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N. GREGORY MANKIW
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In this chapter, you will learn…
Labor
Households Firms
Goods
Expenditure ($)
definition:
A firm’s value added is
the value of its output
minus
the value of the intermediate goods
the firm used to produce that output.
$ billions % of GDP
$ billions % of GDP
stock flow
a person’s
a person’s wealth
annual saving
Stock or flow?
the balance on your credit card statement
how much you study economics outside of
class
the size of your compact disc collection
the inflation rate
the unemployment rate
$ billions % of GDP
0 0%
billions of dollars
percent of GDP
-200 -2%
-400 -4%
-600 -6%
-800 -8%
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
NX ($ billions) NX (% of GDP)
An important identity
Y = C + I + G + NX
aggregate
value of expenditure
total output
Suppose a firm
produces $10 million worth of final goods
but only sells $9 million worth.
In your country,
which would you want
to be bigger, GDP, or GNP?
Why?
12,000
10,000
(billions)
8,000
6,000
Real GDP
(in 2000 dollars)
4,000
Nominal GDP
2,000
0
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Nominal GDP
GDP deflator = 100
Real GDP
GDP Inflation
Nom. GDP Real GDP
deflator rate
Cost of Inflation
basket CPI rate
2002 $350 100.0 n.a.
2003 370 105.7 5.7%
2004 400 114.3 8.1%
2005 410 117.1 2.5%
Medical care
Recreation
Education 15.1%
Communication
12%
Percentage change
9%
6%
3%
0%
-3%
1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005
6%
4%
2%
0%
-2%
-4%
1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005