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The Challenge of Sustainable Development

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This chapter serves as a conclusion to the course Macroeconomics for a Sustainable Planet. In this final video, Professor Sachs talks about the environmental challenges…

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Growth and Inequality

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This chapter focuses on growth and inequality, and more specifically, the Kuznets Curve, in order to show the relationship between income per capita and inequality.…

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What is Globalization?

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This chapter focuses on globalization and the interconnection of the evolving world economy. Globalization is a multi-dimensional process of goods and services,…

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Solow's Growth Convergence Model

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In this chapter, Professor Larraín explains Solow's Growth Behavioral Model. He explains terms such as capital stock, investment, marginal productivity of…

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Monetary Policy Under Fixed and Floating Exchange…

Monetary Policy Under Fixed and Floating Exchange Rates

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This chapter discusses monetary policy, and focuses on the difference between fixed and floating exchange rates. It begins by explaining the role that a central bank…

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Inflation, Unemployment, and the Phillips Curve

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This chapter discusses inflation and unemployment, as well as problems of stabilization. There is a trade-off between inflation and unemployment. Professor…

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Three Big Problems with Aggregate Demand…

Three Big Problems with Aggregate Demand Management

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This chapter mentions three problems with stimulus policies. First, it may not be so easy to raise aggregate demand using the specific policy tools that government has,…

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Aggregate Demand with Fixed Exchange Rate

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This chapter begins by explaining the impact of aggregate demand in an open economy, via fixed and flexible exchange rates. In a fixed or pegged exchange rate, the…

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Aggregate Demand with Flexible Exchange Rate

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In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses international trade and how it is affected by the exchange rate, which is in turn affected by financial flows and the…

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Consumption, Saving, and the Intertemporal Budget…

Consumption, Saving, and the Intertemporal Budget Constraint

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This chapter focuses on saving and investment, which are the main drivers of capital accumulation. By building up the stock of capital, the economy becomes more…

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Making Universal Social Protection a Reality -…

Making Universal Social Protection a Reality - Trailer

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Enroll in Making Universal Social Protection a Reality. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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GDP and Well-Being

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In this chapter, Professor Sachs talks about how gross domestic product (GDP) per person, as a rough measure of living standards and well-being, is increasingly being…

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Introduction to Macroeconomics

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In this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs introduces the course on macroeconomics for a sustainable planet, as well as his co-professor, Felipe Larraín,…

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PPP and Interest Rate Arbitrage

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This chapter focuses on the purchasing power parity (PPP) and the interest rate arbitrage. Professor Larraín begins by explaining the law of one price, which…

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Regional and City-level SDG Indices

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In this video, SDG Index Manager Guillaume Lafortune presents the case for local SDG measurement, and discusses the methodologies used to create regional and city-level…

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Bubbles and Crashes

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This chapter explains the financial bubble that occurs when a financial asset deviates from its fundamental value. In a financial bubble, there is a sudden price surge…

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