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About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Preface
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Economics: The Study of Choice
1.1
Start Up: Economics in the News
1.2
Defining Economics
1.3
The Field of Economics
1.4
The Economist’s Tool Kit
1.5
Review and Practice
2
Confronting Scarcity: Choices in Production
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2.1
Start Up: An Attempt to Produce Safer Air Travel
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2.2
Factors of Production
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2.3
The Production Possibilities Curve
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2.4
Applications of the Production Possibilities Model
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2.5
Review and Practice
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Demand and Supply
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3.1
Start Up: Crazy for Coffee
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3.2
Demand
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3.3
Supply
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3.4
Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium
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3.5
Review and Practice
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Applications of Demand and Supply
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4.1
Start Up: Better. Faster. Cheaper.
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4.2
Putting Demand and Supply to Work
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4.3
Government Intervention in Markets: Price Floors and Price Ceilings
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4.4
Government Intervention in Markets: Taxes
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4.5
Review and Practice
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Introduction to the Macroeconomy: Measuring the Economy’s Output
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5.1
Start Up: Your Uncertain Future
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5.2
Measuring Total Output: GDP and Its Components
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5.3
Real GDP, Economic Growth, and Business Cycles
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5.4
GDP and Economic Well-Being
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5.5
Review and Practice
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The Price Level and Inflation
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6.1
Start Up: College Is More Expensive Than Ever . . . Or Is It?
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6.2
Measuring Prices and Inflation
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6.3
The Causes of Inflation
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6.4
The Consequences of Inflation
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6.5
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Unemployment
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7.1
Start Up: This One Was Different . . . But Was That Better or Worse?
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7.2
Measuring Unemployment
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7.3
The Nature of Unemployment
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7.4
Policy Implications of Unemployment
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Review and Practice
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Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
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8.1
Start Up: The Great Warning
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8.2
Aggregate Demand
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8.3
Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply: The Long Run and the Short Run
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8.4
Recessionary and Inflationary Gaps and Long-Run Macroeconomic Equilibrium
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Economic Growth
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9.1
Start Up: How Important Is Economic Growth?
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9.2
The Significance of Economic Growth
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9.3
Growth and the Long-Run Aggregate Supply Curve
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9.4
A Recipe for Economic Growth
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Review and Practice
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The Nature and Creation of Money
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10.1
Start Up: Holy Mackerel—This Fish Story Is True!
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10.2
What Is Money?
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10.3
The Banking System and Money Creation
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10.4
The Federal Reserve System
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Financial Markets and the Economy
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11.1
Start Up: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
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11.2
The Functions of Financial Instruments
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11.3
The Bond and Foreign Exchange Markets
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Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium in the Money Market
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Monetary Policy and the Fed
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12.1
Start Up: The Fed Goes to War
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Monetary Policy in the United States
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12.3
Problems and Controversies of Monetary Policy
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12.4
The Trade-Off Between Inflation and Unemployment
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Government and Fiscal Policy
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13.1
Start Up: A Massive Stimulus
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Government and the Economy
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13.3
The Use of Fiscal Policy to Stabilize the Economy
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Fiscal Policy in Practice
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Review and Practice
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Consumption and the Aggregate Expenditures Model
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14.1
Start Up: Consumption Spending Plummets as the COVID-19 Recession Begins
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14.2
Determining the Level of Consumption
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The Aggregate Expenditures Model
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Aggregate Expenditures and Aggregate Demand
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Investment and Economic Activity
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15.1
Start Up: Jittery Firms Slash Investment as Great Recession Unfolds
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The Role and Nature of Investment
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Determinants of Investment
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Investment and the Economy
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Net Exports and International Finance
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16.1
Start Up: Currency Crises Shake the World
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16.2
The International Sector: An Introduction
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International Finance
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Exchange Rate Systems
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A Brief History of Macroeconomic Thought and Policy
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17.1
Start Up: Three Revolutions in Macroeconomic Thought
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The Great Depression and Keynesian Economics
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Keynesian Economics in the 1960s and 1970s
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Macroeconomics for the Twenty-First Century
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Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination
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18.1
Start Up: Occupy Wall Street; Change the World?
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18.2
Income Inequality
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18.3
The Economics of Poverty
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18.4
The Economics of Discrimination
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Graphs in Economics
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Graphs in Economics
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A.2
Nonlinear Relationships and Graphs Without Numbers
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Using Graphs and Charts to Show Values of Variables
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The Solow Model of Economic Growth
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Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth
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