Macroeconomics: AND Macroeconomics Sixth Edition Update Booklet 2008-2009

PART 1 INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 Introduction to Macroeconomics 1.1 What Macroeconomics Is About 1.2 What Macroeconomists Do 1.3 Why Macroeconomists Disagree Chapter 2 The Measurement and Structure of the National Economy 2.1 National Income Accounting: The Measurement of Production, Income, and Expenditure 2.2 Gross Domestic Product 2.3 Saving and Wealth 2.4 Real GDP, Price Indexes, and Inflation 2.5 Interest Rates PART 2 LONG-RUN ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE Chapter 3 Productivity, Output, and Employment 3.1 How Much Does the Economy Produce? The Production Function 3.2 The Demand for Labor 3.3 The Supply of Labor 3.4 Labor Market Equilibrium 3.5 Unemployment 3.6 Relating Output and Unemployment: Okun's Law Chapter 4 Consumption, Saving, and Investment 4.1 Consumption and Saving 4.2 Investment 4.3 Goods Market Equilibrium Chapter 5 Saving and Investment in the Open Economy 5.1 Balance of Payments Accounting 5.2 Goods Market Equilibrium in an Open Economy 5.3 Saving and Investment in a Small Open Economy 5.4 Saving and Investment in Large Open Economies 5.5 Fiscal Policy and the Current Account Chapter 6 Long-Run Economic Growth 6.1 The Sources of Economic Growth 6.2 Growth Dynamics: The Solow Model 6.3 Government Policies to Raise Long-Run Living Standards Chapter 7 The Asset Market, Money, and Prices 7.1 What Is Money? 7.2 Portfolio Allocation and the Demand for Assets 7.3 The Demand for Money 7.4 Asset Market Equilibrium 7.5 Money Growth and Inflation PART 3 BUSINESS CYCLES AND MACROECONOMIC POLICY Chapter 8 Business Cycles 8.1 What Is a Business Cycle? 8.2 The American Business Cycle: The Historical Record 8.3 Business Cycle Facts 8.4 Business Cycle Analysis: A Preview Chapter 9 The IS-LM/AD-AS Model: A General Framework for Macroeconomic Analysis 9.1 The FE Line: Equilibrium in the Labor Market 9.2 The IS Curve: Equilibrium in the Goods Market 9.3 The LM Curve: Asset Market Equilibrium 9.4 General Equilibrium in the Complete IS - LM Model 9.5 Price Adjustment and the

Andrew B. Abel is the Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor of Finance at the Wharton School and professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his AB summa cum laude from Princeton University and holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Abel has published extensively on fiscal policy, capital formation, monetary policy, asset pricing, and social security as well as serving on the editorial boards of numerous journals. He has been honored as the Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a recipient of the John Kenneth Galbraith Award for teaching excellence. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Advisory Board of the Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series. Ben S. Bernanke Previously the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, Ben Bernanke received both the Allyn Young Prize for best Harvard undergraduate economics thesis and the John H. Williams prize for outstanding senior in the economics department. He went on to earn his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he has been honored as a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Currently, he is Chairman and a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Dean Croushore is an associate professor of economics and Rigsby Fellow at the University of Richmond. Croushore served for fourteen years at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, twelve of which as the head of the macroeconomics section. He has taught previously at Penn State University, Temple University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, and Princeton University.