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Part I: INTRODUCTION

1. Ten Principles of Economics

2. Thinking Like an Economist

3. Interdependence and the Gains from Trade

Part II: HOW MARKETS WORK

4. The Market Forces of Supply and Demand

5. Elasticity and Its Application

6. Supply, Demand, and Government Policies

Part III: MARKETS AND WELFARE

7. Consumers, Producers, and the Efficiency of Markets

8. Application: The Costs of Taxation

9. Application: International Trade

Part IV: THE DATA OF MACROECONOMICS

10. Measuring a Nation’s Income

11. Measuring the Cost of Living

Part V: THE REAL ECONOMY IN THE LONG RUN

12. Production and Growth

13. Saving, Investment, and the Financial System

14. The Basic Tools of Finance

15. Unemployment and Its Natural Rate

Part VI: MONEY AND PRICES IN THE LONG RUN

16. The Monetary System

17. Money Growth and Inflation

Part VII: THE MACROECONOMICS OF OPEN ECONOMICS

18. Open-Economy Macroeconomics: Basic Concepts

19. A Macroeconomic Theory of the Open Economy

Part VIII: SHORT-RUN ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS

20. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply

21. The Influence of Monetary and Fiscal Policy on Aggregate Demand

22. The Short-Run Tradeoff between Inflation and Unemployment

Part IX: FINAL THOUGHTS

23. Six Debates over Macroeconomic Policy

Glossary

Index N. Gregory Mankiw

N. Gregory Mankiw is the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University.