Macroeconomics

Charles I. Jones is The STANCO 25 Professor of Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Jones has been honored as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Econometric Society, and a co-editor of Econometrica. He is currently the area coordinator for the economics group at Stanford GSB.

Part 1 — Preliminaries
1: Introduction to Macroeconomics
2: Measuring the Macroeconomy

Part 2 — The Long Run
3: An Overview of Long-Run Economic Growth
4: A Model of Production
5: The Solow Growth Model
6: Growth and Ideas
7: The Labor Market, Wages, and Unemployment
8: Inflation

Part 3 — The Short Run
9: An Introduction to the Short-Run 
10: The Great Recession: A First Look
11: The IS Curve
12: Monetary Policy and the Phillips Curve
13: Stabilization Policy and the AS/AD Framework
14: The Great Recession and the Short-Run Model
15: DSGE Models: The Frontier of Business Cycle Research

Part 4 — Applications and Microfoundations
16: Consumption
17: Investment
18: The Government and the Macroeconomy
19: International Trade
20: Exchange Rates and International Finance
21: Parting Thoughts