Macroeconomics Understanding the Global Economy

Now revised and updated, this volume offers the latest edition of the very successful macroeconomics textbook. The authors deal with sophisticated issues using advanced economic theory, but in a manner that is accessible to anyone taking a single course in macroeconomics.

A thoroughly revised and updated third edition of a very successful macroeconomics textbook, Macroeconomics: Understanding the Global Economy, Third Edition is a core text for introductory courses on macroeconomics. Using recent events to illustrate and motivate models and concepts, the authors draw out the lessons of the financial crisis and give a global outlook using historical and contemporary data from around the world. Technical material is presented clearly and accessibly, allowing students to develop a solid, practical understanding of the global economy and how economists think. With two new chapters on banking and sovereign debt and default, this edition is revised to also provide significantly increased coverage of the macroeconomic role of financial markets and financial intermediaries and greater coverage of the BRICs and other developments such as environmental economics and Sovereign Wealth Funds.

A comprehensive package of supplementary materials is available on the accompanying website at www.wileyeurope.com/college/miles, including PowerPoint slides (updated at regular intervals due to the fast-changing nature of today’s economy), Videos, Instructor’s Manual, an extensive Testbank, and solutions to questions and quizzes.

This third edition of a highly successful textbook integrates the lessons from the current financial crisis fully into its analytical framework. It is a model of clarity, and is interesting and fun to read.
Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England

Reading this textbook reminded me why I love macroeconomics. It is very readable, packed full of topical examples and the questions at the end of each chapter are a really helpful way of ensuring your mind takes in the material. I found myself wanting to refer to some of the material in my own writing. Congratulations to the three authors.
Jim O’Neill, Goldman Sachs and Inventor of the “BRICs”

The financial crisis has posed many difficult questions to policymakers and economists but it has at least provided a dramatic set of interesting questions for students who want to learn about macroeconomics and the world economy. These questions are at the heart of this textbook which provides a clear understanding of the theories, structures and institutions that make up the world economy. If we are to get out of this crisis or avoid the next one we need textbooks like this that grapple with real world issues.
Nouriel Roubini, Stern School of Business, New York University and Roubini Global Economics

Macroeconomics: Understanding the Global Economy, 3rd Edition is to help students – and indeed anyone – understand contemporary and past economic events that shape the world we live in, and at a sophisticated level. But it does so without focusing on mathematical techniques and models for their own sake.

Theory is taken seriously – so much so that the authors go to pains to understand the key aspects of theories in a way that will not put people off before they see how theories are useful to analyse issues. The authors believe that theories are essential to better understand the world, thus the book includes a wealth of historic and current episodes and data to both see how theories can help interpret the world and also to judge their validity.

Economies today are very inter-connected; what happens in China matters pretty much everywhere; and what happens in one (even small) country in the euro zone has implications for the whole euro area and beyond, consequently Macroeconomics, 3rd Edition adopts a very international focus.