Macroeconomics

I. INTRODUCTION AND MEASUREMENT. 1. What is Macroeconomics? 2. The Measurement of Income, Prices, and Unemployment. II. INCOME, INTEREST RATES, POLICY, AND THE OPEN ECONOMY. 3. The Simple Keynesian Theory of Income Determination. 4. The IS-LM Model. 5. Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy, and the Government Budget. 6. International Trade, Exchange Rates, and Macroeconomic Policy. III. INFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT. 7. Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, and the Self-Correcting Economy. 8. Inflation: Its Causes and Cures. 9. The Goals of Stabilization Policy: Low Inflation and Low Unemployment. IV. MACROECONOMICS IN THE LONG RUN: GROWTH AND PUBLIC FINANCE. 10. The Theory of Economic Growth. 11. The Big Questions of Economic Growth. 12. The Government Budget, the Public Debt, and Social Security. V. STABILIZATION POLICY IN AN OPEN ECONOMY. 13. Money and Financial Markets. 14. Stabilization Policy in the Closed and Open Economy. VI. SOURCES OF INSTABILITY IN THE PRIVATE ECONOMY. 15. Instability in the Private Economy: Consumption Behavior. 16. Instability in the Private Economy: Investment. VII. DEBATES AT THE MACROECONOMIC FRONTIER. 17. New Classical Macro Confronts New Keynesian Macro. 18. Conclusion: Where We Stand.Gordon, Robert J. is the author of 'Macroeconomics', published 2002 under ISBN 9780201770360 and ISBN 0201770369.