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دسته بندی: اقتصاد ویرایش: نویسندگان: The CORE Team سری: ISBN (شابک) : 1838165665, 9781838165666 ناشر: Core Economics Education سال نشر: 2022 تعداد صفحات: 1066 زبان: English فرمت فایل : PDF (درصورت درخواست کاربر به PDF، EPUB یا AZW3 تبدیل می شود) حجم فایل: 29 مگابایت
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Unit 1 The capitalist revolution 1.1 Income inequality Exercise 1.1 Inequality in the fourteenth century Exercise 1.2 Working with income data 1.2 Measuring income and living standards Disposable income Is our disposable income a good measure of our wellbeing? Average disposable income and average wellbeing Valuing government goods and services Exercise 1.3 What should we measure? Question 1.1 Choose the correct answer(s) Einstein Comparing income at different times, and across different countries The starting point: Nominal GDP Taking account of price changes over time: Real GDP Taking account of price differences among countries: International prices and purchasing power 1.3 History’s hockey stick: Growth in income Great economists Adam Smith Exercise 1.4 The advantages of ratio scales Question 1.2 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 1.3 Choose the correct answer(s) 1.4 The permanent technological revolution Technological change in lighting A connected world 1.5 The economy and the environment Exercise 1.5 How much difference does a couple of degrees warmer or colder make? Question 1.4 Choose the correct answer(s) 1.6 Capitalism defined: Private property, markets, and firms Private property Question 1.5 Choose the correct answer(s) Markets Exercise 1.6 The poorest man’s cottage Exercise 1.7 Markets and social networks Question 1.6 Choose the correct answer(s) Firm Defining capitalism precisely Exercise 1.8 Capitalism 1.7 Capitalism as an economic system How could capitalism lead to growth in living standards? Technology Specialization Exercise 1.9 Firm or not? 1.8 The gains from specialization Capitalism and specialization The division of labour in firms Markets, specialization, and comparative advantage Exercise 1.10 Apples and wheat 1.9 Capitalism, causation and history’s hockey stick How economists learn from facts Do institutions matter for growth in income? 1.10 Varieties of capitalism: Institutions, government, and the economy When is capitalism dynamic? Economic conditions Political conditions Political systems Question 1.7 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 1.8 Choose the correct answer(s) 1.11 Economics and the economy Exercise 1.11 Where and when would you choose to have been born? 1.12 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 1 1.13 References Unit 2 Technology, population, and growth Index of real wages Question 2.1 Choose the correct answer(s) 2.1 Economists, historians, and the Industrial Revolution 2.2 Economic models: How to see more by looking at less How models are used in economics Economic models Exercise 2.1 Designing a model 2.3 Basic concepts: Prices, costs, and innovation rents Ceteris paribus and simplification Exercise 2.2 Using ceteris paribus Incentives matter Relative prices Reservation positions and rents Question 2.2 Choose the correct answer(s) 2.4 Modelling a dynamic economy: Technology and costs What is a technology? How does a firm evaluate the cost of production using different technologies? Exercise 2.3 Isocost lines 2.5 Modelling a dynamic economy: Innovation and profit How does a cost-reducing innovation raise the profits of the firm? Question 2.3 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 2.4 Choose the correct answer(s) Great economists Joseph Schumpeter 2.6 The British Industrial Revolution and incentives for new technologies Exercise 2.4 Britain but not France Question 2.5 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 2.5 Why did the Industrial Revolution not happen in Asia? 2.7 Malthusian economics: Diminishing average product of labour Diminishing average product of labour Production function Exercise 2.6 The farmers’ production function Question 2.6 Choose the correct answer(s) 2.8 Malthusian economics: Population grows when living standards rise Exercise 2.7 Are people really like other animals? Malthusian economics: The effect of technological improvement Einstein Modelling Malthus Exercise 2.8 Living standards in the Malthusian world 2.9 The Malthusian trap and long-term economic stagnation Exercise 2.9 What would you add? Question 2.7 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 2.10 Defining economic progress 2.10 Escaping from Malthusian stagnation Question 2.8 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 2.11 The basic institutions of capitalism 2.11 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 2 2.12 References Unit 3 Scarcity, work, and choice Question 3.1 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 3.2 Choose the correct answer(s) 3.1 Labour and production Exercise 3.1 Ceteris paribus assumptions Exercise 3.2 Production functions Marginal product Question 3.3 Choose the correct answer(s) 3.2 Preferences Exercise 3.3 Why indifference curves never cross Exercise 3.4 Your marginal rate of substitution Question 3.4 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 3.5 Choose the correct answer(s) 3.3 Opportunity costs Question 3.6 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 3.5 Opportunity costs 3.4 The feasible set Question 3.7 Choose the correct answer(s) 3.5 Decision making and scarcity Exercise 3.6 Exploring scarcity Question 3.8 Choose the correct answer(s) 3.6 Hours of work and economic growth Question 3.9 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 3.7 Your production function 3.7 Income and substitution effects on hours of work and free time Income and substitution effects Technological progress Question 3.10 Choose the correct answer(s) 3.8 Is this a good model? Trial and error replaces calculations The influence of culture and politics Exercise 3.8 Another definition of economics 3.9 Explaining our working hours: Changes over time Question 3.11 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 3.9 Scarcity and choice 3.10 Explaining our working hours: Differences between countries Exercise 3.10 Preferences and culture Exercise 3.11 Working hours across countries and time 3.11 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 3 3.12 References Unit 4 Social interactions The Tragedy of the Commons Resolving social dilemmas Exercise 4.1 Social dilemmas 4.1 Social interactions: Game theory Social and strategic interactions Game Question 4.1 Choose the correct answer(s) 4.2 Equilibrium in the invisible hand game Question 4.2 Choose the correct answer(s) When economists disagree Homo economicus in question: Are people entirely selfish? 