I guess I have to come out to reply to those who concern with the nature rate of unemployment First, What is the natural rate of unemployment? It is assumed to be the unemployment rate at the steady state or equilibrium. Note that equilibrium here is not referred to the common
I want to thank Edward Nell, David Colander, John Eatwell and Thomas Palley for their comments and suggestions on the early draft of paper Dept of Economics, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, 65 Fifth Ave
Course Description Macroeconomics is the most disputed, confused yet excited field in economics. This course introduces you how economists think about those macroeconomic problems such as inflation, unemployment and recession, and how macroeco could be used to resolve these problems. We will find that economists may give you many different answers. Yet behind their different answers is the difference in the framework of macroeconomic analysis. The course will thus introduce you two major
Chapter 7: The Analysis of Price Determination Gang Gong Copyright Notes: This electronic file is only used as a lecture notes for the student in this class. It is not allowed to be used for presentation anywhere else without the permission from the author
Introduction The objective of this chapter is to put the previously discussed two models --the models of product market and money market --together and discuss how output and interest rate is determined The model presented in this chapter is often called the IS-LM model (IS: the product market model; LM the money market model)
Introduction The aim of this chapter is to study how output is determined in Keynesian framework. The analysis in this chapter is often named multiplier analysis
What is economics? Normative Definition Economics is the science that studies how to efficiently allocate economic resources Positive definition economics is the science that studies how an economy operates or how economic variables are
Question 1 Suppose in an open economy the consumption function take the form C=100+0.8 Tax is the proportion of income with the tax rate to be given by 0. 2. Meanwhile import depends on the domestic income with the function given by
1. Given the government expenditure, whether the government budget is in surp lus or deficit dep ends on the tax revenue which itself depends on rate of tax. Please derive the tax rate at which the government budget is in balance. Draw the graph that reflects the relation between tax rate and deficit (or surplus)
