Macroeconomics

Paul Krugman and Robin Wells’ signature storytelling style helps readers understand how economic concepts play out in our world. The new edition, revised and enhanced throughout, now offers holistic digital learning tools as part of SaplingPlus, a complete, integrated online learning system.

This new edition is revised and enhanced throughout, including a much stronger array of superior online tools that are part of a complete, integrated online learning system.

Part 1: What Is Economics?
Introduction An Engine for Growth and Discovery
Chapter 1 First Principles
Chapter 2 Economic Models: Trade-offs and Trade
Appendix: Graphs in Economics
 
Part 2: Supply and Demand
Chapter 3 Supply and Demand
Chapter 4 Price Controls and Quotas: Meddling with Markets
Chapter 5 International Trade
Appendix Consumer and Producer Surplus
 
Part 3: Introduction to Macroeconomics
Chapter 6 Macroeconomics: The Big Picture
Chapter 7 GDP and the CPI: Tracking the Macroeconomy
Chapter 8 Unemployment and Inflation
 
Part 4: Long-Run Economic Growth
Chapter 9 Long-Run Economic Growth
Chapter 10 Savings, Investment Spending, and the Financial System
Appendix Toward a Fuller Understanding of Present Value

Part 5 Short-Run Economic Fluctuations
Chapter 11 Income and Expenditure
Appendix Deriving the Multiplier Algebraically
Chapter 12 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply

Part 6 Stabilization Policy
Chapter 13 Fiscal Policy
Appendix Taxes and the Multiplier
Chapter 14 Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve System
Chapter 15 Monetary Policy
Appendix Reconciling the Two Models of the Interest Rate
Chapter 16 Inflation, Disinflation, and Deflation

Part 7 Events and Ideas
Chapter 17 Macroeconomics: Events and Ideas

Part 15 The Open Economy
Chapter 18 International Macroeconomics