4.3 The prisoners’ dilemma The prisoners’ dilemma Question 4.3 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 4.2 Political advertising 4.4 Social preferences: Altruism Altruistic preferences as indifference curves Exercise 4.3 Altruism and selflessness Question 4.4 Choose the correct answer(s) 4.5 Altruistic preferences in the prisoners’ dilemma Question 4.5 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 4.4 Amoral self-interest 4.6 Public goods, free riding, and repeated interaction Great economists Elinor Ostrom Repeated games Question 4.6 Choose the correct answer(s) 4.7 Public good contributions and peer punishment 4.8 Behavioural experiments in the lab and in the field How economists learn from facts Laboratory experiments Question 4.7 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 4.5 Are lab experiments always valid? Question 4.8 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 4.6 Crowding out 4.9 Cooperation, negotiation, conflicts of interest, and social norms Negotiation: Sharing mutual gains Question 4.9 Choose the correct answer(s) 4.10 Dividing a pie (or leaving it on the table) Einstein When will an offer in the ultimatum game be accepted? Exercise 4.7 Acceptable offers 4.11 Fair farmers, self-interested students? Exercise 4.8 Social preferences Exercise 4.9 Offers in the ultimatum game Question 4.10 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 4.11 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 4.10 Strikes and the ultimatum game 4.12 Competition in the ultimatum game Exercise 4.11 A sequential prisoners’ dilemma 4.13 Social interactions: Conflicts in the choice among Nash equilibria Great economists John Nash Resolving conflict Exercise 4.12 Conflict between Astrid and Bettina Exercise 4.13 Conflict in business Question 4.12 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 4.14 Nash equilibria and climate change 4.14 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 4 4.15 References Unit 5 Property and power: Mutual gains and conflict 5.1 Institutions and power Institutions Power The power to say no 5.2 Evaluating institutions and outcomes: The Pareto criterion The Pareto criterion Great economists Vilfredo Pareto Pareto efficiency Question 5.1 Choose the correct answer(s) 5.3 Evaluating institutions and outcomes: Fairness Substantive and procedural judgements Substantive judgements Exercise 5.1 Substantive fairness Procedural judgements Exercise 5.2 Procedural fairness Evaluating fairness Exercise 5.3 Splitting the profits in a partnership 5.4 A model of choice and conflict Angela works the land on her own A new character appears Exercise 5.4 Using indifference curves Question 5.2 Choose the correct answer(s) 5.5 Technically feasible allocations Exercise 5.5 Changing conditions for production Question 5.3 Choose the correct answer(s) 5.6 Allocations imposed by force Question 5.4 Choose the correct answer(s) New institutions: Law and private property 5.7 Economically feasible allocations and the surplus Exercise 5.6 Biological and economic feasibility Exercise 5.7 Why Angela works for 8 hours Exercise 5.8 Take it or leave it? Question 5.5 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 5.6 Choose the correct answer(s) 5.8 The Pareto efficiency curve and the distribution of the surplus Pareto efficiency and the Pareto efficiency curve Question 5.7 Choose the correct answer(s) 5.9 Politics: Sharing the surplus Question 5.8 Choose the correct answer(s) 5.10 Bargaining to a Pareto-efficient sharing of the surplus Question 5.9 Choose the correct answer(s) 5.11 Angela and Bruno: The moral of the story 5.12 Measuring economic inequality The Gini coefficient Comparing income distributions and inequality across the world Question 5.10 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 5.9 Comparing distributions of wealth Einstein Inequality as differences among people Approximating the Gini using the Lorenz curve 5.13 A policy to redistribute the surplus and raise efficiency Efficiency and fairness Einstein The Lorenz curve and the Gini coefficient in a class-divided economy with a large population 5.14 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 5 5.15 References Unit 6 The firm: Owners, managers, and employees 6.1 Firms, markets, and the division of labour Great economists Herbert Simon The coordination of work Contracts and relationships Exercise 6.1 The structure of an organization Question 6.1 Choose the correct answer(s) 6.2 Other people’s money: The separation of ownership and control Question 6.2 Choose the correct answer(s) 6.3 Other people’s labour Exercise 6.2 Incomplete contracts Great economists Karl Marx Question 6.3 Choose the correct answer(s) 6.4 Employment rents How economists learn from facts Managers exert power When economists agree Coase and Marx on the firm and its employees Counting the cost of job loss How economists learn from facts How large are employment rents? Question 6.4 Choose the correct answer(s) 6.5 Determinants of the employment rent Exercise 6.3 Assumptions of the model Question 6.5 Choose the correct answer(s) 6.6 Work and wages: The labour discipline model The employee’s best response Question 6.6 Choose the correct answer(s) 6.7 Wages, effort, and profits in the labour discipline model Involuntary unemployment Exercise 6.4 The employer sets the wage Question 6.7 Choose the correct answer(s) 6.8 Putting the model to work: Owners, employees, and the economy Exercise 6.5 Effort and wages How economists learn from facts Workers speed up when the economy slows down Exercise 6.6 Lazear’s results Exercise 6.7 Outsourcing comes home Question 6.8 Choose the correct answer(s) 6.9 Another kind of business organization Exercise 6.8 A worker-owned cooperative Great economists John Stuart Mill Exercise 6.9 Was Mill wrong? 