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Alternative Measures of Inflation 517

INTERNET CONNECTION: The Inflation Calculator

517

e-INSIGHT: Measuring the Price and Quantity of

Software 518

The American Experience with Inflation 519

REVIEW AND PRACTICE 521

PART 6

FULL-EMPLOYMENT

MACROECONOMICS 523

CHAPTER 24 THE FULL-EMPLOYMENT MODEL 525

Macroeconomic Equilibrium 526

The Labor Market 527

Shifts in the Demand and Supply of Labor 529

CASE IN POINT: Mass Migration in the Nineteenth

Century 531

e-INSIGHT: Labor Markets and the Internet 532

The Product Market 532

Potential GDP 533

Demand and Equilibrium Output 534

The Capital Market 536

Household Saving 536

Investment 537

Equilibrium in the Capital Market 538

The General Equilibrium Model 540

Using the General Equilibrium Model 541

REVIEW AND PRACTICE 543

CHAPTER 25 GOVERNMENT FINANCE AT FULL

EMPLOYMENT 547

The Composition of Spending and Taxes 548

Extending the Basic Full-Employment Model 548

Adding the Government 549

The Government and the Capital Market 549

Leakages and Injections 554

INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE: Deficits in Other

Countries 555

THINKING LIKE AN ECONOMIST: Distribution,

Deficits and Intergenerational Transfers 556

xxiv ∂ CONTENTS

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