| TITLE : MACROECONOMICS. |
Contents
Part One
Introduction 1
1. Economics and Economic Issues 3
2. Scarcity, Choice, and the Economic Problem 21
3. The Nature of the Mixed Economy 43
4. Supply, Demand, and Price Determination 63
Part Two
Aggregate Income, Employment, and Fiscal Policy
5. Measuring National Income and Product 91
6. Economic Fluctuations, Unemployment, and Inflation 113
7. Building Blocks of Income and Employment Theory: Consumption,
Saving, and Investment 137
8. Determining Total Income, Output, and Employment 165
9. Government Spending, Taxation, and Fiscal Policy 197
Part Three
Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy 223
10. The Nature and Functions of Money and Banking 225
11. Banks, Money Creation, and the Role of the
Federal Reserve System 247
12. The Role of Money in Income Determination 275
Part Four
Inflation, Unemployment, Economic Stability, and Growth 297
13. Monetary and Fiscal Policy: Keynesian and Monetarist Views 299
14. Inflation, Unemployment, and the Dilemma of Stagflation 323
15. Guidelines, Controls, Indexing, and Jobs 351
16. Economic Growth 375
Part Five
International Economics and World Trade 401
17. International Trade and the National Economy 403
18. Balance of Payments, Exchange Rates, and the International
Financial System 429
Glossary 457
Index 465