6.10 Principals and agents: Interactions under incomplete contracts Why are contracts incomplete? Principal–agent models Verifiable information, asymmetric information Exercise 6.10 Principal–agent relationships 6.11 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 6 6.12 References Unit 7 The firm and its customers 7.1 Breakfast cereal: Choosing a price How economists learn from facts Estimating demand curves using surveys Question 7.1 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 7.2 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 7.3 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 7.1 Changes in the market 7.2 Economies of scale and the cost advantages of large-scale production Economies and diseconomies of scale Cost advantages Demand advantages Question 7.4 Choose the correct answer(s) Einstein The size and cost of a pipe Diseconomies of scale: CORE’s Dilbert law of firm hierarchy 7.3 Production: The cost function for Beautiful Cars Marginal cost Question 7.5 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 7.6 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 7.2 The cost function for Apple-Cinnamon Cheerios Exercise 7.3 Cost functions for university education 7.4 Demand and isoprofit curves: Beautiful Cars The demand curve Question 7.7 Choose the correct answer(s) The isoprofit curves Question 7.8 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 7.4 Looking at isoprofit curves 7.5 Setting price and quantity to maximize profit Constrained optimization Constrained optimization Question 7.9 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 7.10 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 7.11 Choose the correct answer(s) 7.6 Looking at profit maximization as marginal revenue and marginal cost Question 7.12 Choose the correct answer(s) 7.7 Gains from trade Consumer surplus, producer surplus, profit Pareto efficiency Exercise 7.5 Changing the rules of the game Question 7.13 Choose the correct answer(s) 7.8 The elasticity of demand Question 7.14 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 7.15 Choose the correct answer(s) Einstein The elasticity of demand and the marginal revenue The size of the markup chosen by the firm 7.9 Using demand elasticities in government policy Exercise 7.6 Elasticity and expenditure Exercise 7.7 Food taxes and health 7.10 Price-setting, competition, and market power Great economists Augustin Cournot Market failure Competition policy Exercise 7.8 Multinationals or independent retailers? Question 7.16 Choose the correct answer(s) 7.11 Product selection, innovation, and advertising 7.12 Prices, costs, and market failure 7.13 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 7 7.14 References Unit 8 Supply and demand: Price-taking and competitive markets 8.1 Buying and selling: Demand and supply Question 8.1 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 8.1 Selling strategies and reservation prices 8.2 The market and the equilibrium price Great economists Alfred Marshall Price-taking Exercise 8.2 Price-takers Question 8.2 Choose the correct answer(s) 8.3 Price-taking firms Price-taking firm Question 8.3 Choose the correct answer(s) 8.4 Market supply and equilibrium Question 8.4 Choose the correct answer(s) 8.5 Competitive equilibrium: Gains from trade, allocation, and distribution Pareto efficiency Price-taking A complete contract No effects on others Fairness Exercise 8.3 Maximizing the surplus Exercise 8.4 Surplus and deadweight loss Question 8.5 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 8.6 Choose the correct answer(s) Einstein Total surplus and WTP 8.6 Changes in supply and demand An increase in demand An increase in supply due to improved productivity An increase in supply: More bakeries enter the market Exercise 8.5 The market for quinoa Exercise 8.6 Prices, shocks, and revolutions Question 8.7 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 8.8 Choose the correct answer(s) 8.7 The effects of taxes Using taxes to raise revenue Using taxes to change behaviour Exercise 8.7 The deadweight loss of the butter tax Question 8.9 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 8.10 Choose the correct answer(s) 8.8 The model of perfect competition Perfect competition Great economists Léon Walras Exercise 8.8 Price-fixing Question 8.11 Choose the correct answer(s) 8.9 Looking for competitive equilibria Exercise 8.9 Price dispersion Exercise 8.10 The Fulton Fish Market 8.10 Price-setting and price-taking firms 8.11 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 8 8.12 References Unit 9 The labour market: Wages, profits, and unemployment 9.1 The wage-setting curve, the price-setting curve, and the labour market The labour market Firms and employees Firms and customers Wages and employment Question 9.1 Choose the correct answer(s) 9.2 Measuring the economy: Employment and unemployment Exercise 9.1 Employment, unemployment, and participation Question 9.2 Choose the correct answer(s) 9.3 The wage-setting curve: Employment and real wages Simplifying the model Exercise 9.2 Shifts in the wage-setting curve Question 9.3 Choose the correct answer(s) 9.4 The firm’s hiring decision Question 9.4 Choose the correct answer(s) 9.5 The price-setting curve: Wages and profits in the whole economy Exercise 9.3 The price-setting curve Question 9.5 Choose the correct answer(s) Einstein The price-setting curve Step 1: The firm sets its price Step 2: The price level in the economy as a whole and the real wage Step 3: Profits, wages, and the price-setting curve 9.6 Wages, profits, and unemployment in the whole economy Unemployment as a characteristic of labour market equilibrium Exercise 9.4 Is this really a Nash equilibrium? Question 9.6 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 9.7 Choose the correct answer(s) 9.7 How changes in demand for goods and services affect unemployment What could go wrong? Worker resistance to a reduction in the nominal wage Wage and price reductions might not lead to higher sales and employment The role of government policy Exercise 9.5 Wages and aggregate demand Question 9.8 Choose the correct answer(s) 9.8 Labour market equilibrium and the distribution of income Factors that affect labour market equilibrium: Unemployment and inequality Question 9.9 Choose the correct