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Because output is the central pillar, we begin with that topic in chapter 1 and follow with money and expectations in chapters 2 and 3, respectively. Together, chapters 1 through 3 comprise part I of the book, which covers the funda- mentals of macroeconomics in as compact a form as possible. For readers interested in digging a bit deeper, chapters 4 through 7 part II provide more detailed coverage in several key areas. These chapters are not meant to be comprehensive, but rather to address a handful of macro topics that typically pro- voke the most questions in the classroom.

Experience suggests that a historical approach proves particularly effective in conveying both the logic and limits of monetary policy and central banking. Chapters 5 and 6 cover the basics of macroeconomic accounting. Finally, chapter 7 surveys the topic of exchange rates, focusing on factors that are thought to drive currencies to appreciate or depreciate.

Although the path of an exchange rate, like the trajectory of a stock, is notori- ously difficult to predict, there are certainly a number of impor- tant economic relationships one should take into account when—for either personal or business reasons—a prediction is required.

Unlike a standard textbook, this volume is designed to be read in just a few sittings. Although readers may wish to return to particular sections from time to time to brush up on exchange rates or fiscal policy, for example , they are likely to get the most out of the book if they first read it or at least read part I in its entirety—the goal being to develop a broad understanding of the subject, its key pieces, and how they fit together.

The total amount of output goods and services that a country produces constitutes its ultimate budget constraint. A country can use more output than it produces only if it borrows the dif- ference from foreigners. Large volumes of output—not large quantities of money—are what make nations prosperous. A national government could print and distribute all the money it wanted, turning all of its residents into millionaires. But col- lectively they would be no better off than before unless national output increased as well.

And even with all that money, they would find themselves worse off if national output declined. In order to understand what GDP is, it is first necessary to figure out how it is measured. The central challenge in measuring national output GDP is to avoid counting the same output more than once. It might seem obvious that total output should simply equal the value of all the goods and services produced in an economy—every pound of steel, every tractor, every bushel of grain, every loaf of bread, every meal sold at a restaurant, every piece of paper, every architectural blueprint, every building constructed, and so forth.

A simple example illustrates this problem. A good way to avoid the over-counting problem is to focus on the value added—that is, the new output created—at each stage of production.

More pre- cisely, value added or output created equals the sales price of a good or service minus the cost of all nonlabor inputs used to produce it. We can easily apply this method to the A-B-C example just given. Another—and far simpler—way to avoid the over-counting problem is to focus exclusively on final sales, which implicitly account for the output created in all prior stages of production.

Note that this was precisely the same answer we came to using the value-added approach in the previ- ous paragraph. See figure Although both methods are correct, the second method— known as the expenditure method—has emerged as the stan- dard approach for calculating GDP in most countries.

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If American consumers bought televi- sions from Asia, we would have to be careful not to count those consumer expenditures in American GDP, since the output being purchased was foreign, not domestic. For this reason, imports are subtracted from total expenditures and thus appropriately excluded from GDP. This tells us that national output equals total expenditure on final goods and services, excluding imports.

As we have seen, national output also equals the sum of value added i. A third way to measure total output is to focus on income though again, in practice, the expenditure method is used more often in calculating GDP. Income is the amount paid to factors of production, labor and capital, for their services—typically in the form of wages, salaries, interest, dividends, rent, and royal- ties.

Since income is just payment for the production of output, it makes sense that total income should ultimately equal total output. After all, all of the proceeds of production ultimately have to end up somewhere, including in your pocket and mine. For example, the United States may wish to exchange commercial aircraft such as Boeing s 11 Ch That is, exports would exactly equal imports in both the United States and Japan.

One puzzle is why any country would want to run a trade surplus, which involves giving more of its output away to for- eigners in the form of exports than it receives in return in the form of imports. Why would any country wish to give away more than it received? The answer, in a nutshell, is that countries running trade surpluses today expect to get back additional out- put from their trading partners in the future.

When a country exports more than it imports, it inevitably lends an equivalent amount of funds abroad, which allows the foreign- ers to purchase its surplus production. Conversely, when a country imports more than it exports, it must borrow from for- eigners to finance the difference. By borrowing, it is promising to pay back the difference—typically with interest—at some point in the future.

If, for instance, the United States were to import automobiles from Japan without exporting anything in return, it could pay for these automobiles only by borrowing from Japan. This bor- rowing could take many different forms: Americans could bor- row directly from Japanese banks or they could give the Japanese stocks or bonds or other securities. Whatever form the borrow- ing took, the Japanese would end up with assets, such as stocks or bonds, promising a claim on future US output.

