====== Tables of Contents ====== --- //[[books:Macroeconomics Has No Clothes]]// {{ :books:macroeconomics_has_no_clothes-bookcover.jpg?nolink&400|}} **Foreword** A Fresh Eye On Economics, Guided By Innate Curiosity **Preface** [[:books:macroeconomics has no clothes:preface]] **Contents** ++++ Chapter 1. National Income Accounting | * 1.1 Why Measure Total Output by Value * 1.2 The Strict Definition of GDP and Its Measurement * 1.3 Be Wary of Pseudo-GDP * 1.4 Debunking the Broken Window Fallacy * 1.5 A Wrong But Enlightening Way to Explain Price Index * 1.6 GDP Deflator and Real GDP * 1.7 Better Rich Than Not: Defending GDP Pursuit ++++ ++++ Chapter 2. Money Theory | * 2.1 The Origin of Money * 2.2 The Functions of Money * 2.3 Free-market Money Triumphs Over Fiat Money * 2.4 Does Marginal Utility of Money Diminish * 2.5 Will Bitcoin Become Money * 2.6 Creation and Endogeneity of Money * 2.7 Is the Quantity Theory of Money Still Valid * 2.8 Cantillon Effect and Real Balance Effect ++++ ++++ Chapter 3. Economic Cycle: Keynesianism | * 3.1 Keynes’ Unemployment and Fluctuation * 3.2 Multiplier Effect: Keynes’ “Marvelous” Logic * 3.3 The Monetary Policy Keynes Overlooked * 3.4 Misapplication of the Three Psychological Laws * 3.5 A Wealthier Government Harms the Economy * 3.6 Can Perfect Counterfeit Money Stimulate Economy 100 * 3.7 Keynesian Economics is Flawed Even in Short-Run ++++ ++++ Chapter 4. Inflation | * 5.1 Inflation Solely Driven by Monetary Expansion * 5.2 Can Currency Appreciation Curb Inflation * 5.3 The Harms of Inflation * 5.4 Inflation Mismeasurement and Its Consequences * 5.5 How Does Individual Measure Inflation * 5.6 Taking Sides: Inflation or Deflation * 5.7 Interest Rates: Nominal, Real, and Time Value ++++ ++++ Chapter 5. Economic Cycle: Supply-Side Perspectives | * 4.1 Demand: Seeing Supply Beyond Money * 4.2 Supply-side Perspective: Multiplier Effect Revisit * 4.3 Supply-side Perspective: Why Economy Fluctuates * 4.4 Has the State Ironed Out Economic Cycles * 4.5 The Logic Behind Unemployment * 4.6 Govenment Intervention: Source of Economic Crises 133 * 4.7 No Model of Supply and Demand in Macroeconomics * 4.8 Microeconomics Shapes the Macro ++++ ++++ Chapter 6. Broader Monetary Considerations | * 6.1 Excessive Money Supply: From Rate Hike to Credit Crunch * 6.2 Policy U-Turn: From Easing to Rate Surge * 6.3 MMT: When Phenomenon Masquerades as Theory * 6.4 Is Fiat Currency a Central Bank Liability * 6.5 Why Fiat Currency Requires Monetary Policy * 6.6 Do Not Dance to the Tune of Macroeconomic policies * 6.7 Not a Market Failure: the Wenzhou Crisis ++++ ++++ Chapter 7. Growth and Distribution | * 7.1 Market and Growth * 7.2 Freedom and Growth * 7.3 More Wealth, Faster Growth * 7.4 Only Investment Drives Economic Growth * 7.5 Economic Growth is Easy * 7.6 Economic Growth Hinges on Luck Too * 7.7 The Logic of China’s Economic Growth * 7.8 Growing Income Gap: Repercussion of Market Distortions * 7.9 Beyond Equality: Measuring Fairness Through Consumption ++++ ++++ Chapter 8. Open Economy | * 8.1 Comparative Advantage * 8.2 What Determines Exchange Rates * 8.3 What Determines the Trade Balance * 8.4 The Optimal Tariff is Zero * 8.5 Why Trade Protectionism Persists * 8.6 Terms of Trade Is a Useless Term * 8.7 Sound Economics Rejects the Impossible Trinity ++++ ++++ Chapter 9. Exchange Rates: A Unique Price | * 9.1 Do Not Intervene in Prices * 9.2 Should We Intervene in Exchange Rates * 9.3 The Core Issue of Exchange Rates * 9.4 Exchange Rate Regimes and the Spillover * 9.5 Exchange Rate, Terms of Trade and Gains from Trade * 9.6 Fixed Exchange Rate Is a Monetary Discipline * 9.7 Addressing Economies Diverging from Classical Assumptions ++++ **Bibliography** **List of Figures** **List of Tables**