ECN 204 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Purchasing Power Parity, Business Cycle, Longrun

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6. 1 assessing the health of the economy: performance and policy. Macroeconomics is primarily concerned with long-run economic growth and short-run fluctuations in output and employment; the business cycle. Macroeconomist focus on real gdp, unemployment and inflation. Measures the value of final goods and services produced within the borders of a country during a specific time period, typically a year. Must first calculate nominal gdp, which totals the dollar value of all goods and services produced within the borders of a company using the country"s current prices during the year they were produced. We can"t tell the change in output from year to year with nominal gdp: for example, a commercial blacksmith produces 10 staircases for both years. The price for the staircases changed from last year to. Without knowing the price increase, we would assume that the output also increased.

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