Macroeconomics

Overview

Main description

Steve Slavin’s lively and comprehensive Macroeconomics has a student-friendly, step-by-step approach; value pricing; and a built-in Workbook/Study Guide. Instructors and students like the author’s humorous anecdotes, direct language, patient step-by-step treatment of math, and easy conversational style. The text encourages active rather than passive reading.

Table of contents

1. A Brief Economics History of the United States2. Resource Utilization3. The Mixed Economy4. Supply and Demand5. The Household-Consumption Sector6. The Business-Investment Sector7. The Government Sector8. The Export-Import Sector9. Gross Domestic Product10. Economc Fluctuations, Unemployment, and Inflation11. Classical and Keynesian Economics12. Fiscal Policy and the National Debt13. Money and Banking14. The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy15. A Century of Economic Theory16. Economic Growth and Productivity17. Income Distribution and Poverty18. International Trade19. International FinanceGlossaryIndex