References & Source Map
Everything on this site is traceable to one of the files in your macro economic folder. This page lists them, records exactly which pages and slides were used, and — just as importantly — states plainly what could not be verified.
Every citation on this site is a live link. Click p. 21 or Slide 3 and the exact textbook page or lecture slide opens in a panel on the right, already scrolled to the right place. Use ←/→ to page through, drag the left edge to resize, and press Esc to close.
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Primary sources used
This is the text your course policy prescribes as T1, and it is the file Macroeconomics_H_L_Ahuja.pdf in your folder — 952 PDF pages, intact and fully readable. It is the source of every exam-ready answer and every diagram on this site.
Page numbering: the PDF's page 1 is a cover, so the book's printed page number is 16 lower than the PDF's. Every citation on this site uses the printed page number — the number you would see on the page itself — and the viewer applies the offset for you. Printed p. 21 = PDF page 37.
| Chapter | Printed pages | What was taken from it | Used in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Part 1, Ch. 1 Nature and Scope of Macroeconomics |
3–19 | Definition and Ackley's "study of aggregates"; Say's Law and the classical view; the Keynesian revolution; the six major issues; macroeconomic paradoxes (thrift, wages); importance of macroeconomics; macroeconomics and business decisions; the role of government and the three policy types; Questions for Review | Unit 1 (all five concepts) |
| Part 1, Ch. 2 Circular Flow of Income and National Income Accounting |
21–52 | Two-, three- and four-sector circular flow with Figs. 2.1–2.3; leakages and injections; the saving–investment identity; GDP, GNP, NDP, NNP, NI, PI, PDI with Figs. 2.4–2.5; nominal vs real GNP and the deflator; the three measurement methods and their precautions; limitations of GDP as a welfare measure and Net Economic Welfare; Questions for Review including two numerical problems | Unit 2 concepts 1–3, Numerical Lab problems 1–2 |
| Part 1, Ch. 6 Consumption Function |
149–169 | The consumption function C = a + bY with Figs. 6.1–6.4; APC and MPC and why APC falls while MPC is constant; shifts in the consumption function; the saving function and Fig. 6.5; APC + APS = 1 and MPC + MPS = 1; Tables 6.1 and 6.2; Questions for Review including the schedule-completion problem | Unit 2 concepts 4–5, Numerical Lab problems 5–6 |
| Part 2, Ch. 10 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply |
230–260 | Why AD slopes downward; the classical dichotomy; classical, Keynesian and short-run aggregate supply curves with Fig. 10.1; equilibrium and the effect of shifts; Questions for Review | Unit 2 concept 6 |
| Part 2, Ch. 12 The IS-LM Curve Model |
297–321 | Derivation of the IS curve (Fig. 12.1) and the LM curve (Fig. 12.3); slopes and shifts of each; simultaneous equilibrium (Fig. 12.5); fiscal and monetary policy in the three ranges of LM; crowding out; Questions for Review | Unit 2 concept 7 |
| Part 5, Ch. 27 Analysis of Business Cycles |
585–605 | Definition of the business cycle and Keynes' and Crowther's statements; the costs of cycles; the four phases with Figs. 27.1–27.2; cycles with a growth trend; the multiplier–accelerator interaction; turning points; Questions for Review | Unit 3 concepts 1–3 |
| Part 5, Ch. 27C Real Business Cycle Theory |
623–626 | The supply-side account of fluctuations — technology shocks rather than demand shifts. Included because the instruction plan's Lecture 14 reference points here; see the note under Discrepancies. | Unit 3 concept 3 (flagged, not taught as core) |
| Part 5, Ch. 28 Economic Stabilisation: Fiscal Policy |
627–637 | The three goals of macro policy; discretionary fiscal policy for recession and inflation; the multiplier and public works with Fig. 28.1; automatic stabilisers and the one-third estimate; the crowding-out effect; Questions for Review | Unit 3 concept 4 |
| Part 5, Ch. 29 Economic Stabilisation: Monetary Policy |
639–647 | Expansionary and tight money policy; open market operations, bank rate, CRR and SLR with the April 1996 CRR example; Keynes' two elasticity objections and the liquidity trap; the monetarist view; Questions for Review | Unit 3 concept 5 |
172 individual textbook pages are rendered into the source viewer, covering every page cited anywhere on this site. If a citation exists, the page behind it is available to open.
