1. Explain the difference between general-equilibrium models and partial-equilibrium models. How are the numbers of endogenous and exogenous variables related to whether a model is a partial-equilibrium or general-equilibrium model?
2. Explain the major components of the market for goods and services. What key macroeconomic variables influence spending on those components?
3. What are some of the inconsistencies that made economists skeptical of the value of large, structural macroeconomic models? How did the overconfidence of macroeconomists after the long expansion of the 1960s lead to the inflation of the 1970s?
