Macroeconomics for Today with X-tra! CD-ROM and InfoTrac College Edition

by Tucker, Irvin B.

• ISBN13: 9780324114768
• ISBN10: 0324114761
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• 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 1 INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS	1	(104)
Introducing the Economic Way of Thinking	2	(30)
Applying Graphs to Economics	20	(12)
Production Possibilities, Opportunity Cost, and Economic Growth	32	(18)
Market Demand and Supply	50	(29)
Markets in Action	79	(26)
Applying Supply and Demand Analysis to Health Care	100	(5)
PART 2 MACROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS	105	(72)
Gross Domestic Product	106	(28)
A Four-Sector Circular Flow Model	132	(2)
Business Cycles and Unemployment	134	(24)
Inflation	158	(19)
PART 3 MACROECONOMIC THEORY AND POLICY	177	(146)
The Keynesian Model	178	(24)
The Keynesian Model in Action	202	(21)
Aggregate Demand and Supply	223	(33)
The Self-Correcting Aggregate Demand and Supply Model	248	(8)
Fiscal Policy	256	(21)
The Public Sector	277	(23)
Federal Deficits, Surpluses, and the National Debt	300	(23)
PART 4 MONEY, BANKING, AND MONETARY POLICY	323	(94)
Money and the Federal Reserve System	324	(21)
Money Creation	345	(21)
Monetary Policy	366	(26)
The Phillips Curve and Expectations Theory	392	(25)
PART 5 THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY	417	(80)
International Trade and Finance	418	(32)
Economies in Transition	450	(23)
Growth and the Less-Developed Countries	473	(24)
Appendix A Answers to Odd-Numbered Study Questions and Problems	497	(12)
Appendix B Practice Quiz Answers	509	(2)
Appendix C United States Gross Domestic Product and Related Statistics	511	(10)
Glossary	521	(8)
Index	529