Lecture materials
| File | Slides / pages | What it contributed |
|---|---|---|
Module 1 - Introduction to Macroeconomics.pptx |
10 slides | The lecture's own framing of the importance of macroeconomics Slide 7, the subject-matter questions Slide 8, macroeconomics and business decisions Slide 9, and the three types of government economic policy Slide 10 |
Module 2- Circular Flow.pptx |
8 slides | The two-player model and money flows Slide 2; the two-sector diagram Slide 3; leakages and injections and their consequences Slides 7–8 |
Module 2- National Income.pptx |
15 slides | The concept definitions and formulas Slides 2–7; the three methods and each one's own limitations Slides 8–13; uses of national income data Slide 14; difficulties in measurement Slide 15 |
Module 2- AD & AS.pptx |
6 slides | Section structure for aggregate demand and aggregate supply. This deck is almost entirely images; the substance came from Ahuja Ch. 10. |
Module 2 IS-LM.pptx |
12 slides | Goods-market equilibrium and the interest–investment link Slide 4; money demand, and the point that the LM curve alone determines neither variable Slide 7; the model's four building blocks Slide 9 |
Module 2- Saving Function and Investment.pptx |
9 slides | Deriving the saving function from the consumption function Slide 4; the classification of investment — induced, autonomous, private, public, planned, involuntary Slide 8 |
Module 2 Consumption Function.pdf |
34 pages | Supplementary notes on the consumption function, supporting Unit 2 concept 4 |
Module 3 - Business Cycle.pptx |
14 slides | The four phases in the lecture's own words Slides 4–8; the causes of fluctuations list Slide 9; the Great Depression case with US and global data Slides 10–14 |
Module 3- Monetary and Fiscal Policy.pptx |
12 slides | Monetary policy defined in the Indian/RBI context, with its four elements Slide 2; fiscal policy defined Slide 6; the four fiscal instruments — public expenditure Slide 8, taxation Slide 9, public debt Slide 10, deficit financing Slide 11 |
Course documents
| File | Pages | Used for |
|---|---|---|
Syllabus-Macroeconomics.pdf | 2 pages | The detailed unit-wise syllabus, course objectives and outcomes, teaching scheme and course code 703TG0C009 |
Course Policy_Macroeconmics_2026-27.pdf | 12 pages | The prescribed book list, and the instruction plan pp. 6–8 mapping each of the 30 lectures to specific textbook chapters and page ranges — the backbone of how this site is organised |
Reference books named by your course
- Rudiger Dornbusch, Stanley Fischer and Richard Startz, Macroeconomics, 12th Edition, McGraw Hill Education Pvt. Ltd., 2018.
- D. N. Dwivedi, Managerial Economics, 9th Edition, Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, 2021.
The instruction plan cites R1 alongside T1 for three lectures in the midterm portion — Lecture 7 (National Income, R1 Ch. 2 pp. 23–42) and Lecture 8 (AD-AS, R1 Ch. 5 pp. 101–110) Policy pp. 6–7. Neither reference book is among the files you supplied, so nothing on this site is attributed to them. Everything credited to a book comes from Ahuja, which is the file actually available.
Discrepancies and things that could not be verified
These are recorded here rather than smoothed over, because knowing where a source is unreliable is part of using it well.
Your folder contains Macroeconomics-Mankiw.pdf (159 MB). It cannot be opened by any tool: it has no %%EOF marker and no cross-reference table, ends mid-stream, and both qpdf and Ghostscript fail on it ("unable to find trailer dictionary"). It is a truncated download, not a damaged-but-repairable file — the missing bytes were never written, so no repair is possible. You would need to download it again.
