This South African edition of Macroeconomics is essential reading for all students taking introductory economics modules on undergraduate courses throughout South Africa. It is also ideal for use with the macroeconomics component of MBA courses. The text contains updated case studies, set against a South African context to illustrate how the principles of economics relate to your life. The news articles are based on news events in South Africa along with questions to help you apply your knowledge and to build your understanding. This text is designed to give you the confidence and ability to think like an economist.

This South African edition of Microeconomics is essential reading for all students taking introductory economics modules on undergraduate courses throughout South Africa. It is also ideal for use with the microeconomics component of MBA courses. The text contains updated case studies, set against a South African context to illustrate how the principles of economics relate to your life. The news articles are based on news events in South Africa along with questions to help you apply your knowledge and to build your understanding. This text is designed to give you the confidence and ability to think like an economist.

Now you can master the principles of macroeconomics with the help of the most popular, widely-used economics textbook by students worldwide -- Mankiw's PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS, 8E. With its clear and engaging writing style, this book emphasizes only the material that will help you better understand the world in which you live, will make you a more astute participant in the economy, and will give you a better understanding of both the potential and limits of economic policy. The latest relevant examples bring macroeconomic principles to life. Acclaimed text author N. Gregory Mankiw explains, "I have tried to put myself in the position of someone seeing economics for the first time. My goal is to emphasize the material that students should and do find interesting about the study of the economy." Powerful student-focused digital resources are available in leading MindTap and Aplia digital learning and homework solutions that reinforce the principles presented in this edition.

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The new European edition of Mankiw's bestselling and highly readable text communicates the theories and models of macroeconomics in a concise and accessible way, with real-world examples, discussions and case studies. The text is fully updated with extensive coverage of the global financial crisis and in particular its impact on European economies.

This dedicated South African edition of Prof. N. Gregory Mankiw and Prof. Mark P. Taylor's Economics combines up-to-date South African content and examples with a robust conceptual understanding of the subject using contemporary approaches to theory. The edition retains the features which have made the title so popular with students and instructors, including: The classic ten principles approach to economics - introduced in Chapter One and then referred to throughout the book designed to help build a framework for understanding. A rigorous emphasis throughout on `thinking like an economist' - adopting the tools, methods and concepts economists use in addressing problems and issues. The main body of the text has been expertly tailored to South African students, encouraging them to apply the information and data supplied to their own environment and experiences.

In "Monetary Policy, " leading monetary economists discuss applied aspects of monetary policy and offer practical new research on the timing, magnitude, and channels of central banking actions.
Some of the papers in this volume evaluate a variety of policy rules based on monetary aggregates, nominal income, commodity prices, and other economic variables. Others analyze price behavior and inflation, particularly the short-run behavior of prices. Still others examine the monetary transmission mechanism--the channel through which the central bank's actions affect spending on goods and services--with a special focus on the reduction in bank lending that must accompany a reduction in reserves.
This new research will be of special interest to central bankers and academic economists.

