Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-245) and index
1. Introduction -- 2. Macro measurements -- 3. Individual equilibrium -- 4. Saving -- 5. Capital -- 6. Labor, production, and economic growth -- 7. Deficit spending -- 8. Taxes and the macroeconomy -- 9. Excess supply and excess demand -- 10. Equilibrium low employment -- 11. The great contraction -- 12. Lessons from recent macroeconomic policy making -- 13. The macroeconomic challenge -- References -- Index.
Macroeconomics is the study of the economy as a whole and of work and saving choices of individual economic agents from which macroeconomic activity emerges. This book takes an integrative approach to that topic, showing how short-run and long-run forces operate simultaneously to determine the behavior of key economic indicators such as employment and real, inflation-adjusted GDP..