answer(s) Einstein The Lorenz curve and the Gini coefficient in an economy with unemployed, employed, and employers (owners) 9.9 Labour supply, labour demand, and bargaining power Changes in labour supply: The effects of immigration Exercise 9.6 Immigration of entrepreneurs Question 9.10 Choose the correct answer(s) 9.10 Labour unions: Bargained wages and the union voice effect Labour unions and the bargained wage-setting curve The union voice effect Question 9.11 Choose the correct answer(s) 9.11 Labour market policies to address unemployment and inequality The effect of policies that shift the price-setting curve Education and training A wage subsidy The effect of policies that shift the wage-setting curve 9.12 Looking backward: Baristas and bread markets Taking a price, setting a price Complete and incomplete contracts Pareto efficiency and unexploited opportunities for mutual gains The politics and sociology of markets Question 9.12 Choose the correct answer(s) 9.13 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 9 9.14 References Unit 10 Banks, money, and the credit market 10.1 Money and wealth Money Wealth Income Expenditure Question 10.1 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 10.2 Choose the correct answer(s) 10.2 Borrowing: Bringing consumption forward in time 10.3 Impatience and the diminishing marginal returns to consumption Smoothing Pure impatience, or how impatient you are as a person Impatience Exercise 10.1 The consequences of pure impatience Question 10.3 Choose the correct answer(s) 10.4 Borrowing allows smoothing by bringing consumption to the present A person’s discount rate Exercise 10.2 Income and substitution effects Question 10.4 Choose the correct answer(s) 10.5 Lending and storing: Smoothing and moving consumption to the future 10.6 Investing: Another way to move consumption to the future Exercise 10.3 An increase in the interest rate Exercise 10.4 Lifetime income Question 10.5 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 10.6 Choose the correct answer(s) 10.7 Assets, liabilities, and net worth Question 10.7 Choose the correct answer(s) 10.8 Banks, money, and the central bank Types of money Question 10.8 Choose the correct answer(s) 10.9 The central bank, the money market, and interest rates Exercise 10.5 Interest rate markups Einstein Present value (PV) Net present value (NPV) Bond prices and yields 10.10 The business of banking and bank balance sheets Leverage for non-banks Question 10.9 Choose the correct answer(s) 10.11 The central bank’s policy rate can affect spending Question 10.10 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 10.6 Interest rates and consumption spending 10.12 Credit market constraints: A principal–agent problem Question 10.11 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 10.7 Microfinance and lending to the poor 10.13 Inequality: Lenders, borrowers, and those excluded from credit markets Question 10.12 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 10.8 Unpopular banks Exercise 10.9 Limits on lending 10.14 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 10 10.15 References Unit 11 Rent-seeking, price-setting, and market dynamics Great economists Friedrich Hayek Question 11.1 Choose the correct answer(s) 11.1 How people changing prices to gain rents can lead to a market equilibrium Market equilibration through rent-seeking Einstein Equilibration through rent-seeking in an experimental market Exercise 11.1 A supply shock and adjustment to a new market Exercise 11.2 Cotton prices and the American Civil War Question 11.2 Choose the correct answer(s) 11.2 How market organization can influence prices 11.3 Short-run and long-run equilibria Short-run and long-run elasticities Question 11.3 Choose the correct answer(s) 11.4 Prices, rent-seeking, and market dynamics at work: Oil prices Short-run supply and demand The 1970s oil price shocks The 2000–2008 oil price shock Exercise 11.3 The world market for oil Exercise 11.4 The shale oil revolution 11.5 The value of an asset: Basics Bonds Stocks Risk Trading strategies How economists learn from facts The wisdom of crowds: The weight of stock (oxen) and the value of stocks Question 11.4 Choose the correct answer(s) 11.6 Changing supply and demand for financial assets Exercise 11.5 Supply and demand curves Question 11.5 Choose the correct answer(s) 11.7 Asset market bubbles Information, uncertainty, and beliefs When economists disagree Do bubbles exist? Exercise 11.6 Markets for gems Question 11.6 Choose the correct answer(s) 11.8 Modelling bubbles and crashes How do bubbles come to an end? Exercise 11.7 What is the fundamental value of a Bitcoin? Exercise 11.8 The big ten asset price bubbles of the last 400 years Question 11.7 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 11.8 Choose the correct answer(s) 11.9 Non-clearing markets: Rationing, queuing, and secondary markets Exercise 11.9 IOC policy Exercise 11.10 The price of a ticket Question 11.9 Choose the correct answer(s) 11.10 Markets with controlled prices Exercise 11.11 Why not raise the price? Question 11.10 Choose the correct answer(s) 11.11 The role of economic rents Question 11.11 Choose the correct answer(s) 11.12 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 11 11.13 References Unit 12 Markets, efficiency, and public policy Exercise 12.1 Property rights and contracts in Madagascar 12.1 Market failure: External effects of pollution Question 12.1 Choose the correct answer(s) 12.2 External effects and bargaining Great economists Ronald Coase Exercise 12.2 Bargaining power Exercise 12.3 A positive externality Question 12.2 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 12.3 Choose the correct answer(s) 12.3 External effects: Policies and income distribution Regulation Taxation Enforcing compensation Diagnosis and treatment in the case of chlordecone Great economists Arthur Pigou Exercise 12.4 Pigouvian subsidy Exercise 12.5 Comparing policies Question 12.4 Choose the correct answer(s) 12.4 Property rights, contracts, and market failures Exercise 12.6 Incomplete contracts 12.5 Public goods Exercise 12.7 Rivalry and excludability Question 12.5 Choose the correct answer(s) 12.6 Missing markets: Insurance and lemons Hidden actions and moral hazard Hidden attributes and adverse selection Hidden