Eventually, when the Japanese decided to sell their American stocks and bonds and use the proceeds to buy American airplanes, movies, and software, the trade balances of the two countries would flip.

The Japanese, meanwhile, would now run a trade deficit, permitting their consumption to exceed their production with the difference coming from the United States. See table Current transactions, such as exports and imports of goods and services, are recorded in the current account. Financial transac- tions, including sales of stocks and bonds to foreigners, are recorded in the financial account which was formerly called the capital account.

Deficits on the current account are necessarily accompanied by capital inflows borrowing on the financial account, whereas surpluses on the current account are accompa- nied by capital outflows lending on the financial account.

As a result, the current account and the financial account are perfect opposites, with a deficit in one necessarily accompanied by a surplus of the same amount in the other. For pointers on read- ing a BOP statement, see chapter 6. Current account deficits should not necessarily be interpreted in a negative light, since they can indicate either weakness or strength, depending on the context.

In some cases, current account deficits imply that a country is living beyond its means, increasing its consumption to an unsustainable level. But current account deficits can also arise when a country is borrowing from abroad in order to raise its level of domestic investment and thus increase its future output.

The question for deficit coun- tries, therefore, is whether they are using the additional output well, whereas for surplus countries it is whether they can expect a good return in the future on the output they are giving to oth- ers today. For this to be possible, Country X must import more than it exports, as is indeed the case. As shown in the left panel, imports of goods and services exceed exports of goods and services by 50, which is exactly the amount by which domestic expenditure exceeds domestic output.

Clearly the difference between domestic expenditure and domestic output is being imported from abroad. The current account is in deficit, reflecting the fact that Country X buys more from foreigners than it sells to foreigners. Although the current account on the BOP does not always equal the difference between exports and imports as recorded in the GDP accounts, it is often close. The surplus on the financial account represents a net capital inflow from abroad, which is necessary to finance the deficit on the current account.

The capital inflows that make up the financial account take a variety of forms, including foreign direct investment FDI , portfolio flows, and so on. For a more detailed treatment of GDP accounting and balance of payments accounting, see chapters 5 and 6. Although balance of payments accounting may be unfamil- iar to you, it is not really as difficult as it may seem.

In fact, the fundamental issues should become a good deal clearer through a simple analogy to your own personal budget. The amount of output that you produce—that is, your individual output—is reflected in your personal income.

If you are employed, you are paid wages or a salary for your contribution to output. If you own capital such as bank accounts, bonds, or stocks , you are paid interest or dividends for its contribution to out- put.

If you wish to spend more than you produce i. This excess spending may be used to finance increased consumption such as a two-week holiday in Europe or a new personal investment such as additional education or an entre- preneurial venture that promises to increase your earning power in the future. Either way, for you to borrow, someone else has to lend, which in turn means that that person is pro- ducing more than he or she is spending and saving the differ- ence so it can be lent to you.

Someday you will have to repay the loan, presumably with interest. When you do that, you will have to consume less than you produce i. For a country, it is basically the same thing. If a nation is running a deficit on its current account by importing more than it exports, for example , then it is using more output than it is producing, and it is borrowing the difference from for- eigners, which registers as a surplus—a capital inflow—on the financial account of its BOP statement. The key point is that for a country, as for a person, the long-term constraint on con- sumption and investment is the amount of output that can be produced.

A country, like a person, can use more output than it produces in the short run by financing the difference through borrowing but not over the long run. Intent on per- suading British lawmakers to abandon their protectionist trade policies, Ricardo set out to prove the extraordinary power of trade to increase total world output and thus consumption and living standards.

On the basis of a simple model with just two countries and two goods, he showed that every country—even one enjoy- ing an absolute productivity advantage in both goods—would benefit from specializing in what it was relatively best at produc- ing and then engaging in trade for everything else. In his now-famous example, Ricardo imagined that Portugal was more productive than England in making both wine and cloth.

Specifically, he assumed the Portuguese could produce, over a year, a particular quantity of wine say, 8, gallons with just 80 men, as compared with men in England; and, simi- larly, that the Portuguese could produce a particular quantity of cloth say, 9, yards with just 90 men, as compared with men in England. As a result, Portugal enjoyed a comparative advantage in wine, and, conversely, England enjoyed a compara- tive advantage in cloth.

Ricardo concluded that if each country followed its comparative advantage—with Portugal producing only wine and England only cloth—and the two then engaged in trade with one another, each would be able to consume more wine and more cloth than if it had tried to produce both goods on its own. To make this more concrete, assume that each country had 1, workers, and that each allocated to wine and to cloth.

