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Government Deficits and Trade Deficits 479

Getting the Economy Moving (Again) 479

New Challenges 480

The Three Key Goals of Macroeconomic Performance 481

A Look Ahead 482

REVIEW AND PRACTICE 483

CHAPTER 22 MEASURING OUTPUT AND

UNEMPLOYMENT 485

Measuring Output and Growth 485

Gross Domestic Product 486

Measuring GDP: The Value of Output 489

INTERNET CONNECTION: The Bureau of Economic

Analysis 489

CASE IN POINT: Is Software a Final Good or an

Intermediate Good? 491

Potential GDP 494

INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE: What Gets

Measured in the GDP? 495

Problems in Measuring Output 496

Measuring the Standard of Living 497

A Green GDP 497

Unemployment 498

Unemployment Statistics 499

Forms of Unemployment 500

Output Gaps and the Natural Rate of Unemployment 503

Flows and Stocks 505

REVIEW AND PRACTICE 506

CHAPTER 23 THE COST OF LIVING

AND INFLATION 509

The Costs of Inflation 509

Who Suffers from Inflation 510

The Economy 511

The Costs of Deflation 512

CASE IN POINT: Hyperinflation in Germany in the

1920s 512

Measuring Inflation 514

INTERNET CONNECTION: Improving Our Measure

of the CPI 516

CASE IN POINT: The Price Index Makes a Difference

516

CONTENTS

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