attributes and adverse selection Adverse selection in the insurance market Moral hazard in the insurance market Exercise 12.8 Hidden attributes Question 12.6 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 12.7 Choose the correct answer(s) 12.7 Incomplete contracts and external effects in credit markets Question 12.8 Choose the correct answer(s) 12.8 The limits of markets What determines the balance between firms and markets? Repugnant markets Merit goods Exercise 12.9 Capitalism among consenting adults 12.9 Market failure and government policy Looking ahead: A broader role for governments Exercise 12.10 Market failure 12.10 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 12 12.11 References Unit 13 Economic fluctuations and unemployment Correlation may not be causation Exercise 13.1 The OECD Better Life Index 13.1 Growth and fluctuations Exercise 13.2 Defining recessions Question 13.1 Choose the correct answer(s) Einstein Ratio scales and logarithms 13.2 Output growth and changes in unemployment Exercise 13.3 Okun’s Law Question 13.2 Choose the correct answer(s) Einstein Okun’s law 13.3 Measuring the aggregate economy 13.4 Measuring the aggregate economy: The components of GDP Consumption (C) Investment (I) Government spending on goods and services (G) Exports (X) Imports (M) Net exports (X − M) GDP (Y) Shortcomings of GDP as a measure Exercise 13.4 How to use FRED Question 13.3 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 13.4 Choose the correct answer(s) 13.5 How households cope with fluctuations Household shocks Economy-wide shocks Exercise 13.5 Health insurance Question 13.5 Choose the correct answer(s) 13.6 Why is consumption smooth? Credit constraints Weakness of will How economists learn from facts My diet starts tomorrow Limited co-insurance Exercise 13.6 Changes in income, changes in consumption Question 13.6 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 13.7 Choose the correct answer(s) 13.7 Why is investment volatile? Coordination game Exercise 13.7 Consulting FRED Question 13.8 Choose the correct answer(s) 13.8 Measuring the economy: Inflation What is inflation? Exercise 13.8 Measuring inflation Exercise 13.9 The CPI and the GDP deflator 13.9 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 13 13.10 References Unit 14 Unemployment and fiscal policy 14.1 The transmission of shocks: The multiplier process 14.2 The multiplier model Question 14.1 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 14.2 Choose the correct answer(s) Einstein Calculating the multiplier 14.3 Household target wealth, collateral, and consumption spending Exercise 14.1 A household’s balance sheet Exercise 14.2 Housing in France and Germany Question 14.3 Choose the correct answer(s) 14.4 Investment spending Question 14.4 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 14.5 Choose the correct answer(s) 14.5 The multiplier model: Including the government and net exports Consumption Investment Government spending Net exports Exercise 14.3 The multiplier model Question 14.6 Choose the correct answer(s) Einstein The multiplier in an economy with a government and foreign trade 14.6 Fiscal policy: How governments can dampen and amplify fluctuations The paradox of thrift and the fallacy of composition Great economists John Maynard Keynes How governments can amplify fluctuations Exercise 14.4 Spending cuts in a recession Question 14.7 Choose the correct answer(s) 14.7 The multiplier and economic policymaking Crowding out How economists learn from facts The Mafia and the multiplier When economists disagree How responsive is the economy to government spending? Exercise 14.5 Methods to estimate the multiplier Exercise 14.6 Contributions to change in real gross domestic product over the business cycle Exercise 14.7 The fall of France Exercise 14.8 Stimulus without more debt Question 14.8 Choose the correct answer(s) 14.8 The government’s finances Revenue Expenditure Government primary deficit Exercise 14.9 Efficiency and fairness 14.9 Fiscal policy and the rest of the world Foreign markets matter Imports dampen domestic fluctuations Trade constrains the use of fiscal stimulus Exercise 14.10 Coordinating a stimulus Question 14.9 Choose the correct answer(s) 14.10 Aggregate demand and unemployment Question 14.10 Choose the correct answer(s) 14.11 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 14 14.12 References Unit 15 Inflation, unemployment, and monetary policy 15.1 What’s wrong with inflation? Describing a change in price level Question 15.1 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 15.2 Choose the correct answer(s) 15.2 Inflation results from conflicting and inconsistent claims on output Great economists Bill Phillips Question 15.3 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 15.4 Choose the correct answer(s) 15.3 Inflation, the business cycle, and the Phillips curve The bargaining gap and the Phillips curve Bargaining gap Exercise 15.1 The bargaining gap in a recession Exercise 15.2 Positive and negative shocks Question 15.5 Choose the correct answer(s) 15.4 Inflation and unemployment: Constraints and preferences Exercise 15.3 The Phillips curve and the policymaker’s preferences 15.5 What happened to the Phillips curve? 15.6 Expected inflation and the Phillips curve Introducing expected inflation The shifting Phillips curve Exercise 15.4 A negative aggregate demand shock with high unemployment Exercise 15.5 Inflation, expected inflation, and the bargaining gap Question 15.6 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 15.7 Choose the correct answer(s) 15.7 Supply shocks and inflation Exercise 15.6 An oil shock Einstein The price-setting curve with imported materials The markup price-setting equation for the firm 15.8 Monetary policy The transmission of monetary policy Market interest rates Asset prices Profit expectations and confidence Exchange rate A warning The zero lower bound How is QE supposed to work? No national monetary policy Exercise 15.7 Fiscal or monetary policy? Question 15.8 Choose the correct answer(s) Einstein The real interest rate and the Fisher equation 15.9 The exchange rate channel of monetary policy Exercise 15.8 Why bonds? Question 15.9 Choose the correct answer(s) 15.10 Demand shocks and demand-side policies The recession and the