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| Preface | p. xvii |
| Introduction and Measurement | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 2 |
| What Is Macroeconomics? | p. 2 |
| Post-World War II U.S. Economic Performance | p. 3 |
| Central Questions in Macroeconomics | p. 9 |
| Conclusion | p. 12 |
| Measurement of Macroeconomic Variables | p. 13 |
| The National Income Accounts | p. 13 |
| Gross Domestic Product | ... MOREp. 14 |
| What GDP Is Not | p. 17 |
| National Income | p. 18 |
| Personal and Personal Disposable Income | p. 19 |
| Some National Income Accounting Identities | p. 21 |
| Measuring Price Changes: Real Versus Nominal Gross Domestic Product | p. 22 |
| The Consumer Price Index and the Producer Price Index | p. 25 |
| Measures of Cyclical Variation in Output | p. 26 |
| Upward Bias in the Consumer Price Index | p. 27 |
| Conclusion | p. 28 |
| Dating Business Cycles | p. 29 |
| Macroeconomic Models | p. 31 |
| Classical Macroeconomics (I): Equilibrium Output and Employment | p. 32 |
| The Starting Point | p. 32 |
| The Classical Revolution | p. 33 |
| Production | p. 34 |
| Employment | p. 35 |
| Equilibrium Output and Employment | p. 41 |
| Conclusion | p. 47 |
| Real Business Cycles: A First Look | p. 47 |
| Classical Macroeconomics (II): Money, Prices, and Interest | p. 49 |
| The Quantity Theory of Money | p. 49 |
| Money in Hyperinflations | p. 55 |
| The Classical Theory of the Interest Rate | p. 55 |
| Policy Implications of the Classical Equilibrium Model | p. 59 |
| Conclusion | p. 63 |
| Supply-Side Economics--A Modern Classical View | p. 64 |
| The Keynesian System (I): The Role of Aggregate Demand | p. 66 |
| The Problem of Unemployment | p. 66 |
| The Simple Keynesian Model: Conditions for Equilibrium Output | p. 69 |
| The Components of Aggregate Demand | p. 73 |
| Determining Equilibrium Income | p. 77 |
| Changes in Equilibrium Income | p. 80 |
| Fiscal Stabilization Policy | p. 85 |
| Conclusion | p. 86 |
| Fiscal Policy in Practice | p. 87 |
| Exports and Imports in the Simple Keynesian Model | p. 89 |
| The Keynesian System (II): Money, Interest, and Income | p. 93 |
| Money in the Keynesian System | p. 93 |
| Residential Construction and the Interest Rate | p. 96 |
| The IS-LM Curve Model | p. 104 |
| Conclusion | p. 127 |
| The Algebra of the IS-LM Model | p. 128 |
| The Keynesian System (III): Policy Effects in the IS-LM Model | p. 133 |
| Factors That Affect Equilibrium Income and the Interest Rate | p. 133 |
| The Relative Effectiveness of Monetary and Fiscal Policy | p. 139 |
| Conclusion | p. 148 |
| The Monetary--Fiscal Policy Mix: Some Historical Examples | p. 149 |
| Monetary and Fiscal Policy Multipliers in the IS--LM Curve Model | p. 151 |
| The Keynesian System (IV): Aggregate Supply and Demand | p. 155 |
| The Keynesian Aggregate Demand Curve | p. 156 |
| The Keynesian Aggregate Demand Curve Combined with the Classical Theory of Aggregate Supply | p. 161 |
| The Keynesian Contractual View of the Labor Market | p. 165 |
| Price and Quantity Adjustments in Great Britain, 1929-1936 | p. 167 |
| Labor Supply and Variability in the Money Wage | p. 172 |
| The Effects of Shifts in the Aggregate Supply Function | p. 177 |
| Severe Supply Disruption: The Case of the Former Soviet Republics | p. 184 |
| Conclusion: Keynes Versus the Classics | p. 185 |
| The Monetarist Counterrevolution | p. 190 |
| Introduction | p. 190 |
| The Reformulation of the Quantity Theory of Money | p. 192 |
| The Monetarist View of the Great Depression | p. 197 |
| Fiscal and Monetary Policy: Monetarists Versus Keynesians | p. 202 |
| Unstable Velocity and the Declining Influence of Monetarism | p. 209 |
| Conclusion | p. 210 |
| Output, Inflation, and Unemployment: Monetarist and Keynesian Views | p. 212 |
| The Natural Rate Theory | p. 212 |
| Monetary Policy, Output, and Inflation: A Monetarist View | p. 215 |
| A Keynesian View of the Output--Inflation Trade-Off | p. 221 |
| Evolution of the Natural Rate Concept | p. 227 |
