Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0130671002, Hardcover)

This book provides readers with an integrated view of macroeconomics, and enables them to make close contact with current macroeconomic events. Theoretical material is always presented within the context of a real world application in three ways: in words, in graphs, and with algebra. Chapter topics include the goods market; financial markets; the labor market; the natural rate of unemployment and The Phillips Curve; inflation, activity, and money growth; saving, capital accumulation, and output; technological progress and growth; technological progress, wages, and unemployment; expectations, consumption, and investment; expectations, output, and policy; output, the interest rate, and the exchange rate; exchange rate regimes; slumps and depressions; high inflation; and a summing up of monetary and fiscal policies. For anyone with an awareness of how macroeconomics can be used to get a better understanding of world events.