tools of Monetary Policy

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

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Lecture 17: Negative Effects of Inflation

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Lecture 18: Effects of Inflation, Production and Capital

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

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Lecture 20: Economic Growth

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Lecture 21: Business Cycles - Part 1

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Lecture 22: Business Cycles - Part 2

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Lecture 23: Business Cycles - Part 3

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Lecture 24: Business Cycles - Part 4

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Lecture 25: Fiscal Policy

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