| Conclusion | p. 230 |
| New Classical Economics | p. 232 |
| The New Classical Attack | p. 232 |
| A Broader View of the New Classical Position | p. 241 |
| The Keynesian Countercritique | p. 243 |
| The New Classical Economics and the Disinflation of the 1980s | p. 244 |
| Conclusion | p. 248 |
| The Great Depression: New Classical Views | p. 249 |
| Real Business Cycle Theory and the New Keynesian Economics | p. 252 |
| Real Business Cycle Models | p. 252 |
| Labor Market Flows | p. 259 |
| New Keynesian Economics | p. 260 |
| Are Prices Sticky? | p. 263 |
| Conclusion | p. 267 |
| Macroeconomic Models: A Summary | p. 269 |
| Theoretical Issues | p. 269 |
| Policy Issues | p. 273 |
| Extensions of the Models | p. 277 |
| Consumption and Investment | p. 278 |
| Consumption | p. 278 |
| Declining U.S. Personal Saving | p. 289 |
| Investment Spending | p. 294 |
| Inventories in the Most Recent Recession | p. 306 |
| Conclusion | p. 306 |
| Money Demand | p. 308 |
| The Definition of Money | p. 310 |
| The Theory of the Transactions Demand for Money | p. 311 |
| Extensions of Keynes's Theory of the Demand for Money as a Store of Wealth | p. 320 |
| Instability of Money Demand | p. 324 |
| Conclusion | p. 327 |
| The Money Supply Process | p. 329 |
| The Federal Reserve System | p. 329 |
| Bank Reserves and Bank Deposits | p. 333 |
| Who Controls the Money Stock? | p. 340 |
| The Money Supply During the Great Depression | p. 344 |
| Conclusion | p. 345 |
| Long- and Intermediate-Term Economic Growth | p. 347 |
| Long-Run Steady-State Growth | p. 348 |
| Accounting for U.S. Economic Growth | p. 355 |
| Determinants of Output Growth in Intermediate-Run Periods | p. 358 |
| Growth and Productivity Slowdown in Other Industrialized Economies | p. 361 |
| The Laffer Curve | p. 368 |
| Growth Policies in the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton Administrations | p. 371 |
| Conclusion | p. 373 |
| Economic Policy | p. 377 |
| Fiscal Policy | p. 378 |
| The Goals of Macroeconomic Policy | p. 378 |
| The Goals of Macroeconomic Policymakers | p. 379 |
| Rational Expectations and the Partisan Theory | p. 383 |
| The Federal Budget | p. 383 |
| Budget Deficits in Seven Industrial Countries | p. 386 |
| The Economy and the Federal Budget: The Concept of Automatic Fiscal Stabilizers | p. 386 |
| Keynesian Objections to Balanced-Budget Rules | p. 390 |
| What About the Deficit? | p. 392 |
| Conclusion | p. 398 |
| Ricardian Equivalence | p. 399 |
| Monetary Policy | p. 403 |
| The Monetary Policymaking Process | p. 403 |
| Competing Strategies for Monetary Policy: Targeting Monetary Aggregates or Interest Rates | p. 404 |
| Central Bank Independence and Economic Performance | p. 405 |
| Implications of Intermediate Targeting on a Monetary Aggregate | p. 408 |
| Implications of Targeting the Interest Rate | p. 412 |
| Money Stock Versus Interest Rate Targets | p. 415 |
| The Evolution of Federal Reserve Strategy | p. 417 |
| Changes in Central Bank Institutions: Recent International Experience | p. 419 |
| Inflation Targeting in Practice: The New Zealand Experience | p. 421 |
| Conclusion | p. 422 |
| Open Economy Macroeconomics | p. 423 |
| Exchange Rates and the International Monetary System | p. 424 |
| The U.S. Balance of Payments Accounts | p. 424 |
| Exchange Rates and the Market for Foreign Exchange | p. 427 |
| The Current Exchange Rate System | p. 434 |
| Advantages of Exchange Rate Flexibility | p. 437 |
| Experience with Floating Exchange Rates | p. 442 |
| Fixed Versus Flexible Exchange Rates | p. 447 |
| Conclusion | p. 450 |
| The European Monetary System | p. 451 |
| Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the Open Economy | p. 453 |
| The Mundell-Fleming Model | p. 453 |
| The Case of Imperfect Capital Mobility | p. 456 |
| The Case of Perfect Capital Mobility | p. 462 |
| The Saving--Investment Correlation Puzzle | p. 468 |
| Conclusion | p. 468 |
| Glossary | p. 471 |
| Index | p. 475 |
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