Dichtern mag das Schreiben an sich Freude bereiten, Verfasser von Lehrbuchern ziehen ihre Befriedigung daraus, dass ihre Arbeit gelesen, verstanden und von den Studenten geschatzt wird. Ich habe mich daher uber die Aufnahme der ersten Auflage dieses Buches sehr gefreut. An mehr als 350 Hochschulen in 27 Landern wurde es in Lehrveranstaltungen eingesetzt. Die Reaktion der Studenten, wie sie sich aus der Bewertung von Lehrver anstaltungen sowie aus Briefen an mich ersehen lasst, war so uberwaltigend, wie ich es mir nur wunschen konnte. In der ersten Auflage habe ich versucht, den Weg zur Vermittlung makrookonomischen Wissens neu zu definieren - oder zumindest neu zu weisen. Mit dieser zweiten Auflage habe ich versucht, das Buch unter Bewahrung seiner Besonderheiten weiter zu verbessern. Es unterscheidet sich von denen, die ich als Student verwendet habe, insbesondere in vier Punkten. Erstens versuche ich, ein ausgewogenes Verhaltnis zwischen kurz- und langfristiger Makrookonomik zu erreichen. In makrookonomischen Veranstaltungen wird immer die Theorie kurzfristiger wirtschaftlicher Schwankungen vorgestellt, weil sie die Basis fur das Verstehen der meisten geld-und fiskalpolitischen Diskussionen liefert. Sollen Studenten jedoch wirklich lernen, die lmplikationen wirtschaftspolitischer Massnahmen zu verstehen, dann mussen Lehrveranstaltungen auch langfristigen Fragen breite Aufmerksamkeit schenken, unter anderem dem Wirtschaftswachstum, der naturlichen Arbeitslosenquote, anhaltender Inflation und der Staatsverschuldung. Als ob wir einen Hinweis benotigt hatten, haben uns die letzten Jahre gezeigt, dass es wichtig ist, die Konsequenzen der Wirtschaftspolitik bei unterschiedlichen Zeithorizonten zu begreifen: jede intelligente Diskussion der anhaltenden Haushaltsdefizite setzt eine ausgewogene Berucksichtigung von kurz- und langfristigen Aspekten voraus."

Warum schreibt man ein Lehrbuch? Diese Frage wurde mir wahrend der drei Jahre, in denen ich an diesem Buch gearbeitet habe, immer wieder gestellt. Manchmal, wenn ich mich durch die Berge von Hinweisen durcharbeitete, die ich von Kollegen und Lektoren bekommen hatte, fragte ich mich das selbst. Meine Antwort war immer die gleiche: Obwohl es bereits eine Reihe guter Lehrbucher zur Makrookonomik gibt, stellte ich mir ein Buch vor, das ganz anders war und - wie ich glaubte - besser. Nachdem ich nun soviel Zeit in dieses Buch investiert habe, bin ich nicht objektiv genug, urn zu beurteilen, ob es wirklich besser ist. Das mussen andere tun. Ohne zu zogem kann ich aber sagen, daB es anders ist. Obwohl der Ansatz, dem ich in diesem Buch folge, in einigen Aspekten dem traditionellen Vorgehen entspricht, solI er in anderen den Weg zur Vermittlung makrookonomischen Wissens neu definieren - oder zumindest neu weisen.

This paper surveys the literature on the macroeconomic effects of government debt. It begins by discussing the data on debt and deficits, including the historical time series, measurement issues, and projections of future fiscal policy. The paper then presents the conventional theory of government debt, which emphasizes aggregate demand in the short run and crowding out in the long run. It next examines the theoretical and empirical debate over the theory of debt neutrality called Ricardian equivalence. Finally, the paper considers the various normative perspectives about how the government should use its ability to borrow.

These two volumes bring together a set of important essays that represent a "new Keynesian" perspective in economics today. This recent work shows how the Keynesian approach to economic fluctuations can be supported by rigorous microeconomic models of economic behavior. The essays are grouped in seven parts that cover costly price adjustment, staggering of wages and prices, imperfect competition, coordination failures, and the markets for labor, credit, and goods. An overall introduction, brief introductions to each of the parts, and a bibliography of additional papers in the field round out this valuable collection.Volume 1 focuses on how friction in price setting at the microeconomic level leads to nominal rigidity at the macroeconomic level, and on the macroeconomic consequences of imperfect competition, including aggregate demand externalities and multipliers. Volume 2 addresses recent research on non-Walrasian features of the labor, credit, and goods markets.N. Gregory Mankiw is Professor of Economics at Harvard University. David Romer is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley.Contributors: George A Akerlof. Costas Azariadis. Laurence Ball. Ben S. Bernanke. Mark Bits. Olivier J. Blanchard. Alan S. Blinder. John Bryant. Andrew S. Caplin. Dennis W. Carlton. Stephen G. Cecchetti. Russell Cooper. Peter A. Diamond. Gary Fethke. Stanley Fischer. Robert E. Hall. Oliver Hart. Andrew John. Nobuhiro Kiyotaki. Alan B. Krueger. David M. Lilien. Ian M. McDonald. N. David Mankiw. Arthur M. Okun. Andres Policano. David Romer. Julio J. Rotemberg. Garth Saloner. Carl Shapiro. Andrei Shleifer. Robert M. Solow. Daniel F. Spulber. Joseph E. Stiglitz. Lawrence H. Summers. John Taylor. Andrew Weiss. Michael Woodford. Janet L. Yellen.

