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Macroeconomics prologue
Part 1 The data of macroeconomics
1 Measuring a nation´s well-being
2 Measuring the cost of living
Part 2 The real economy in the long run
3 Production and growth
4 Unemployment
Part 3 Interest rates, money and prices in the long run
5 Saving, investment and the financial system
6 The basic tools of finance
7 Issues in Financial Markets
8 The monetary system
9 Money growth and inflation
Part 4 The macroeconomics of open economies
10 Open-economy macroeconomics: Basic concepts
11 A macroeconomic theory of the open economy
Part 5 Short-run economic fluctuations
12 Business cycles 13 Keynesian economics and IS-LM analysis
14 Aggregate demand and aggregate supply
15 The influence of monetary and fiscal policy on aggregate demand
16 The short-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment
17 Supply-side policies
Part 6 International macroeconomics
18 Common currency areas and European monetary union
19 The financial crisis and sovereign debt

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Mankiw, N.
N. Gregory Mankiw is Professor of Economics at Harvard University. As a student, he studied economics at Princeton University and MIT. As a teacher, he has taught macroeconomics, microeconomics, statistics, and principles of economics. He even spent one summer long ago as a sailing instructor on Long Beach Island. Professor Mankiw is a prolific writer and a regular participant in academic and policy debates. His work has been published in scholarly journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics, and in more popular forums such as The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Fortune. He is also author of the best-selling intermediate-level textbook Macroeconomics (Worth Publishing). In addition to his teaching, research, and writing, Professor Mankiw has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Congressional Budget Office, and a member of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) test development committee for the advanced placement exam in economics. From 2003 to 2005, he served as Chairman of the President´s Council of Economic Advisers.

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