Principles of macroeconomics

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Record details

ISBN: 9780357133491 (softcover)
ISBN: 0357133498
Physical Description: print
xxv, 531 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Edition: Ninth edition.
Publisher: Boston, MA : Cengage, [2021]

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Includes index.

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Part 1: Introduction -- Ten Principles of Economics -- Thinking Like an Economist -- Interdependence and the Gains from Trade -- Part 2: How markets work -- The market forces of supply and demand -- Part 3: The Data of Macroeconomics -- Measuring a Nation's Income -- Measuring the Cost of Living -- Part 4: The Real Economy in the Long Run -- Production and Growth -- Saving, Investment, and the Financial System -- Unemployment and Its Natural Rate -- Part 5: Money and Prices in the Long Run. The Monetary System -- Money Growth and Inflation -- Part 6: The Macroeconomics of Open Economies -- Open-Economy Macroeconomics: Basic Concepts -- A Macroeconomic Theory of the Small Open Economy -- Part 7: Short-Run Economy Fluctuations -- Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply -- The Influence of Monetary Policy on Aggregate Demand -- The Influence of Fiscal Policy on Aggregate Demand -- The Short-Run Tradeoff Between Inflation and Unemployment