Throughout Macroeconomics, authors Daron Acemoglu, David Laibson, and John List use real economic questions and data to help students learn about the world around them. Taking a fresh approach, the authors use the themes of optimization, equilibrium and empiricism to illustrate the power of simple economic ideas, and their ability to explain, predict, and improve what happens in the world. Each chapter begins with an empirical question that is later answered using data in the Evidence-Based Economics feature. As a result of the text's practical emphasis, students will learn to apply economic principles to guide the decisions they make in their own lives.

"I. Introduction to Economics

1. The Principles and Practice of Economics

2. Economic Methods and Economic Questions

3. Optimization: Doing the Best You Can

4. Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium

II. Introduction to Macroeconomics

5. The Wealth of Nations: Defining and Measuring Macroeconomic Aggregates

6. Aggregate Incomes

III. Long-Run Growth and Development

7. Economic Growth

8. Why Isn't the Whole World Developed?

IV. Equilibrium in the Macroeconomy

9. Employment and Unemployment

10. Credit Markets

11. The Monetary System

V. Short-Run Fluctuations and Macroeconomic Policy

12. Short-run Fluctuations

13. Countercyclical Macroeconomic Policy

VI. Macroeconomics in a Global Economy

14. Macroeconomics and International Trade

15. Open Economy Macroeconomics

Web Chapter 1. Financial Decision Making

Web Chapter 2. Economics of Life, Health, and the Environment

Web Chapter 3. Political Economy"
"John List, University of Chicago

David Laibson, Harvard University

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"