Principles of macroeconomics / by N. Gregory Mankiw

Includes glossary and index.

INTRODUCTION -- Ten principles of economics -- Thinking likes an economist -- Interdependence and the gains from trade -- HOW MARKET WORKS -- The market forces of supply and demand -- Elasticity and its application -- Supply demand and government policies -- MARKETS AND WELFARE -- Consumers, the costs of taxation, -- Application: international trade, THE DATA OF MACROECONOMICS -- Measuring a nation's income -- Measuring the cost of living -- THE REAL ECONOMY IN THE LONG RUN -- Production and growth -- Saving investment and the financial system -- The basic tools of finance -- Unemployment -- MONEY AND PRICES IN THE LONG RUN - The monetary system -- Money growth and inflation -- THE MACROECONOMICS OF OPEN ECONOMIES -- Open-Economy Macroeconomics: Basic concepts -- A Macroeconomic theory of the open economy SHORT-RUN ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS - Aggregate Demand and Aggregate supply -- The influence of monetary and fiscal policy on aggregate demand -- The short-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment -- FINAL THOUGHTS -- Six debates over macroeconomic policy