This would mean that Portugal produced 70, gal- lons of wine and 50, yards of cloth, whereas England pro- duced 46, gallons of wine and 45, yards of cloth. However, if each country devoted all 1, workers to its com- parative advantage, Portugal would produce , gallons of wine and England , yards of cloth.

If they now traded, say, 48, gallons of wine for 55, yards of cloth, Portugal would end up with 72, gallons of wine and 55, yards of cloth, and England with 48, gallons of wine and 53, yards of cloth.

Both countries, in other words, would end up with more of both goods as a result of special- izing and trading. In fact, to have produced these quantities on their own would have required 1, work- ers in Portugal and 1, workers in England. It is as if, as a result of specializing and trading according to the principle of comparative advantage, both countries got the output of many extra workers for free.

Although we can certainly specify conditions under 17 Ch Many macroeconomists regard the question of what makes national output go up and down as the most important question of all. Although there is remarkably little agreement on the answer, there are at least a few things on which most economists do agree.

Yet, for all its oversimplification, the theory of comparative advantage provides a most important glimpse of truth. Political economy has found few more pregnant principles. A nation that neglects comparative advantage may pay a heavy price in terms of living standards and growth.

Take an investment banker, for example. Even if that investment banker were better at painting houses than any professional painter in town, she would still probably be wise from an economic stand- point to focus on investment banking and to pay others to paint her house for her, rather than to paint it herself.

This is because her comparative advantage is presumably in investment banking, not house painting. Taking time away from her high-paying invest- ment banking job in order to paint her house would likely prove quite costly, ultimately reducing the amount of money she could earn and, in turn, the amount of output she could consume.

In order to maximize output, in other words, it makes sense for each of us to specialize in our comparative advantage and to trade for the rest. Sources of Growth Beginning with the question of what makes output rise over time, economists often point to three basic sources of economic growth: increases in labor, increases in capital, and increases in the efficiency with which these two factors are used.

The amount of labor can rise if existing workers work longer hours 19 Ch Capital stock rises when businesses enhance their productive capacity by adding more plant and equipment through investment.

Efficiency increases when producers are able to get more output from the same amount of labor and capital—as a result of organizational innovation, for example. As an illustration of these different sources of growth, consider a simple textile factory with 10 employees and 10 sewing machines. If each employee, making whole shirts on a sewing machine, were able to produce 10 shirts per day, then the total output of the factory would be shirts per day.

Now imagine that the factory owner doubled both the number of workers and the number of sewing machines. Output would undoubtedly rise—perhaps to shirts per day. Thus, one strategy for increas- ing output is to increase labor, capital, or a combination of the two. A very different strategy, however, would aim for an increase in efficiency, rather than labor and capital inputs. The factory owner, for example, might try to enhance efficiency by reorganiz- ing the shop floor, setting up something resembling an assembly line.

Under the new arrangement, instead of each worker making whole shirts, some workers would make collars, others sleeves, and so on. Workers at the end of the line would assemble the various pieces.

If this approach were substantially more efficient, the factory—with its original 10 workers and 10 sewing machines—might now be able to produce as many as shirts per day, or more, even with no increase in labor or capital. A national economy may increase its GDP by increasing the total number of person-hours worked labor , by increasing the total amount of plant and equipment in use capital , or by increasing the efficiency with which labor and capital are used TFP.

So-called supply-side economists focus their attention on how to grow all three of these factors, in order to increase the total potential output—the supply side—of an economy. Supply-side economists argue that because lower tax rates allow everyone in the private sector to keep more of what they earn, tax relief provides citizens with strong incentives to work longer hours thus increasing labor , to save and invest more of their income thus increasing capi- tal , and to devote more attention to innovation of all kinds thus increasing efficiency, or TFP.

For all of these reasons, supply-siders in the United States have often favored reduc- tions in tax rates as the best way to grow GDP over the long run.

Although they, too, focus on the supply side, they have a very different concep- tion of the optimal use of public policy in boosting potential out- put supply. If you read in the newspaper that hourly pro- ductivity increased by 3 percent last year, this means that real GDP output divided by the total number of hours worked nationwide was 3 percent higher at the end of last year than it was at the end of the previous year.

In general, countries with high labor productivity enjoy higher wages and living standards than countries with low labor productivity. There are many reasons why labor productivity might be higher in one country than another, or why it might grow in a given country from one year to the next. In particular, greater availability of machinery and other capital equipment is typically associated with higher labor productivity.