Impact on this site: none. Mankiw is not on your prescribed list — T1 is Ahuja and R1 is Dornbusch/Fischer/Startz and Dwivedi. Nothing here needed it.
The instruction plan assigns Lecture 14 (Causes of Fluctuations) to "T1: Part 5, Chapter 27 pp. 623–" with the end page left blank Policy p. 7. In this printing of Ahuja, printed p. 623 is the start of Chapter 27C, "Real Business Cycle Theory" p. 623 — a supply-side theory, not the demand-side explanations (investment volatility, multiplier–accelerator, monetarism) that the topic normally covers and that the lecture deck itself teaches.
How this site handles it: the demand-side explanations and the lecture deck's own list of causes are treated as the substance of the topic, and Real Business Cycle Theory is flagged in a short note on Unit 3 with its pages rendered, so you can read it and decide. No guess has been made about what the missing end page was meant to be.
Ahuja's Ch. 2 review question 30 p. 52 labels one data item "net direct taxes ₹ 100 crore". Read literally, the income and expenditure methods then give different answers (₹ 1,330 vs ₹ 1,430 crore). They reconcile exactly if the item is read as net indirect taxes. Numerical Lab problem 2 solves it both ways and explains the discrepancy rather than hiding it.
Ahuja's text on p. 152 discusses "Table 6.1" and quotes two of its rows (Y = 1,000 → C = 950; Y = 1,200 → C = 1,090), but the table itself does not appear on that page or the next in this PDF. Numerical Lab problem 6 therefore uses only the two rows the text actually states, derives C = 250 + 0.7Y from them, and marks clearly which rows are the textbook's and which follow from the function.
You asked for timestamps on the video links. Every video in the Video Library has been verified to exist, with its real title and channel confirmed programmatically against YouTube's oEmbed API — but YouTube's video pages could not be opened from this environment, so chapter markers and durations could not be read. Rather than print timestamps that might be wrong, none are given, and the reason is stated on the page itself. Most of the videos are single-topic and short enough that the whole video is the relevant section.
Midterm scope vs the full syllabus
The scope used throughout this site comes from the midterm portion you specified — Units 1 and 2 in full, and Unit 3 up to Economic Stabilization: Monetary Policy and Fiscal Policy. Here is how that compares with the complete syllabus Syllabus p. 1:
| Syllabus unit | Hours | Lectures | In this midterm portion? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 — Nature and Scope of Macroeconomics | 4 | 1–4 | Yes, in full → Unit 1 |
| 2 — Circular Flow Model of the Economy and National Income | 8 | 5–12 | Yes, in full → Unit 2 |
| 3 — Business Cycle and Macroeconomic Policies Introduction to Business Cycle, Phases, Causes of Fluctuations, Economic Stabilization — Monetary and Fiscal Policy | 6 | 13–16 | Yes → Unit 3 |
| 3 — continued: Inflation — meaning, types, causes and effects; policy measures to control inflation; inflation in less developed countries; Inflation and Unemployment — Phillips Curve Model | — | 17–18 | No — after the midterm cut-off |
| 4 — Central Bank and Money | 6 | 19–24 | No — after the midterm cut-off |
| 5 — Government and the Private Business | — | 25–30 | No — after the midterm cut-off |
If your midterm turns out to include Inflation and the Phillips Curve after all, say so and those two topics can be added — the material for them is Ahuja Part 4, Ch. 26 (pp. 546–575) and Ch. 25A (p. 544), both inside the same PDF.
How this site was built
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python-pptx, including speaker notes. - Rendering the source viewer.
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What is and is not the textbook's
- Exam-Ready Answers are built from the textbook's own content, restructured into continuous prose you can write out under time pressure. Wording is smoothed; meaning is not changed, and nothing unsupported has been added.
- Examples marked "Illustrative" are written for this site to drill a method. Their numbers are invented; the method is the textbook's. They are never presented as the textbook's own examples.
- Chapter numbers, section titles and page numbers were all read off the actual PDF. Where a location could not be verified, none is given rather than a plausible guess.
- Lecture numbers come from the instruction plan in the course policy, not from inference.