policy response The recession and the model Exercise 15.9 A construction boom 15.11 Macroeconomic policy before the global financial crisis: Inflation-targeting policy Question 15.10 Choose the correct answer(s) 15.12 Another reason for rising inflation at low unemployment 15.13 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 15 15.14 References Unit 16 Technological progress, employment, and living standards in the long run Exercise 16.1 Wealth and life satisfaction Question 16.1 Choose the correct answer(s) 16.1 Technological progress and living standards Question 16.2 Choose the correct answer(s) 16.2 The job creation and destruction process Exercise 16.2 Schumpeter revisited 16.3 Job flows, worker flows, and the Beveridge curve The Beveridge curve Exercise 16.3 Beveridge curves and the German labour market Question 16.3 Choose the correct answer(s) 16.4 Investment, firm entry, and the price-setting curve in the long run Determinants of economic performance in the long run From the equilibrium markup to the price-setting curve in the long run The long-run price-setting curve Exercise 16.4 Measuring the conditions for investment Question 16.4 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 16.5 Choose the correct answer(s) 16.5 New technology, wages, and unemployment in the long run New knowledge and new technology: The innovation diffusion gap Adjustment to technological change: The employment and wage adjustment gap Lessons from creative destruction and consumption smoothing Question 16.6 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 16.7 Choose the correct answer(s) 16.6 Technological change and income inequality Exercise 16.5 Technological progress and inequality Question 16.8 Choose the correct answer(s) 16.7 How long does it take for labour markets to adjust to shocks? 16.8 Institutions and policies: Why do some countries do better than others? Exercise 16.6 You are the policymaker Question 16.9 Choose the correct answer(s) 16.9 Technological change, labour markets, and trade unions The Nordic case: Inclusive unions and employers’ associations The Japanese case: Inclusive employers’ associations The Spanish case: Non-inclusive unions Unemployment benefits and unemployment Exercise 16.7 Unemployment rates and labour market institutions Question 16.10 Choose the correct answer(s) 16.10 Changes in institutions and policies Exercise 16.8 The labour market model 16.11 Slower productivity growth in services, and the changing nature of work The rise and fall of manufacturing employment The economics of slower productivity growth in services Einstein How faster productivity growth in goods production may shift employment from goods to services Question 16.11 Choose the correct answer(s) 16.12 Wages and unemployment in the long run 16.13 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 16 16.14 References Unit 17 The Great Depression, golden age, and global financial crisis How economists learn from facts ‘I made a mistake’ 17.1 Three economic epochs Question 17.1 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 17.2 Choose the correct answer(s) 17.2 The Great Depression, positive feedbacks, and aggregate demand Exercise 17.1 Farmers in the Great Depression 17.3 Policymakers in the Great Depression Fiscal policy in the Great Depression Monetary policy in the Great Depression The gold standard A change in expectations The Great Depression Exercise 17.2 Advantages and disadvantages of fixed exchange rates Question 17.3 Choose the correct answer(s) 17.4 The golden age of high growth and low unemployment The golden age of capitalism 17.5 Workers and employers in the golden age Question 17.4 Choose the correct answer(s) 17.6 The end of the golden age Question 17.5 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 17.6 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 17.7 Choose the correct answer(s) 17.7 After stagflation: The fruits of a new policy regime Exercise 17.3 Workers’ bargaining power 17.8 Before the financial crisis: Households, banks, and the credit boom The great moderation and the global financial crisis Housing booms and the financial accelerator Financial deregulation and subprime borrowers Financial deregulation and bank leverage The subprime housing crisis of 2007 Great economists Hyman Minsky Exercise 17.4 Household wealth as a balance sheet Question 17.8 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 17.9 Choose the correct answer(s) 17.9 Modelling housing bubbles Tipping point Exercise 17.5 Differences between equilibrium and stability Question 17.10 Choose the correct answer(s) 17.10 The financial crisis and the great recession Exercise 17.6 The crisis and the multiplier Question 17.11 Choose the correct answer(s) 17.11 The role of banks in the crisis House prices and bank solvency Bank liquidity and the credit crunch Fire sales: A positive feedback process Governments rescue banks Exercise 17.7 How conventional wisdom on financial markets contributed to the global financial crisis Exercise 17.8 Behaviour in the financial crisis Question 17.12 Choose the correct answer(s) 17.12 The economy as teacher Exercise 17.9 Banking regulations can help bring on financial crises Exercise 17.10 Hoover’s balanced budget Exercise 17.11 Austerity policy 17.13 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 17 17.14 References Unit 18 The nation and the world economy 18.1 Globalization and deglobalization in the long run Exercise 18.1 Price gaps that did and didn’t fall Exercise 18.2 Learning more about tariffs Question 18.1 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 18.2 Choose the correct answer(s) 18.2 Globalization and investment Balance of payments account (BP) Current account (CA) Exercise 18.3 International capital flows: Does capital flow from richer to poorer countries? Question 18.3 Choose the correct answer(s) 18.3 Globalization and migration Question 18.4 Choose the correct answer(s) 18.4 Specialization and the gains from trade among nations Economies of agglomeration Exercise 18.4 Assess some country production specialization patterns 18.5 Specialization, factor endowments, and trade between countries Diversification in the absence of trade Trade and specialization Gains from trade Great economists David Ricardo Exercise 18.5 Comparative