Clearly, any- thing that causes labor, capital, or TFP to fall could potentially cause a decline in output, or at least a decline in its rate of growth. A massive earthquake, for example, could reduce output by destroying vast amounts of physical capital. Similarly, a deadly 22 Ch Economic analysts often pay close attention to the relationship between productivity and wages.

When, conversely, increases in labor productiv- ity outpace increases in wages, unit labor costs are said to be falling. Even something as seemingly noneconomic as religious strife could reduce output, by increasing tensions among employees of different faiths and thus reducing their collective efficiency and, in turn, TFP.

In some cases, however, output may decline sharply even in the absence of any earthquakes or epidemics. From to , for example, national output declined by more than 23 Ch The British economist John Maynard Keynes claimed to have the answer. In fact, our predicament is notoriously of another kind. It comes from some failure in the immaterial devices of the mind… Nothing is required, and nothing will avail, except a little clear thinking.

For some reason, people had gotten it into their heads that the economy was in trouble, and that belief rapidly became self-fulfilling. Families decided that they had bet- ter save more to prepare for the future. For example, if wages had fallen fast enough and far enough to reflect a reduced demand for labor, all unemployed workers would quickly have found new jobs, though admittedly at lower wages than they had enjoyed before.

In practice, however, markets sometimes falter. As a result, a negative shock—including a sud- den downturn in expectations—truly can drive an economy into an extended recession, where real incomes decline and both human and physical resources are left unemployed. Starting around the time of Keynes, therefore, economists began to realize that there was more to economic growth than just the supply side.

Demand mattered a great deal as well, par- ticularly since it could sometimes fall short. We will return to these topics in greater detail in chapter 3.

But for now it is worth remembering that actual output can fall short of potential output when demand falters. Labor, capital, and TFP are all very important, but so too are expectations. Recessions, which tend to come and go, are generally regarded as cyclical phenomena. Although there is no universally accepted definition of a recession, one rule of thumb is that a recession involves at least two consecutive quarters of negative real GDP growth. Carter et al.

With all this focus on output, even a loyal reader may be starting to entertain some doubts. But the reason they feel rich is that these assets provide them, indirectly, with a claim on future output.

If they own stock in a company, for example, then they are entitled to a share of its future profits, which are in turn based on the output the company produces and sells.

Another way to look at this is that people who own lots of financial assets feel rich because they believe they can always sell the assets for money and use the proceeds to buy any goods and services their hearts desire. In this sense as well, wealth simply represents a claim on future output. Indeed, this is why financial assets typically lose value in a depression, when output falls. At root, most financial assets represent claims on real produc- tive assets such as plant and equipment , which in turn are expected to generate output in the future.

But of course, all of these productive assets were once output themselves. One of the most important decisions that a society has to make—at least implicitly—is what to do with the output it produces.

One option is simply to consume all of it every year. The problem with focus- ing solely on the present is that it may eliminate the chance for a 27 Ch Instead of consuming everything today, a better strategy might be to save something for tomorrow. Current output that is intended to increase future output is called investment.

Fundamentally, investment can be financed in one of two ways—either through domestic savings which implies reduced consumption today or through borrowing from abroad which implies reduced consumption tomorrow.

In the United States at the present time, Americans do some of both. Based on expected returns and the cost of borrowing, as well as their own preferences, households decide how much to save, firms decide how much to invest, and foreigners decide how much to lend.

For the most part, however, these critical decisions are made privately in the marketplace every single day, by house- holds, firms, and foreign investors. There is no question that capital is vital in a capitalist economy. Hence the name. But it is equally important to remember that capital is derived from output and, ultimately, that it is but a means to an end—the end being to produce and to have access to more output in the future. As the baby boomers retire, each active worker paying into a national pen- sion system will have to support an ever-larger number of retirees.

Although the debate over pension reform has become highly contentious and highly technical in many countries, the essential problem is really quite simple, and it boils down to output. Each year, there is only so much national output to go around, and it somehow has to be divided between active workers who produce it and a growing number of retirees who mainly just consume it.

This, at root, is the job of a pension system—to divide national out- put between active workers and retirees. Keeping this simple point in mind is helpful in thinking about the basic challenges ahead and about the trade-offs involved in various reform proposals. One proposed reform envisions the creation of new government-sponsored individual retirement accounts IRAs. In other words, the pay-as-you-go approach and the IRA approach simply offer two different ways to divide the pie.

Current benefits, meanwhile, could be financed through borrowing until the transition was complete. Not surprisingly, this free lunch argument rests on several falla- cies. One basic mistake is to treat a portfolio of stocks and bonds as if it were a stockpile of actual output that an elderly person could consume straightaway.

