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Table of Contents
PART I: ECONOMICS: THE SCIENCE OF SCARCITY.
1. What Economics Is About.
Appendix A: Working with Diagrams.
Appendix B: Should You Major in Economics?
2. Production Possibilities Frontier.
3. Supply and Demand: Theory.
4. Prices: Free, Controlled, and Relative.
5. Supply, Demand, and Price: Applications.
PART II: MACROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS.
6. Macroeconomic Measurements, Part I: Prices and Unemployment.
7. Macroeconomic Measurements, Part II: GDP and Real GDP.
PART III: MACROECONOMIC STABILITY, INSTABILITY, AND FISCAL POLICY.
8. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply.
9. Classical Macroeconomics and the Self-Regulating Economy.
10. Keynesian Macroeconomics and Economic Instability: A Critique of the Self-Regulating
Economy.
11. Fiscal Policy and the Federal Budget.
PART IV: MONEY, THE ECONOMY, AND MONETARY POLICY.
12. Money, Banking and the Financial System.
13. The Federal Reserve System.
14. Money and the Economy.
15. Monetary Policy.
Appendix C: Bond Prices and Interest Rates.
PART V: EXPECTATIONS AND GROWTH.
16. Expectations Theory and the Economy.
17. Economic Growth: Resources, Technology, Ideas, and Institutions .
PART VI: THE FINANCIAL CRISIS OF 2007-2009.
18. The Financial Crisis of 2007-2009.
PART VII: GOVERNMENT AND THE ECONOMY.
19. Debates in Macroeconomics Over the Role and Effects of Government.
PART VIII: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND GLOBALIZATION.
20. International Trade.
21. International Finance.
22. Globalization and International Impacts on the Economy.
PART IX: FINANCIAL MATTERS.
23. Stocks, Bonds, Futures, and Options.
592 pages, Paperback
