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**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
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++++ 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
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++++ 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
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++++ 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
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++++ 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
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++++ 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
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++++ 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
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++++ 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
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++++ 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
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**Bibliography**
**List of Figures**
**List of Tables**