If a large number of senior citizens liquidated their financial assets at the same time, in order to buy needed goods and ser- vices, they would soon find that the proceeds were much smaller than they had expected. Simply giving the elderly more pieces of paper—more stocks and bonds—does not guarantee that there will be more output for them to consume in the future.

A related—but even more subtle—mistake is to view every con- tribution to an IRA as an addition to national savings, which would in turn raise national output in the future. The problem, once again, is that stocks and bonds are just pieces of paper. They rep- resent legal claims on productive assets, but are not productive assets themselves. Whether or not IRAs would contribute to national savings depends entirely on how they were financed. If individuals or the government financed contributions to the new IRAs through borrowing, for example, then total savings would fail to rise as a result.

To increase savings 31 Ch The key question from a macroeconomic standpoint, there- fore, is not whether the senior citizens of tomorrow have IRAs or traditional Social Security benefits, but whether they or others reduced their consumption to prepare for their eventual retire- ment.

Unless savings are increased today, the division of output between active workers and retirees will be no less onerous tomorrow, regardless of whether we have a fully funded pension system based on individual accounts or a traditional pay-as-you- go system based on payroll taxes.

The impending pension crisis is one of the toughest problems facing policy makers all around the world. But the underlying problem is more straightforward than it seems. The amount of output a coun- try produces is its ultimate budget constraint, regardless of how many stocks or bonds or Social Security cards may be floating around. Unless its output grows, a country cannot give more to its retirees without giving less to its workers. The key point to remem- ber is that as a society, it is mainly output, not wealth and espe- cially not financial wealth , that we have to rely on in the end.

Money serves many purposes in a market economy, but one of the most vital is to facilitate exchange. Without money, the exchange of goods and services would be far less efficient.

If you were a farmer who grew wheat and wanted to take your family out to dinner, you would have to find a restaurant willing to accept a few bushels in exchange for a meal. Clearly, having one convenient commodity that everyone was willing or required to accept as payment would simplify the process immensely. And this is precisely why money is used as a medium of exchange in every market economy around the world.

In a monetized economy where people transact with 0 money , anyone wishing to purchase your wheat would simply 1 pay money for it, allowing you to buy a meal at a restaurant or 2 anything else you might want, subject solely to your having 3 enough money to cover the cost. Eventually, almost every national 7 government also took charge of creating its own currency, either 8 by coining it or printing it itself.

As we will see, how a government 9 does this has enormous implications for how its economy func- 0 tions and what types of risk its residents face in the marketplace. Perhaps this consumer prefers to start enjoying a new television set right away rather than saving up for a year before enjoying it.

Similarly, business managers may wish to borrow from a bank or float bonds when the interest rate on borrowing is lower than the return they expect they can make on a new investment. When interest rates rise, money obviously becomes more expensive, both for individuals and for firms, and thus the cost of buying things today relative to tomorrow or next year goes up. In part for these reasons, rising interest rates tend to slow the growth of output in the economy by slowing current consumption and investment , whereas falling interest rates tend to accelerate the growth of output by stimulating current con- sumption and investment.

An exchange rate, meanwhile, is simply the price of one cur- rency in terms of another. If it costs yen to buy one dollar, then the yen-to-dollar exchange rate is Conversely, the dollar-to-yen exchange rate is 0. If the yen-to-dollar exchange rate subsequently fell to 90, this would mean that the dollar had depreciated and the yen had appreciated , since it now took more dollars to buy one yen and fewer yen to buy one dollar.

There is no free lunch, however. The aggregate price level sometimes called the price defla- 0 tor is a bit more complicated, since it is not the price of any 1 one thing in particular. Broadly speaking, the aggregate price 2 level reflects the average price of all goods and services—or at 3 least of a broad subset of goods and services—in terms of 4 money. In a healthy economy, the money prices of individual 5 goods and services are changing all the time.

At any moment, 6 some may be rising and others falling. For example, the price of 7 milk might be rising while the price of computers is falling. In a period of inflation, when the aggre- 0 gate price level is increasing, most prices tend to rise, though 1 some will inevitably rise more than others. In a period of defla- 2 tion, by contrast, when the aggregate price level is decreasing, 3 most prices tend to fall, though again some will fall more than 4 others.

It should not be hard to see that the value—or price—of 5 money in terms of goods and services moves in exactly the 6 opposite direction as the aggregate price level.

When the price 7 level rises in a period of inflation , the value of money falls; 8 and when the price level falls in a period of deflation , the 9 value of money rises.

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