advantage Exercise 18.6 Power and bargaining Question 18.5 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 18.6 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 18.7 Choose the correct answer(s) 18.6 Winners and losers from trade and specialization Exercise 18.7 Winners and losers from specialization due to economies of scale Question 18.8 Choose the correct answer(s) Exercise 18.8 The collapse of the Soviet Union 18.7 Winners and losers in the very long run and along the way Question 18.9 Choose the correct answer(s) 18.8 Migration: Globalization of labour Exercise 18.9 The economic effects of immigration 18.9 Globalization and anti-globalization Exercise 18.10 Rodrik’s Trilemma Exercise 18.11 Examine the respective strengths and costs of economic independence, and interdependency 18.10 Trade and growth Exercise 18.12 The effect of trade on growth When economists disagree Heckscher–Ohlin, the Leontief paradox, and the new trade theory 18.11 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 18 18.12 References Unit 19 Economic inequality Exercise 19.1 Income variation across and within countries 19.1 Inequality across the world and over time Wealth, earnings, market income and disposable income Income inequalities over time and among countries Inequalities between and within nations A glimpse into the future of the rich economies: The missing middle? Exercise 19.2 Inequalities among your classmates Question 19.1 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 19.2 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 19.3 Choose the correct answer(s) Einstein The Gini coefficient and worldwide income differences Exercise 19.3 Another way to interpret Gini coefficients 19.2. Accidents of birth: Another lens to study inequality Gender and other forms of categorical inequality Intergenerational inequality Exercise 19.4 How inequalities of birth persist between generations Question 19.4 Choose the correct answer(s) 19.3 What (if anything) is wrong with inequality? Perceived, ideal and actual inequalities When is inequality unfair? Exercise 19.5 Estimated, ideal, and actual distributions of wealth Exercise 19.6 A level playing field 19.4 How much inequality is too much (or too little)? A lens for looking at unfairness: The veil of ignorance. Feasible inequality A preference for fairness Question 19.5 Choose the correct answer(s) 19.5 Endowments, technology, and institutions Income and endowments Using the model to review inequality from previous units How endowments, technology, institutions, and inequality interact over time Exercise 19.7 Yichen, Renfu, Mark, and Stephanie 19.6 Inequality, endowments, and principal–agent relationships Question 19.6 Choose the correct answer(s) 19.7 Putting the model to work: Explaining changes in inequality A more educated and more productive workforce A reduction in labour market segmentation Automation Exercise 19.8 How automation affects employment Question 19.7 Choose the correct answer(s) 19.8 Predistribution Exercise 19.9 Non-compete contracts in the labour market model Question 19.8 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 19.9 Choose the correct answer(s) 19.9 Explaining recent trends in inequality in market income 19.10 Redistribution: Taxes and transfers Differences among economies in the extent and nature of redistribution The welfare state Progressive and regressive redistribution How economists learn from facts What is the best way to give money to the poor? Randomize and find out. Exercise 19.10 Regressive and progressive taxes 19.11 Equality and economic performance Exercise 19.11 The U-turn countries Exercise 19.12 High and low performers Question 19.10 Choose the correct answer(s) 19.12 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 19 19.13 References Unit 20 Economics of the environment Question 20.1 Choose the correct answer(s) 20.1 Recap: External effects, incomplete contracts, and missing markets Question 20.2 Choose the correct answer(s) 20.2 Climate change Climate change and economic activity Exercise 20.1 Assessing the economic impacts of global warming Exercise 20.2 Climate change causes and evidence Question 20.3 Choose the correct answer(s) 20.3 The abatement of environmental damages: Cost-benefit analysis Abatement costs and the feasible set Environment-consumption indifference curves Cost-benefit analysis: The ideal policymaker chooses an abatement level Exercise 20.3 Choosing abatement strategies Exercise 20.4 Optimistic and pessimistic policies Question 20.4 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 20.5 Choose the correct answer(s) Einstein Marginal abatement costs and the total productivity of abatement expenditures 20.4 Conflicts of interest: Bargaining over wages, pollution, and jobs The firm has all the bargaining power Citizens have all the bargaining power Dividing the mutual gains Question 20.6 Choose the correct answer(s) 20.5 Cap and trade environmental policies Cap and trade: Examples of emissions trading How high should the price of carbon emissions be? Exercise 20.5 Assessing cap and trade policies Exercise 20.6 A successful tradable emissions permit program Exercise 20.7 Would a carbon tax reduce emissions more than regulation? 20.6 The measurement challenges of environmental policy Contingent valuation Hedonic pricing How economists learn from facts Natural capital and green growth When economists disagree Willingness to pay versus the right to a livable environment Exercise 20.8 Wealth and natural capital Question 20.7 Choose the correct answer(s) 20.7 Dynamic environmental policies: Future technologies and lifestyles Prices, quantities and green innovation Environmental policy and long-term changes in lifestyles How economists learn from facts Social preferences and environmental sustainability Exercise 20.9 Improvements in technology Exercise 20.10 The price elasticity of demand Question 20.8 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 20.9 Choose the correct answer(s) 20.8 Environmental dynamics Multiple equilibria and tipping points Environmental tipping point Climate change and environmental collapse Prudential policies to address tipping points Exercise 20.11 Representing regime shifts Exercise 20.12 Self-reinforcing processes 20.9 Why is addressing climate change