Macroeconomics : Analysis, Decision Making, and Policy

Part 1. Foundations -- 1. Some Foundations and Beginnings -- 2. the Methods of Economics: Theories, Facts, and Fantasy -- 3. Prices, Profits, and the Market System -- 4. Consumers and Market Demand -- 5. The Modern Corporation, Business Firms, and Market Supply -- 6. Supply, Demand, and Prices in a Market-Directed Economy -- -- Part 2. National Income, Employment, and Inflation -- 7. Measures of Macroeconomic Performance -- 8. Economic Growth: The High Road or the Low Road? -- 9. Inflation and Unemployment: The Twin Traps -- 10. Aggregate Demand and Supply -- 11. Aggregate Demand, Income, and Employment: Keynesian Analysis -- 12. Aggregate Demand, Multipliers, and Fiscal Policy: Post-Keynesian Analysis -- 13. Money, Output, and Prices: Monetarist Analysis -- 14. Post-Keynesian and Rational Expectations Analysis: New Approaches to Old Problems -- 15. Economics, Politics, and Public Choice: How Munch Should Governments Do? -- 16. Government and the Marketplace: Public Goods -- 17. Business Cycles: Short-Run Dynamics and Disequilibrium Analysis -- 18. Fiscal Policy, Deficit, and Control of Government Spending -- 19. Money and the Federal Reserve -- 20. Monetary Policy -- 21. Supply-Side Economics for Growth and Stabilization -- -- Part 3. International Economics in a Shrinking Economic World -- 22. International Trade and Lending -- 23. Exchange Rates, Interest Rates, and International Adjustments -- 24. Current International Economic Problems -- -- Part 4. Economic Growth: Causes and Consequences -- 25. The Theory and Process of Economic Growth -- 26. Economic Growth in the United States -- -- Part 5. The Changing Economic World -- 27. The Developing Economies -- 28. Overview: Economic Systems and Ideologies -- -- Mathematical Appendixes -- Suggestions for Analysis of Cases -- Index