Foundations of Macroeconomics plus MyEconLab plus eBook 1-semester Student Access Kit

Economics is a subject you learn by doing. Foundations of Macroeconomics breaks the mold of a traditional text and becomes a practice-oriented learning system. Each chapter uses a Checklist to focus students’ attention on the most important key concepts. A discrete section introduces each of these core concepts and is immediately followed by a Checkpoint, a full page of practice that applies the concept. The result is a patient, confidence-building approach that prepares students to use economics in their lives, regardless of what their future career will be. Many instructors turn to online assessment in MyEconLab as a way to encourage practice without needing to grade homework by hand. Bade and Parkin have written online versions of their Checkpoints and end-of-chapter problems in MyEconLab so that there is complete synchronicity between the content online and in the text. Preview online! An interactive tour of Foundations of Macroeconomics, Fourth Edition, is available here.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Introduction Chapter 1 Getting Started Chapter 2 The U.S. and Global Economies Chapter 3 The Economic Problem Chapter 4 Demand and Supply Part 2 Monitoring the Macroeconomy Chapter 5 GDP and the Standard of Living Chapter 6 The CPI and the Cost of Living Chapter 7 Jobs and Unemployment Part 3 The Real Economy Chapter 8 Potential GDP and the Natural Unemployment Rate Chapter 9 Economic Growth Chapter 10 Investment, Saving, and the Real Interest Rate Part 4 The Money Economy Chapter 11 The Monetary System Chapter 12 Money, Interest, and Inflation Part 5 Economic Fluctuations Chapter 13 AS-AD and the Business Cycle Chapter 14 Aggregate Expenditure Chapter 15 The Short-Run Policy Tradeoff Part 6 Macroeconomic Policy Chapter 16 Fiscal Policy Chapter 17 Monetary Policy Part 7 The Global Economy Chapter 18 International Finance Chapter 19 Global Markets in Action

About the Author :
Robin Bade was an undergraduate at the University of Queensland, Australia, where she earned degrees in mathematics and economics. After a spell teaching high school math and physics, she enrolled in the PhD program at the Australian National University, from which she graduated in 1970. She has held faculty appointments at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, at Bond University in Australia, and at the Universities of Manitoba, Toronto, and Western Ontario in Canada. Her research on international capital flows appeared in the International Economic Review and the Economic Record. Robin first taught the principles of economics course in 1970 and has taught it (alongside intermediate macroeconomics and international trade and finance) most years since then. She developed many of the ideas found in this text while conducting tutorials with her students at the University of Western Ontario. Michael Parkin studied economics in England and began his university teaching career immediately after graduating with a BA from the University of Leicester. He learned the subject on the job at the University of Essex, England’s most exciting new university of the 9160s, and at the age of 30 became one of the youngest full professors. He is a past president of the Canadian Economics Association and has served on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and the Journal of Monetary Economics. His research on macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international economics has resulted in more than 160 publications in journals and edited volumes, including the American Economic Review, theJournal of Political Economy, theReview of Economic Studies, theJournal of Monetary Economics, and theJournal of Money, Credit, and Banking. He is the author of the best-selling Addison-Wesley textbook, Economics. Robin and Michael are a wife-and-husband duo. Their most notable joint research created the Bade-Parkin Index of central bank independence and spawned a vast amount of research on that topic. They don’t claim credit for the independence of the new European Central Bank, but its constitution and the movement toward greater independence of central banks around the world were aided by their pioneering work. They are dedicated to the challenge of explaining economics ever more clearly to an ever-growing body of students.