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Index

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Themes:

1.1 National Accounts

  • Circular flow of income
  • What is GDP and how is it measured?
  • Basic identities

1.2- Balance of Payments

Measurement of Economic Activity and Historical Evolution can be done by:

  • Inventory
  • Accounting

Approaches:

  • Keynes defines the main macroeconomic variables to be measured.
  • Kuznets proposes a system of national accounts.

Circular flow of income.

Circular flow of income

Circular Flow 1 Circular Flow 2 Circular Flow 3
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Production, intermediate inputs and value added.

Practice by yourself

Stock and flow variables

flow variable (is measured with reference to a period of time) and stock variable (particular point of time) variables.

Practice by yourself

Classics Books on Political Economy

Mathematical Properties of the Natural/Neperian Logarithm (ln)