Study Guide for Macroeconomics

by Robinson, Bill

• ISBN13: 9780324017496
• ISBN10: 0324017499
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-30
• Publisher: South-Western College Pub

Summary

Each chapter of the study guide offers chapter objectives, a chapter outline, key terms to know, multiple-choice and true/false self test questions, and when appropriate additional graphing problems. The answers for each problem are located at the end of the study guide.

Table of Contents

What Economics Is About	1	(11)
Trade, Tradeoffs, and Economic Systems	12	(11)
Supply, Demand, and Price: The Theory	23	(11)
Applications of Supply and Demand: Using Supply and Demand to Explain Market and Nonmarket Behavior	34	(12)
Macroeconomic Measurements, Part I: Prices and Unemployment	46	(12)
Macroeconomic Measurements, Part II: GDP and Real GDP	58	(12)
Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply	70	(11)
The Self-Regulating Economy	81	(9)
Economic Instability: A Critique of the Self-Regulating Economy	90	(10)
Fiscal Policy	100	(9)
Taxes, Deficits, Surpluses, and the Public Debt	109	(7)
Money and Banking	116	(9)
The Federal Reserve System	125	(10)
Money and the Economy	135	(11)
Monetary Policy	146	(10)
Expectations Theory and the Economy	156	(11)
Economic Growth: Resources, Technology, and Ideas	167	(10)
International Trade	177	(10)
International Finance	187	(10)
International Economic Development	197	(6)
Answer Key	203