Test Bank
to accompany
Test Bank prepared
by Constantin
Colonescu
MacEwan
University
,NETA Assessment: Test Bank to accompany Principles of Macroeconomics,
Sixth Canadian Edition
By N. Gregory Mankiw / Ronald D. Kneebone / Kenneth J. McKenzie
Test Bank prepared by Constantin Colonescu, MacEwan University
NETA copy editor: Frances Robinson
Available on Instructor’s Resource CD ISBN . 0-17-655440-8
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, TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 Ten Principles of Economics 1-1
Chapter 2 Thinking Like an Economist 2-1
Chapter 3 Interdependence and the Gains from Trade 3-1
Part 2 Supply And Demand: How Markets Work
Chapter 4 The Market Forces of Supply and Demand 4-1
Part 3 The Data of Macroeconomics
Chapter 5 Measuring a Nation’s Income 5-1
Chapter 6 Measuring the Cost of Living 6-1
Part 4 The Real Economy in the Long Run
Chapter 7 Production and Growth 7-1
Chapter 8 Saving, Investment, and the Financial System 8-1
Chapter 9 Unemployment and Its Natural Rate 9-1
Part 5 Money And Prices in the Long Run
Chapter 10 The Monetary System 10-1
Chapter 11 Money Growth and Inflation 11-1
Part 6 The Macroeconomics of Open Economies
Chapter 12 Open-Economy Macroeconomics: Basic Concepts 12-1
Chapter 13 A Macroeconomic Theory of the Small Open Economy 13-1
Part 7 Short-Run Economic Fluctuations
Chapter 14 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply 14-1
Chapter 15 The Influence of Monetary and Fiscal Policy on Aggregate Demand 15-1
Chapter 16 The Short-Run Tradeoff between Inflation and Unemployment 16-1
Part 8 Final Thoughts
Chapter 17 Five Debates over Macroeconomic Policy 17-1
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, PREFACE
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