Macroeconomics for Today

by Tucker, Irvin B.

• ISBN13: 9780324006223
• ISBN10: 0324006225
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-20
• Publisher: South-Western College Pub

Summary

MACROECONOMICS FOR TODAY, ALTERNATE EDITION text focuses on the self-correcting aggregate demand and supply model and excludes the Keynesian aggregate expenditures model. Figures and graphw make concepts easy to understand.

Table of Contents

PART I INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS	1	(113)
1 Introducing the Economic Way of Thinking	1	(32)
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 1 Applying Graphs to Economics	20	(13)
2 Production Possibilities and Opportunity Cost	33	(20)
3 Market Demand and Supply	53	(30)
4 Markets in Action	83	(31)
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 4 Applying Supply and Demand Analysis to Health Care	108	(6)
PART II MACROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS	114	(70)
5 Gross Domestic Product	113	(27)
6 Business Cycles and Unemployment	140	(24)
7 Inflation	164	(20)
PART III MACROECONOMIC THEORY AND POLICY	184	(140)
8 The Keynesian Model	184	(25)
9 The Keynesian Model in Action	209	(23)
10 Aggregate Demand and Supply	232	(26)
11 Fiscal Policy	258	(20)
12 The Public Sector	278	(24)
13 Federal Deficits, Surpluses, and the National Debt	302	(22)
PART IV MONEY, BANKING, AND MONETARY POLICY	324	(93)
14 Money and the Federal Reserve System	324	(21)
15 Money Creation	345	(21)
16 Monetary Policy	366	(27)
17 The Phillips Curve and Expectations Theory	393	(24)
PART V THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY	417	(80)
18 International Trade and Finance	417	(31)
19 Comparative Economic Systems	448	(23)
20 Growth and the Less-Developed Countries	471	(26)
APPENDIX A Answers to Odd-Numbered Study Questions and Problems	497	(12)
APPENDIX B Practice Quiz Answers	509	(4)
APPENDIX C United States Gross Domestic Product and Related Statistics	513	(8)
Glossary	521	(8)
Index	529