Unit 2: Introduction to Macroeconomics

Lesson 12a: The AD/AS Model - The Graphs and the AD Determinants

Something Interesting - Why are we studying this?

 

Read the first 5 paragraphs and and paragraph 10 in the link below where Joseph Stiglitz explains how the lack of Aggregate Demand (AD) is currently causing slow or no economic growth around the world.

Why the Great Malaise of the World Economy Continues in 2016,
Joseph E. Stiglitz

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-e-stiglitz/world-economy-2016_b_8908560.html

From Wikipedia: "Joseph Eugene Stiglitz . . . is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences . . . . He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and is a former member and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, [under president Clinton]. . . . Based on academic citations, Stiglitz is the 4th most influential economist in the world today, and in 2011 he was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world."

 

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