Table of Contents

Part 1 Issues in Macroeconomics   
Chapter 1 Macroeconomics: The Birds-Eye View of the Economy
Chapter 2 Measuring economic activity: Gross Domestic Product and Unemployment                     
Chapter 3 Measuring the Price Level and Inflation                           
Chapter 4 Saving, Investment and Wealth                           
Chapter 5 Wages, Employment and the Labour Market                  

Part 2 Short-run Macroeconomics: the analysis of the business cycle                         
Chapter 6 Spending and output in the short run               
Chapter 7 Fiscal policy                   
Chapter 8 Money, prices and the Reserve Bank                 
Chapter 9 The Reserve bank and the economy                   
Chapter 10 The aggregate demand-aggregate supply model                       
Chapter 11 Macroeconomic policy                           

Part 3 Long-run Macroeconomics: the analysis of economic growth
Chapter 12 The economy in the long run: an introduction to economic growth                   
Chapter 13 The production function approach to understanding growth               
Chapter 14 Saving, capital formation and comparative economic growth                                

Part 4 Open Economy Macroeconomics
Chapter 15 International Trade                 
Chapter 16 Exchange rates and the open economy                         
Chapter 17 The balance Payments: net exports and international capital flows                   
Chapter 18 Macroeconomics: What have we learned                      

 Part 5 Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 19 Macroeconomics: What have we learned?

About the Author

2022 Nobel Prize winner, Professor Bernanke received his B.A.  in economics from Harvard University in 1975 and his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1979. He taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business from 1979 to 1985 and moved to Princeton University in 1985, where he was named the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs where he served as chair of the Economics Department. Professor Bernanke is currently a Distinguished Fellow in Residence with the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution.Professor Bernanke was sworn in on February 1, 2006, as chair and a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; his second term expired January 31, 2014. Professor Bernanke also served as chair of the Federal Open Market Committee,  the  Feds principal monetary policymaking body.  Professor Bernanke was also chair of the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers from June 2005 to January 2006. Professor Bernankes intermediate textbook, with Andrew Abel and Dean Croushore, Macroeconomics, 9th Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2017),  is a best-seller in its field.  He has authored numerous scholarly publications in macroeconomics, macroeconomic history, and finance.  He has done significant research on the causes of the Great Depression, the role of financial markets and institutions in the business cycle, and measurement of the effects of monetary policy on the economy.Professor Bernanke has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Sloan Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as the director of the Monetary Economics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and as a member of the NBERs Business Cycle Dating Committee. From 2001 to 2004 he served as editor of the American Economic Review, and as president of the American Economic Association in 2019.  Professor Bernankes work with civic and professional groups includes having served two terms as a member of the Montgomery Township (New Jersey) Board of Education.In 2022, Dr. Bernanke, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in Stockholm, Sweden.  He was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2022 for his work on bank runs and measures to prevent them. He changed our understanding of economic downturns. Dr. Bernankes research showed how bank runs and failed monetary policy prolonged the Great Depression (1929-1939).  Bernankes work was invaluable during the 2008 global financial crisis when, as Fed Chair, he applied the lessons from the great depression and pioneered the emergency lending programs the central banks used to address the crisis.