Description :
Whereas "Volume One: Microeconomics" dealt with the optimizing individual, "Volume Two: Macroeconomics" explains the factors that affect the economy of an entire country and, indeed, the planet. It explores the two big concerns of macroeconomics: how economies grow and why economies collapse. It also illustrates the basics of the labour market and unemployment, inflation and debt, what the GDP is and what it measures, and the influence of government, trade, and technology on the economy. Along the way it covers the economics of global poverty, climate change, and the business cycle. In short, if any of these topics have cropped up in a news story and caused you to wish you grasped the underlying basics, this book is for you. And while walking you through an entire introductory macroeconomics course, its cartoon characters - with cameos from Nobel Prize - winning economists such as Milton Friedman and Paul Krugman - take the sting out of the subject.

CONTENTS:
Chapter 1 Introduction page 3;
Chapter 2 uneployment, page 17;
Chapter 3 Money, page 31;
Chapter 4 Inflation, page 45;
Chapter 5 Gross Domestic Product (GDP), page 59;
Chapter 6 The Role of Government, page 73;
Chapter 7 Trade and Technology, page 89;
Chapter 8 The Classical View of Trade, page 99;
Chapter 9 Complications, page 111;
Chapter 10 Foreign Aid, page 125;
Chapter 11 Forelgn Currencies, page 139;
Chapter 12 The End of the Business Cycle? Page 153;
Chapter 13 The End of Poverty? Page 167;
Chapter 14 The End of Planet Earth? Page 179;
Chapter 15 The End of Youth? Page 193;
Chapter 16 The End, page 207;
Glossary page 219.