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Macroeconomics in Context, First Edition Supplementary Materials

Four supplements to Macroeconomics in Context are available for free download. The Student Study Guide and PowerPoint Slides are available below for everyone. The Instructor's Resource Manual and Test Bank are available only to verified instructors. To obtain access to the instructor materials, please e-mail us at gdae@tufts.edu.

Now available:
Advance Second Edition chapters on The Financial Crisis and the Great Recession and Debt and Deficits.
Updated figures for Chapters 9, 10, and 11 including data for the 2007-9 recession and its aftermath.

Student Study Guide

The Student Study Guide for Macroeconomics in Context, prepared by Marjolein van der Veen with contributions by Julie A. Nelson, provides students with material that will help them review and understand the concepts presented in the text. For each chapter of the text, the Student Study Guide provides chapter objectives, key terms, active review questions including fill-in-the-blank, true/false, short answer questions, and a self-test of 20 multiple-choice questions.

Students can freely download the Student Study Guide below, either chapter-by-chapter or the entire document. All files are .pdf documents, which can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you cannot read these documents, you can Download Adobe Acrobat Reader for free).

Complete Macroeconomics in Context Student Study Guide (2.7 MB)(15 Chapters)

PART I: The Context for Economic Analysis
Student Study Guide for Chapter 1: Economic Activity in Context
Student Study Guide for Chapter 2: Useful Tools and Concepts
Student Study Guide for Chapter 3: What Economies Do
Student Study Guide for Chapter 4: Supply and Demand

PART II: Macroeconomics Basics
Student Study Guide for Chapter 5: Macroeconomic Measurement: The Current Approach
Student Study Guide for Chapter 6: Macroeconomic Measurement: Environmental and Social Dimensions
Student Study Guide for Chapter 7: Employment and Unemployment
Student Study Guide for Chapter 8: The Structure of the United States Economy

PART III: Macroeconomic Theory and Policy
Student Study Guide for Chapter 9: Aggregate Demand and Economic Fluctuations
Student Study Guide for Chapter 10: Fiscal Policy
Student Study Guide for Chapter 11: Money and Monetary Policy
Student Study Guide for Chapter 12: Aggregate Supply, Aggregate Demand, and Inflation: Putting It All Together

PART IV: Macroeconomic Issues and Applications
Student Study Guide for Chapter 13: The Global Economy
Student Study Guide for Chapter 14: How Economies Grow and Develop
Student Study Guide for Chapter 15: Macroeconomic Challenges for the 21st Century

PowerPoint Slides

These chapter files contain a separate PowerPoint slide for each table and figure in the text. Note that the figure or table number is indicated in the "Notes" window. Separate versions of the PowerPoint slides are provided below for PCs and Apple Macs. If you have any problems opening or viewing the files, please contact us at gdae@tufts.edu.

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