Macroeconomics, Global Edition -- MyLab Economics with Pearson eText

Michael Parkin studied economics in England and began his university teaching career immediately after graduating with a B.A. from the University of Leicester. He learned the subject on the job at the University of Essex, England's most exciting new university of the 1960s, and at the age of 30 became one of the youngest full professors. He is a past president of the Canadian Economics Association and has served on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and the Journal of Monetary Economics. His research on macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international economics has resulted in more than 160 publications in journals and edited volumes, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. He is author of the best-selling textbook, Economics (Pearson).

PART 1: INTRODUCTION
1. What is Economics?
2. The Economic Problem
3. Demand and Supply
PART 2: MONITORING MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
4. Monitoring the Value of Production: GDP
5. Monitoring Jobs and Inflation
PART 3: MACROECONOMIC TRENDS
6. Economic Growth
7. Finance, Saving, and Investment
8. Money, the Price Level, and Inflation
9. The Exchange Rate and the Balance of Payments
PART 4: MACROECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS
10. Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand
11. Expenditure Multipliers
12. The Business Cycle, Inflation, and Deflation
PART 5: MACROECONOMIC POLICY
13. Fiscal Policy
14. Monetary Policy
15. International Trade Policy