Macroeconomics, Canadian Edition, 6th edition

Published by Pearson Canada (February 12, 2020) © 2021

  • Stephen D. Williamson Western University
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This text follows a modern approach to macroeconomics by building macroeconomic models from microeconomic principles. As such, it is consistent with the way that macroeconomic research is conducted today. This approach has three advantages. First, it allows deeper insights into economic growth processes and business cycles, the key topics in macroeconomics. Second, an emphasis on microeconomic foundations better integrates the study of macroeconomics with approaches that students learn in microeconomics courses and in economics field courses. Learning in macroeconomics and microeconomics thus becomes mutually reinforcing, and students learn more. Third, in following an approach to macroeconomics that is consistent with current macroeconomic research, students will be better prepared for advanced study in economics.

  1. Introduction
  2. Measurement
  3. Business Cycle Measurement 
  4. Consumer and Firm Behaviour: The Work-Leisure Decision and Profit Maximization
  5. A Closed-Economy One-Period Macroeconomic Model
  6. Search and Unemployment
  7. Economic Growth: Malthus and Solow
  8. Income Disparity Among Countries and Endogenous Growth 
  9. A Two-Period Model: The Consumption-Savings Decision and Credit Markets
  10. Credit Market Imperfections: Credit Frictions, Financial Crises, and Social Security
  11. A Real Intertemporal Model with Investment 
  12. A Monetary Intertemporal Model: Money, Banking, Prices, and Monetary Policy 
  13. Business Cycles
  14. Inflation: Phillips Curves and Neo-Fisherism
  15. International Trade in Goods and Assets
  16. Money in the Open Economy 
  17. Money and Inflation: A Deeper Look
  18. Financial Intermediation and Banking

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