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What’s Inside
Multiple-choice, true/false, and problem-solving questions
Step-by-step rationales for correct and incorrect answers
Coverage of all major macroeconomic concepts
Updated content reflecting today’s global economy
Chapter Contents (Macroeconomics, 22nd Edition)
:
1. Limits, Alternatives, and Choices
1A. Graphs and Their Meanings
2. The Market System and the Circular Flow
3. Demand, Supply, and Market Equilibrium
3A. Appendix: Additional Examples of Supply and Demand
4. Market Failures Caused by Externalities and Asymmetric Information
5. Public Goods, Public Choice, and Government Failure
6. An Introduction to Macroeconomics
7. Measuring Domestic Output and National Income
8. Economic Growth
9. Business Cycles, Unemployment, and Inflation
10. Basic Macroeconomic Relationships
11. The Aggregate Expenditures Model
12. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
12A. The Relationship of the AD Curve to the Aggregate Expenditures Model
13. Fiscal Policy, Deficits, and Debt
14. Money, Banking, and Financial Institutions
15. Money Creation
16. Interest Rates and Monetary Policy
17. Financial Economics
18. Extending the Analysis of Aggregate Supply
19. Current Issues in Macro Theory and Policy
,20. International Trade
21. The Balance of Payments, Exchange Rates, and Trade Deficits
21A. Previous International Exchange-Rate Systems
22. The Economics of Developing Countries
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) An economic model is an ideal or utopian type of economy that society should strive to
obtain through economic policy.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) Because economic generalizations are simplifications from reality, they are impractical
and useless.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) If economic theories are solidly based on relevant facts, then appropriate economic policy
becomes obvious and uncontroversial.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) Normative statements are expressions of facts.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) Positive statements are expressions of value judgments.
⊚ true
⊚ false
6) Macroeconomics explains the behavior of individual households and business firms;
microeconomics is concerned with the behavior of aggregates or the economy as a whole.
⊚ true
, ⊚ false
7) Purposeful behavior implies that everyone will make identical choices.