Introduction to Macroeconomics is a fundamental course that introduces students to the basic principles and concepts of macroeconomics. It provides a comprehensive understanding of the functioning and structure of the economy as a whole, and how the macroeconomic variables such as gross domestic product (GDP), inflation, unemployment, and international trade affect the overall performance of the economy. The course covers key macroeconomic models, policies, and theories that aid in analyzing and explaining the economic behavior of households, businesses, and governments. The first paragraph of the course introduces and defines the subject matter of macroeconomics, provides a brief overview of its history, and highlights its significance in understanding the economy. It focuses on aggregate demand, aggregate supply, inflation, and unemployment, and how they interact to determine the overall economic performance. The second paragraph highlights the various macroeconomic models such as Classical, Keynesian, and Monetarist theories and how they relate to the economy. Finally, it discusses the role of economic policies, including fiscal and monetary policies, in regulating and stabilizing macroeconomic variables, and the principles that guide policy implementation. The course is essential for students pursuing economics or related fields, providing a strong foundation for understanding and analyzing macroeconomic phenomena in real-world situations.

This book presents an introduction to computational macroeconomics, using a new approach to the study of dynamic macroeconomic models. It solves a variety of models in discrete time numerically, using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet as a computer tool. The solved models include dynamic macroeconomic models with rational expectations, both non-microfounded and microfounded, constituting a novel approach that facilitates the learning and use of dynamic general equilibrium models, which have now become the principal tool for macroeconomic analysis. Spreadsheets are widely known and relatively easy to use, meaning that the computer skills needed to work with dynamic general equilibrium models are affordable for undergraduate students in Advanced Macroeconomics courses.

This textbook is a policy-based introduction to macroeconomics designed for economics students and non-specialists alike, the explanation being verbal and geometric with little recourse to formal mathematics. This fourth edition has been fully revised and updated and contains a new chapter on international trade, comparative advantage and protectionism. There are further new chapters on the IS-LM model, and recent developments in progress towards European Monetary Union are also incorporated. The work aims to appeal to business, MBA and management, and political science students who require a policy-based perspective.

The main purpose of Lectures on Macroeconomics is to characterize and explain fluctuations in output, unemployment and movement in prices. Lectures on Macroeconomics provides the first comprehensive description and evaluation of macroeconomic theory in many years. While the authors' perspective is broad, they clearly state their assessment of what is important and what is not as they present the essence of macroeconomic theory today.The main purpose of Lectures on Macroeconomics is to characterize and explain fluctuations in output, unemployment and movement in prices. The most important fact of modern economic history is persistent long term growth, but as the book makes clear, this growth is far from steady. The authors analyze and explore these fluctuations. Topics include consumption and investment; the Overlapping Generations Model; money; multiple equilibria, bubbles, and stability; the role of nominal rigidities; competitive equilibrium business cycles, nominal rigidities and economic fluctuations, goods, labor and credit markets; and monetary and fiscal policy issues. Each of chapters 2 through 9 discusses models appropriate to the topic. Chapter 10 then draws on the previous chapters, asks which models are the workhorses of macroeconomics, and sets the models out in convenient form. A concluding chapter analyzes the goals of economic policy, monetary policy, fiscal policy, and dynamic inconsistency. Written as a text for graduate students with some background in macroeconomics, statistics, and econometrics, Lectures on Macroeconomics also presents topics in a self contained way that makes it a suitable reference for professional economists.

Updated and revised, this fifth edition incorporates recent developments in the environment in which agriculture operates. Issues that have gained prominence since the previous edition (2014) include climate change and agriculture's mitigating role, concern with animal welfare, the social contributions that agriculture makes, risks associated with globalization, and rising concern over sustainability. Important for UK and EU readers are the adjustments needed now that the UK is no longer a member of the European Union and the nature of the national policies developed to replace the EU's Common Agricultural Policy. Containing all the major economic principles with agriculture-specific examples, An Introduction to Economics, 5th Edition provides a rounded and up-to-date introduction to the subject. The inclusion of updated chapter-focused exercises, essay questions and suggestions for further reading make this textbook an invaluable learning tool.