Macroeconomics 9th By N. Gregory Mankiw

Macroeconomics 9th By N. Gregory Mankiw

Print ISBN: 9781464182891, 1464182892

eText ISBN: 9781319117030, 1319117031

By: N. Gregory Mankiw

Publisher: Worth Publishers

Print ISBN: 9781464182891, 1464182892

eText ISBN: 9781319117030, 1319117031

Edition: 9th

Copyright year: 2016

Mankiw’s Macroeconomics has been the number one book for the intermediate macro course since the publication of the first edition. It maintains that bestselling status by continually bringing the leading edge of macroeconomics theory, research, and policy to the classroom, explaining complex concepts with exceptional clarity. This new edition is no exception, with Greg Mankiw adding emerging macro topics and frontline empirical research studies, while improving the book’s already exemplary focus on teaching students to apply the analytical tools of macroeconomics to current events and policies. See what’s in the LaunchPad

Preface

An economist must be “mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher,

in some degree . . . as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes

as near the earth as a politician.” So remarked John Maynard Keynes,

the great British economist who, as much as anyone, could be called the father

of macroeconomics. No single statement summarizes better what it means to be

an economist.

As Keynes’s assessment suggests, students who aim to learn economics need

to draw on many disparate talents. The job of helping students find and develop

these talents falls to instructors and textbook authors. My goal for this textbook

is to make macroeconomics understandable, relevant, and (believe it or not) fun.

Those of us who have chosen to be professional macroeconomists have done so

because we are fascinated by the field. More important, we believe that the study

of macroeconomics can illuminate much about the world and that the lessons

learned, if properly applied, can make the world a better place. I hope this book

conveys not only our profession’s accumulated wisdom but also its enthusiasm

and sense of purpose.