Cover: Macroeconomics, 7th Edition by Paul Krugman; Robin Wells; Iris Au; Jack Parkinson

Macroeconomics

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Seventh  Edition©2024  Paul Krugman; Robin Wells; Iris Au; Jack Parkinson

ISBN:9781319481445

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Krugman/Wells helps you achieve economic understanding

Krugman and Wells explain the principles of  economics in a way that is both accessible and engaging. Drawing on current economic events, there is no one more effective than Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and co-author Robin Wells at helping readers understand the context of economics in their own lives. In this best-selling introductory textbook, Krugman and Wells’ signature storytelling style and uncanny eye for revealing examples will help you understand how economic concepts play out in your world.

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Table of Contents

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 2: 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
 
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 10: Toward a Fuller Understanding of Present Value

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

Part 6: Stabilization Policy
Chapter 13 Fiscal Policy
Appendix 13: Taxes and the Multiplier
Chapter 14 Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve System
Chapter 15 Monetary Policy
Appendix 15: 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 8: The Open Economy
Chapter 18 International Macroeconomics

Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman, recipient of the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, is a faculty member of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, associated with the Luxembourg Income Study, which tracks and analyzes income inequality around the world. Prior to that, he taught at Princeton University for 14 years. He received his Barroom Yale and his PhD from MIT. Before Princeton, he taught at Yale, Stanford, and MIT. He also spent a year on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers in 1982–1983. His research has included pathbreaking work on international trade, economic geography, and currency crises. In 1991, Krugman received the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark medal. In addition to his teaching and academic research, Krugman writes extensively for nontechnical audiences. He is a regular-ed columnist for the New York Times. His best-selling trade books include End This Depression Now!, The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, a history of recent economic troubles and their implications for economic policy, and The Conscience of a Liberal, a study of the political economy of economic inequality and its relationship with political polarization from the Gilded Age to the present. His earlier books, Peddling Prosperity and The Age of Diminished Expectations, have become modern classics.

Robin Wells

Robin Wells was a Lecturer and Researcher in Economics at Princeton University. She received her BA from the University of Chicago and her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley; she then did postdoctoral work at MIT. She has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Southampton (United Kingdom), Stanford, and MIT.

Iris Au

Iris Au is a Professor, Teaching Stream in Economics at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC). She received her BA, MA, and PhD from Simon Fraser University. She taught at Simon Fraser University and Kwantlen University College (now known as Kwantlen Polytechnic University) before joining UTSC. Currently, she teaches introductory and intermediate macroeconomics, international finance, economics of public policy, and topics on financial crises on a regular basis.

Jack Parkinson

Jack Parkinson is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in Economics at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC). He received his Hons. BA from Western University and his MA and PhD from the University of Toronto. He has worked as a corporate tax policy analyst for the Ontario Ministry of Finance while teaching during his lunchtime or evenings. Over the past 30 years he has taught on all three campuses of the University of Toronto. Currently, he teaches introductory microeconomics and macroeconomics, intermediate microeconomics and macroeconomics, money and banking, economics of organization, and industrial organization.