2. Choice and Utility Functions a. Choice in Consumer Demand Theory and Walrasian Demand b. Properties of demand from continuity and properties from WARP . Representing Preferences with a Utility Function d. Demand as Derived from Utility Maximization e. Application: Fertility

11. Competition and Monopoly, some preliminary discussions a. Monopoly Pricing b. Cournot and Bertrand Oligopoly C. Two Part Pricing d. Price Discrimination e. Regulation

10. More on Production a. Derived Demand-Marshall's Laws b. Long Run/Short Run, LeChatelier, Dynamics C. Aggregating Supply d. Theory of the Firm, the Holdup Problem e. Agency Issues f. Application: The Coase Theorem

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt Herbert hoover When a government spends more than it collects in taxes, it borrows from the private sector to finance the budget deficit. The accumulation of past borrowin is the government debt. Debate about the appropriate amount of government debt in the United States is as old as the country itself. Alexander Hamilton be- lieved thata national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing, whereas James Madison argued that \a public debt is a public curse \Indeed, the location of the nations capital was chosen as part of a deal in which the federal

The Federal Reserve 's job is to take away the punch bowl just as the party William McChesney martin tiously turning the steering wheel to adjust to the unexpected irregule ties of the route, but some means of keeping the monetary passenger who is in the back seat as ballast from occasionally leaning over and giving the steering wheel a jerk that threatens to send the car off the road Milton friedman

There is ahvays a temporary tradeoff befween inflation and unemploy from inflation per se, but from unanticipated inflation, which generally means, from a rising rate of inflation Milton friedman Most economists analyze short-run fluctuations in aggregate income and the price level using the model of aggregate demand and aggregate supply. In the IS-LM modek hapters, we examined aggregate demand in some detail. The IS-LM model-together with its open-economy cousin the Mundell-Fleming model-shows how changes in monetary and fiscal policy and shocks to the money and goods markets shift the aggregate demand curve. In this chapter

When conducting monetary and fiscal policy, policymakers often look be- yond their own country's borders Even if domestic prosperity is their sole ob jective, it is necessary for them to consider the rest of the world. The international flow of goods and services and the international flow of capital can affect an economy in profound ways. Policymakers ignore these effects at In this chapter we extend our analysis of aggregate demand to include inter- national trade and finance. The model developed in this chapter, called the Mundell-Fleming model, is an open-economy version of the IS-LM model. Both models stress the interaction between the goods market and the money market. Both models assume that the price level is fixed and then show what

Aggregate Demand ll Science is a parasite: the greater the patient population the better the ad ance in physiology and pathology; and out of pathology arises therapy The year 1932 was the trough of the great depression, and from its rotten soil was belatedly begot a new subject that today we call macroeconomics In Chapter 10 we assembled the pieces of the IS-LM model. We saw that the IS curve represents the equilibrium in the market for goods and services, that the LM curve represents the equilibrium in the market for real money balances, and that the IS and LM curves together

Introduction to Economic Fluctuations The modern world regards business cycles much as the ancient Egyptians regarded the overflowing of the Nile. The phenomenon recurs at intervals, it is of great importance to everyone, and natural causes of it are not in sight -John Bates Clark, 1898 Economic fluctuations present a recurring problem for economists and policy-

Economic growth‖ Is there some action a government of India could take that would lead the Indian economy to grow like Indonesia's or Egypt's? If so, what, exactly? If not, what is it about the \nature of India that makes it so? The conse- quences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply stag- gering: Once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about Robert E. Lucas, Jr