A concise guide to macroeconomics : what managers, executives, and students need to know /
| Основен автор: | Moss, David A., 1964- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Boston, Mass. :
Harvard Business School Press,
c2007.
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| Предмети: | |
| Онлайн достъп: |
Table of contents only Book jacket |
Съдържание:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- pt. 1.
- Understanding the macro economy
- 1.
- Output
- Measuring national output
- Exchange of output across countries
- What makes output go up and down?
- Isn't wealth more important than output?
- 2.
- Money
- Money and its effect on interest rates, exchange rates, and inflation
- Nominal versus real
- Money and banking
- The
- art and science of central banking
- 3.
- Expectations
- Expectations and inflation
- Expectations and output
- Expectations and other macro variables
- pt. 2.
- Selected topics - background and mechanics
- 4. A
- short history of money and monetary policy in the United States
- Defining the unit of account and the price of money
- The
- gold standard : a self-regulating mechanism?
- The
- creation of the Federal Reserve
- Finding the right monetary rule under a floating exchange rate
- The
- transformation of American monetary policy
- 5. The
- fundamentals of GDP accounting
- Three measurement approaches
- The
- nuts and bolts of the expenditure method
- Depreciation
- GDP versus GNP
- Historical and cross-country comparisons
- Investment, savings, and foreign borrowing
- 6.
- Reading a balance of payments statement
- A
- typical balance of payments statement
- Understanding credits and debits
- The
- power and pitfalls of BOP accounting
- 7.
- Understanding exchange rates
- The
- current account balance
- Inflation and purchasing power parity
- Interest rates
- Making sense of exchange rates
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Notes
- Index
- About the author.