Principles of Macroeconomics engages students by emphasizing the central idea of economics throughout: that people make purposeful choices with scarce resources and interact with other people when they make these choices. The authors bring to bear recent and extensive classroom-based experiences to select real-world examples of how markets work; provide clear explanations of why markets are efficient when the incentives are right and inefficient when the incentives are wrong; and outline examples of economic choices students actually face. The authors stress long-run fundamentals, but they also discuss current public policy issues when the short run matters.

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