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