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AP®︎ Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics is about whole economies. What is GDP? Why does the economy boom and bust? How is the government involved? We hit the traditional topics from a college-level macroeconomics course.
Basic economics concepts: AP®︎ Macroeconomics
Economic indicators and the business cycle: AP®︎ Macroeconomics
National income and price determination: AP®︎ Macroeconomics
Financial sector: AP®︎ Macroeconomics
Long-run consequences of stabilization policies: AP®︎ Macroeconomics
Open economy: international trade and finance: AP®︎ Macroeconomics
Prepare for the 2020 AP Macro Exam: AP®︎ Macroeconomics
Every graph used in AP Macroeconomics: AP®︎ Macroeconomics
AP®︎ Macroeconomics Standards mappings: AP®︎ Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics is about whole economies. What is GDP? Why does the economy boom and bust? How is the government involved? We hit the traditional topics from a college-level macroeconomics course.
Basic economics concepts: Macroeconomics
Economic indicators and the business cycle: Macroeconomics
National income and price determination: Macroeconomics
Financial sector: Macroeconomics
Long-run consequences of stabilization policies: Macroeconomics
Open economy: international trade and finance: Macroeconomics
Keynesian approaches and IS-LM: Macroeconomics
Contemporary macroeconomic issues: Macroeconomics

AP®︎ Microeconomics

Microeconomics is all about how individual actors make decisions. Learn how supply and demand determine prices, how companies think about competition, and more! We hit the traditional topics from a college-level microeconomics course.
Basic Economic Concepts: AP®︎ Microeconomics
Supply and Demand: AP®︎ Microeconomics
Production, cost, and the perfect competition model: AP®︎ Microeconomics
Imperfect competition: AP®︎ Microeconomics
Factor markets: AP®︎ Microeconomics
Market failure and the role of government: AP®︎ Microeconomics
AP®︎ Microeconomics Standards mappings: AP®︎ Microeconomics

Microeconomics

Microeconomics is all about how individual actors make decisions. Learn how supply and demand determine prices, how companies think about competition, and more! We hit the traditional topics from a college-level microeconomics course.
Basic economic concepts: Microeconomics
Supply, demand, and market equilibrium: Microeconomics
Elasticity: Microeconomics
Consumer and producer surplus, market interventions, and international trade: Microeconomics
Consumer theory: Microeconomics
Production decisions and economic profit: Microeconomics
Forms of competition: Microeconomics
Factor markets: Microeconomics
Market failure and the role of government: Microeconomics

Finance and capital markets

Videos on finance and macroeconomics
Interest and debt: Finance and capital markets
Housing: Finance and capital markets
Inflation: Finance and capital markets
Taxes: Finance and capital markets
Accounting and financial statements: Finance and capital markets
Stocks and bonds: Finance and capital markets
Investment vehicles, insurance, and retirement: Finance and capital markets
Money, banking and central banks: Finance and capital markets
Options, swaps, futures, MBSs, CDOs, and other derivatives: Finance and capital markets
Current economics: Finance and capital markets

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Introduction to economics
Scarcity
Four factors of production
Normative and positive statements
Economic models

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Scarcity

Resources are scarce, so figuring out how to allocate resources is the fundamental problem that the field of economics works to solve. In this lesson, we define economics and introduce the tools and thought processes that economists use to explain the world around us.
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