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Macroeconomics Made Clear

12h 34m 14s
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In 24 revealing 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 illustrations, charts, and graphs, Dr. Akila Weerapana of Wellesley College shows you the real-world applications of the key ideas of macroeconomics, how macroeconomics sheds light on the present, and how it offers a hopeful tool for the future.

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Akila Weerapana

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Akila Weerapana is an Associate Professor of Economics at Wellesley College who earned a PhD in Economics from Stanford University. He has won Wellesley College’s Pinanski Teaching Prize and appeared in The Princeton Review’s Best 300 Professors. He is a coauthor of the textbook Principles of Economics and has published work in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, The Journal of Economic Education, and Economic Development and Cultural Change, among other publications.

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#1: 1 Viewing the world through a new lens
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1 Viewing the world through a new lens Demo
30:42
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2 GDP: The economy in a single number?
33:21
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3 Prices: How to quantify the danfers of inflation
28:32
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4 Uneployment:Who Want to work?
28:33
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5 How is money created and why?
30:21
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6 Is there such a thing as too much money?
30:42
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7 Two interest rates to rule them all?
27:40
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8 Why economic growth is so powerful and hard?
31:54
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9 Technology: The engine of sustained growth
30:57
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10 What are fundamental barriers to growth?
33:11
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11 How recessions occur and why they matter
33:26
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12 An intuitive model of economic recessions
32:06
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13 Lessons from past recessions
34:28
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14 What is good monetary or fiscal policy?
30:47
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15 Extraordinary actions by central banks
30:21
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16 How much debt is too much for a country
29:49
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17 How exchange rates move the global economy
32:18
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18 Why countries try to control exchange rates
31:21
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19 The euro: many nations under one currency?
32:43
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20 International trade and finance must balance
33:37
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21 How stocks and the economy shape each other
30:52
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22 Labor market policies for the long term
32:02
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23 Rising inequality is a threat to all of us
30:17
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24 Three macroeconomic challenges of our time
34:14
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