Unemployment and inflation

We finished up unemployment and covered sticky wages, changes to the unemployment rate, types of unemployment, unemployment and the Great Recession, government policies and unemployment, and unemployment insurance. We then started on inflation, discussing what inflation is, why we care, and what a price index is.

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This course covers macroeconomics. Course 1A and 1B may be taken in either order. Analysis of the economy as a whole; determinants of the level of income, employment and prices; money and banking, economic fluctuations, international trade, economic development; the role of public policy.