Macroeconomics for Life: Smart Choices for All?

Brief Table of Contents

Ch 1What’s In Economics For You?
Scarcity, Opportunity Cost, Trade
Ch 2Making Smart Choices
The Law of Demand
Ch 3Show Me the Money
The Law of Supply
Ch 4Coordinating Smart Choices
Demand and Supply
Ch 5Are Your Smart Choices Smart for All?
From Microeconomics and Macroeconomics
Ch 6Up Around the Circular Flow
Measuring GDP and Living Standard
Ch 7Do Macroeconomic Ideas Come True?
Potential GDP, Economic Growth, and Business Cycles
Ch 8Costs of (Not) Working and Living
Unemployment and Inflation
Ch 9Skating to Where the Puck is Going
The Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand Model
Ch 10What's Behind Aggregate Demand?
The Aggregate Expenditure Model and Multipliers
Ch 11Trading Dollars for Dollars?
Exchange Rates and Payments with the Rest of the World
Ch 12Steering Blindly?
Money and Monetary Policy
Ch 13Spending Others’ Money
Fiscal Policy, Deficits, and National Debt
Ch 14Are Sweatshops All Bad?
Globalization, Trade, and Protectionism
Ch 15Hands-Off and/or Hands-On?
Controversies in Macroeconomics