Book description
- Analyze long-run economic growth, deficits, and inflation
- Examine business cycles and monetary and fiscal policies
- Explore indicators such as unemployment
Make sense of macroeconomics
Macroeconomics helps us understand important things about our economy and, more importantly, how to improve it. Whether you're enrolled in a class or simply want to grasp key concepts you come across every day—such as inflation, unemployment, and economic growth—you've come to the right place.
Inside…
- Look at key concepts
- Measure what matters
- Understand interest rates
- Determine prices
- Analyze economic shocks
- Examine macro policy
- Spot financial weaknesses
- Consider financial crises
Table of contents
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- Cover
- Introduction
- Part 1: Getting Started with Macroeconomics
- Part 2: Measuring the Things That Matter
- Part 3: The Long-Run Macro Economy
- Part 4: Modeling the Short-Run Macro Economy
- Part 5: Examining Macroeconomic Policy
- Part 6: Understanding the Financial Crisis
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Part 7: The Part of Tens
- Chapter 19: Getting to Know Ten Great Macroeconomists
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Chapter 20: Ten Top Tips to Take Away
- Ultimately, Real Things Are What Count
- Growth Compounds
- Excessive Growth in the Money Supply Causes High Inflation in the Long Run
- There’s No Trade-Off between Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run
- Government Has a Budget Constraint
- The Value of Commitment
- Cyclical Unemployment Is Costly
- Monetary and Fiscal Policy Can Be Stabilizing
- Financial Markets Are Important … and Fragile
- Efficient Markets Should Be Surprised
- About the Authors
- Connect with Dummies
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Macroeconomics For Dummies
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2016
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9781119184423
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