so difficult? International cooperation Unrepresented generations When economists disagree The discounting dilemma: How should we account for future costs and benefits? Exercise 20.13 Simulating different discount rates Question 20.10 Choose the correct answer(s) 20.10 Policy choices matter Differences between countries Lessons from the existence of win-win policies Is ‘make the polluter pay’ fair? Exercise 20.14 High and low performers Question 20.11 Choose the correct answer(s) 20.11 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 20 20.12 References Unit 21 Innovation, information, and the networked economy Exercise 21.1 Patents and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry 21.1 The innovation process: Invention and diffusion Invention and innovation Radical innovation Incremental innovation Diffusion When economists disagree The end of the permanent technological revolution? Exercise 21.2 The permanent technological revolution Question 21.1 Choose the correct answer(s) 21.2 Innovation systems The Silicon Valley innovation system The German innovation system The economics of innovation systems Exercise 21.3 Comparing innovation systems Question 21.2 Choose the correct answer(s) 21.3 External effects: Complements, substitutes, and coordination Innovations that are complements Innovations that are substitutes The role of public policy Complements Substitutes and standards Exercise 21.4 Complements Exercise 21.5 Substitutes and complements Question 21.3 Choose the correct answer(s) 21.4 Economies of scale and winner-take-all competition The supply side: First copy costs and economies of scale in production The demand side: Economies of scale through network effects Question 21.4 Choose the correct answer(s) 21.5 Matching (two-sided) markets Matching (two-sided) markets A model of a two-sided matching market Market failures in matching markets A catalogue of policies Exercise 21.6 Understanding matching markets Exercise 21.7 Why do curves in the matching markets model slope upwards? Exercise 21.8 Mismatched posters and seekers in a matching market model Exercise 21.9 Chicken-and-egg Question 21.5 Choose the correct answer(s) 21.6 Intellectual property rights Intellectual property rights Patents Trademarks Copyright How intellectual property rights affect innovation Creative commons licensing When economists disagree Intellectual property rights: Dynamo or drag? Exercise 21.10 Thomas Jefferson Exercise 21.11 How copyright improved Italian opera, and how such protection should be limited Exercise 21.12 Intellectual property rights Question 21.6 Choose the correct answer(s) 21.7 Optimal patents: Balancing the objectives of invention and diffusion The trade-off between the benefits of diffusion and of invention Feasible invention and diffusion Optimal patent duration Exercise 21.13 Optimal patents Question 21.7 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 21.8 Choose the correct answer(s) 21.8 Public funding of basic research, education, and information infrastructure Government-funded research Competitions and prizes Exercise 21.14 Government-funded research Question 21.9 Choose the correct answer(s) Question 21.10 Choose the correct answer(s) 21.9 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 21 21.10 References Unit 22 Economics, politics, and public policy 22.1 The government as an economic actor Coercion and providing public services Part of the solution Part of the problem Exercise 22.1 Building self-control into government Exercise 22.2 The relationship between economic development and size of government 22.2 Government acting as a monopolist Preferences and feasible sets A rent-seeking dictator Even a dictator faces constraints on what he can do The dictator chooses a tax to maximize his total rents Question 22.1 Choose the correct answer(s) 22.3 Political competition affects how the government will act How economists learn from facts Does electoral competition affect policy? Political competition as a constraint Exercise 22.3 Comparing duration curves for governments and monopolistic firms Exercise 22.4 Income and substitution effects 22.4 Why an erstwhile dictator might submit to political competition Exercise 22.5 Effects of cost-saving improvements to public services Question 22.2 Choose the correct answer(s) 22.5 Democracy as a political institution Great economists Kenneth Arrow 22.6 Political preferences and electoral competition: The median voter model The median voter and party platforms in an ideal democracy Exercise 22.6 Rock-paper-scissors politics 22.7 A more realistic model of electoral competition Accountability through political and economic competition: Summing up Great economists Albert O. Hirschman Exercise 22.7 Nash equilibria in the median voter model Question 22.3 Choose the correct answer(s) 22.8 The advance of democracy Social unrest and universal suffrage Spending priorities in a democracy Exercise 22.8 Past influences on current government spending patterns Exercise 22.9 Comparing government expenditures 22.9 Varieties of democracy Accountability and transfers of power Exercise 22.10 How democracy helps protect the governed 22.10 Democracy makes a difference How economists learn from facts Women’s suffrage and the reduction in child mortality in the US Exercise 22.11 Work times and inequality in less democratic democracies 22.11 A puzzle: The persistence of unfairness and market failures in democracies Government failure Economic infeasibility Administrative infeasibility Special interests 22.12 Economic infeasibility How policies work by shifting the Nash equilibrium Unintended consequences Economic feasibility: An example from Chile Exercise 22.12 Economies succeed when national policies align with individual impulses Question 22.4 Choose the correct answer(s) 22.13 Administrative infeasibility Limited information Limited capacities Administrative infeasibility: An application from Nigeria 22.14 Special interests Democratic accountability of elected officials ‘All animals are equal. But some are more equal than others.’ How economists (and political scientists) learn from facts Does money talk? Special interests: The story of Chile continued 22.15 Policy matters and economics works 22.16 Conclusion Concepts introduced in Unit 22 22.17 References