mankiw n g ten principles of economics 2004en pdf

... Bill Gates and Andy Grove and Jack Welch [heads of Mi- crosoft, Intel, and General Electric] work- ing long, long after they don’t need to work. You’re going to want the most able people working ... inequality in living standards. To gauge the inequality of living standards in our society, the distribution of lifetime in- comes is more relevant than the distribution of annual incomes. Unfortunately, data ... largely on its permanent in- come, which is its normal, or average, income. To gauge inequality of living standards, the distribution of permanent income is more relevant than the distribution of...

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... responds to the higher interest rate by con- suming less when young. In panel (b), Sam responds by consuming more when young. Sam’s saving, of course, is his income when young minus the amount ... price of these two goods. Figure 21-15 shows Sam’s budget constraint. If he saves nothing, he consumes $100,000 when young and nothing when old. If he saves everything, he consumes nothing when young ... stop working as a single person who inherits less than $25,000. This finding would not have surprised the nineteenth-century industrialist Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie warned that “the parent who leaves his...

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... hous- ing. (By convention, expenditure on new housing is the one form of household spending categorized as investment rather than consumption.) Government pur- chases include spending on goods and services ... equipment, inventories, and structures, including household purchases of new housing government purchases spending on goods and services by local, state, and federal governments net exports spending ... distress: rising unemployment, falling profits, increased bankruptcies, and so on. Much of macroeconomics is aimed at explaining the long-run growth and short-run fluctuations in real GDP. As we...

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... of purchases of new housing. Investment includes spending on new equipment and structures, including households’ purchases of new housing. Government purchases include spending on goods and services ... among four components of expenditure: consumption, investment, government purchases, and net exports. Consumption includes spending on goods and services by households, with the exception of purchases ... GDP? b. Now imagine a measure of well-being that includes time spent working in the home and taking leisure. How would the change in this measure of well- being compare to the change in GDP? c. Can...

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... term marginal changes to describe small incre- mental adjustments to an existing plan of action. Keep in mind that “margin” means “edge,” so marginal changes are adjustments around the edges of what ... profits by opportunity cost whatever must be given up to obtain some item marginal changes small incremental adjustments to a plan of action CHAPTER 1 TEN PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS 7 thinking ... listening to lectures, reading textbooks, and writing papers, you cannot spend that time working at a job. For most students, the wages given up to attend school are the largest single cost of...

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... persistent inflation, the culprit turns out to be the same—growth in the quantity of money. When a gov- ernment creates large quantities of the nation’s money, the value of the money falls. In Germany ... for understand- ing many developments in the economy. In particular, policymakers can exploit this tradeoff using various policy instruments. By changing the amount that the government spends, ... debate in the United States centered on the government’s budget deficit—the excess of government spending over gov- ernment revenue. As we will see, concern over the budget deficit was based largely...

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... helping the most needy members of society. Nonetheless, many city governments choose to ignore the advice of economists and place ceilings on the rents that landlords may charge their tenants. The ... markets macroeconomics the study of economy-wide phenomena, including inflation, unemployment, and economic growth CHAPTER 2 THINKING LIKE AN ECONOMIST 23 are not actual human bodies, and no one would mistake the ... amount of disagreement. In many cases, economists do offer a united view. Table 2-2 contains ten propositions about economic policy. In a survey of economists in business, government, and academia,...

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... EIGHT THE DATA OF MACROECONOMICS 4. Beginning in 1994, environmental regulations have required that gasoline contain a new additive to reduce air pollution. This requirement raised the cost of gasoline. ... subtracting inflation—the percentage change in the consumer price index—from this nominal interest rate. You can see that real and nominal interest rates do not always move together. For example, in ... “is understating the true rate of inflation for the elderly,” said Dean Baker, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, an indepen- dent research organization in Washing- ton, and the disparity...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 00:15

... how government policies influence the amount of saving and investment that takes place. At this point it is important to note that encouraging saving and investment is one way that a gov- ernment ... than it was a century ago, and many people are enjoying a much higher standard of living. A perennial debate con- cerns whether this growth in population and living standards can continue in the ... real GDP is a good gauge of economic prosperity, and the growth of real GDP is a good gauge of economic progress. Here we focus on the long-run determinants of the level and growth of real GDP....

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 00:15

... by increasing awareness of birth control techniques. The final way in which a country can influence population growth is to apply one of the Ten Principles of Economics: People respond to incentives. ... national defense, it also has a role in encouraging the research and development of new technologies. The U.S. government has long played a role in the creation and dissemination of technological ... the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health and with tax breaks for firms engaging in research and development. Yet another way in which government policy encourages...

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... interdependence. One of the Ten Principles of Economics highlighted in Chapter 1 is that trade can make everyone better off. This principle explains why people trade with their neighbors and why nations ... television made in Japan. You get dressed in clothes made of cotton grown in Georgia and sewn in factories in Thailand. You drive to class in a car made of parts manufac- tured in more than a dozen countries ... one another. Those people who provide you with goods and services are not acting out of generosity or concern for your welfare. Nor is some government agency directing them to make what you INTERDEPENDENCE...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 11:15

... absolute advantage and comparative advantage differ. 2. Give an example in which one person has an absolute advantage in doing something but another person has a comparative advantage. 3. Is absolute ... grain? Put Problems and Applications 60 PART ONE INTRODUCTION this information in a table analogous to Table 3-3. d. Which country has an absolute advantage in producing cars? In producing ... opportunity cost of producing that good. Because the opportunity cost of a car is 2 tons of food in the United States but only 1 ton of food in Japan, Japan has a comparative advantage in producing cars....

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 11:15

... a good when its price varies, holding constant all other determinants of quantity demanded. When one of these other determinants changes, the demand curve shifts. Table 4-3 T HE D ETERMINANTS OF Q UANTITY D EMANDED . ... amount of smoking does not represent a shift in the de- mand curve. Instead, it represents a movement along the same demand curve to a point with a higher price and lower quantity, as in panel ... (b) of Figure 4-4. How much does the amount of smoking respond to changes in the price of cigarettes? Economists have attempted to answer this question by studying what happens when the tax on...

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