Introduction 1 Part 1: Getting Started with Macroeconomics 5 CHAPTER 1: Discovering Why Macroeconomics Is a Big Deal 7 CHAPTER 2: Looking at Key Questions and Concepts 27 CHAPTER 3: The Short Run and the Long Run 43 Part 2: Measuring the Things That Matter 59 CHAPTER 4: Adding Up Gross Domestic Product 61 CHAPTER 5: Facing the Fact of Increasing Prices: Inflation 81 CHAPTER 6: Thinking About Interest Rates 103 CHAPTER 7: Unemployment: Wasting Talent and Productivity 125 Part 3: The Long-Run Macro Economy 145 CHAPTER 8: GDP Growth in the Long Run 147 CHAPTER 9: Long-Run Prices and Interest Rates 163 Part 4: Modeling the Short-Run Macro Economy 181 CHAPTER 10: Working Out a Country's Economic Demand 183 CHAPTER 11: Determining How Much Stuff an Economy Produces 201 CHAPTER 12: Using the AD-AS Model to Analyze Economic Shocks 217 Part 5: Examining Macroeconomic Policy 239 CHAPTER 13: Macroeconomic Policies for the Long Run 241 CHAPTER 14: Monetary Policy and the Short-Run Economy 257 CHAPTER 15: Fiscal Policy: Balancing the Books -- Perhaps 275 CHAPTER 16: Unemployment and Inflation: The Phillips Curve 295 Part 6: Understanding the Financial Crisis 315 CHAPTER 17: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Financial System 317 CHAPTER 18: Learning from the 2007-08 Financial Crisis 335 Part 7: The Part of Tens 355 CHAPTER 19: Getting to Know Ten Great Macroeconomists 357 CHAPTER 20: Ten Top Tips to Take Away 367 Index 375.