Lecture 4
Macroeconomics
Opening
Prayer
Quiz
1.What is the magic machine we all own?
 

2.Who has the comparative advantage
?

3. How do you clear a shortage or surplus?
Trade.
 

The person with the lower opportunity cos
t

Let price be free to increase or decrease
Economics
The study of how
human beings solve
each another’s
problems
William Nordhaus
Nobel Prize


2018
58 Hours
41.5 Hours
1750 B.C.
3 Hours
1800
45 Minutes
1883
49 Seconds
1920
.43 Seconds
1992
.16 Seconds
2010
2000 BC 1000 BC 0 1000 AD 2000 AD
Light Inde
x

2000BC =1
0
250,000
500,000
750,000
1,000,000
1,250,000
1,500,000
Year Technology Labor Price
 

(1,000 lumen hours)
Open Fire 58 hours
1750
 

B.C.
Oil Lamp 41.5 hours
1830 Tallow Candle 3 hours
1883 Carbon Filament Lamp 45 minutes
1920 Tungsten Filament Lamp 49 seconds
1992 Compact Fluorescent .43 seconds
2010 Light-Emitting Diode .16 seconds
1820 2020
x 67,500
Be a
Ligh
t

by
being
like the
Savior
GD
P

Gross Domestic Product
The market value of all
final goods and services
produced in a country in
a given time
GDP
How much stuff a
country makes
GDP per
Capita
GDP per Perso
n

Average GDP
MarketValue
What something
would sell for
MarketValue
One Apple
 

plu
s

One Orang
e

= Three Dollars
All
Everything except...
Stuff you don’t sell
Final
Intermediat
e

Final
Final
Intermediate
Good
s

an
d

Services
Goods
Services
Produced
New Stuf
f

Does not include the
sale of used goods
Within a
Country
In a given period
of time
Year Y/
Y

Quarter Q/
Q

Annualized: Q x 4
Percentag
e

Change
new number - old numbe
r

old number
ThisYear - LastYea
r

LastYear
ThisYear = 7
5

LastYear = 6
0

Percentage Change?
75 - 6
0

60
15
60
.25 or 25%
How do you
calculate
 

GDP?
GDP =
C = Consumptio
n

I = Investmen
t

G = Governmen
t

X = Export
s

M = Import
s
GDP =
C + I + G + (X - M)
Consumption
Spending by
households on
goods and services,
except new housing
Investment
Spending on capital
equipment, inventories, and
structures, including new
housing
Government
Spending on goods
and services from
local, state, and
federal governments.
Net Exports
Exports minus
imports
Net Exports
Foreigners buying
exports minus
domestic residents
buying foreign goods
What is GDP?
C = 10
5

I = 4
0

G = 2
5

X = 3
0

M = 2
0
GDP
= C + I + G + (X - M
)

= 105 + 40 + 25 +(30-20
)

= 105 + 40 + 25 +1
0

= 18
0
GDP $85 trillion
Population 7.8 billion
GDP Per Capita $10,897
GDP Per Day $30
GDP $21 trillion
Population 330 million
GDP Per Capita $63,636
United States
Per Day $174
GDP $14.7 trillion
Population 1.4 billion
GDP Per Capita $10,500
Per Day $29
China
activated their entrepreneurs
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