These two volumes bring together a set of important essays that represent a "new Keynesian" perspective in economics today. This recent work shows how the Keynesian approach to economic fluctuations can be supported by rigorous microeconomic models of economic behavior. The essays are grouped in seven parts that cover costly price adjustment, staggering of wages and prices, imperfect competition, coordination failures, and the markets for labor, credit, and goods. An overall introduction, brief introductions to each of the parts, and a bibliography of additional papers in the field round out this valuable collection.Volume 1 focuses on how friction in price setting at the microeconomic level leads to nominal rigidity at the macroeconomic level, and on the macroeconomic consequences of imperfect competition, including aggregate demand externalities and multipliers. Volume 2 addresses recent research on non-Walrasian features of the labor, credit, and goods markets.N. Gregory Mankiw is Professor of Economics at Harvard University. David Romer is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley.Contributors: George A Akerlof. Costas Azariadis. Laurence Ball. Ben S. Bernanke. Mark Bits. Olivier J. Blanchard. Alan S. Blinder. John Bryant. Andrew S. Caplin. Dennis W. Carlton. Stephen G. Cecchetti. Russell Cooper. Peter A. Diamond. Gary Fethke. Stanley Fischer. Robert E. Hall. Oliver Hart. Andrew John. Nobuhiro Kiyotaki. Alan B. Krueger. David M. Lilien. Ian M. McDonald. N. David Mankiw. Arthur M. Okun. Andres Policano. David Romer. Julio J. Rotemberg. Garth Saloner. Carl Shapiro. Andrei Shleifer. Robert M. Solow. Daniel F. Spulber. Joseph E. Stiglitz. Lawrence H. Summers. John Taylor. Andrew Weiss. Michael Woodford. Janet L. Yellen.

David R. Hakes (University of Northern Iowa) has prepared a study guide that will enhance student success. Each chapter of the study guide includes learning objectives, a description of the chapter's context and purpose, a chapter review, key terms and definitions, advanced critical-thinking questions, and helpful hints for understanding difficult concepts. Students can develop their understanding of the material by doing the practice problems and answering the short-answer questions. They can then assess their mastery of the key concepts with the self-test, which includes true/false and multiple-choice questions.

¿Por qué debería usted estudiar economía? La razón es sencilla: le ayudará a comprender el mundo en que vive. La economía lo transformará en un participante experto. A medida que avanza en su vida, tomará diversas decisiones que se relacionan con la materia. Mientras estudia, decidirá cuántos años dedicará a su carrera; una vez que acepte un empleo, decidirá cuánto debe gastar, cuánto ahorrar y en qué invertir sus ingresos; algún día se encontrará al frente de un pequeño negocio o de una gran empresa y decidirá los precios que debe asignar a sus productos. Asimismo, la economía le aportará mayor comprensión tanto del potencial como de los límites de la política económica. ¿Qué sabemos sobre política monetaria convencional y no convencional en América Latina? ¿Cuáles son los efectos del libre comercio con otros países? ¿Cuál es la mejor forma de proteger el ambiente? Como innovación clave en esta edición, y con la finalidad de abordar el estudio de la economía en un contexto más cercano a la realidad, se incluyen excelentes casos y aplicaciones para América Latina.