Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Covers many of the main macroeconomic issues, providing, through its example-rich approach, a strong emphasis on the role of expectations, the openness of modern economics, and the role of dynamics.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• I Introduction
• 1 A Tour of the World
• 2 A Tour of the Book
• II The Basics
• 3 The Goods Market
• 4 The Goods Market: Dynamics
• 5 Financial Markets
• 6 Goods and Financial Markets: The IS-LM
• III Expectations
• 7 Expectations: The Basic Tools
• 8 Expectations, Consumption, and Investment
• 9 Financial Markets and Expectations
• 10 Expectations, Policy, and Output
• IV Openenness
• 11 Openness in Goods and Financial Markets
• 12 The Goods Market in an Open Economy
• 13 Output, the Interest Rate, and the Exchange Rate
• 14 Expectations, Exchange-Rate Movements, and Exchange-Rate Crises
• V The Supply Side
• 15 The Labor Market
• 16 Putting All Markets Together
• 17 The Phillips Curve
• 18 Inflation, Disinflation, and Unemployment
• 19 Inflation, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates
• IV Pathologies
• 20 Pathologies I: High Unemployment
• 21 Pathologies: II: High Inflation
• VII The Long Run
• 22 The Facts of Growth
• 23 Saving, Capital Accumulation, and Output
• 24 Technological Progress and Growth
• VIII Change And Transition
• 25 Technological Progress, Unemployment, and Wages
• 26 Transition in Eastern Europe
• IX Policy
• 27 Should Policy Makers be Restrained?
• 28 Monetary Policy: A Summing Up
• 29 Fiscal Policy: A Summing Up
• X Epilogue
• 30 The Story of Macroeconomics
• Appendixes
• Where to Find Numbers
• National Income and Product Accounts
• A Math Refresher
• Glossary
• Index