《雙語教學叢書：宏觀經濟學原理（第2版）（影印版）》同時有翻譯版（人大社博克公司）著名經濟學家帕金的代表作，當前美國、加拿大前20所管理學院指定教材。《雙語教學叢書：宏觀經濟學原理（第2版）（影印版）》介紹了宏觀經濟學課程所有基本的概念和原理，並精心編排章節順序以強化教學效果。《雙語教學叢書：宏觀經濟學原理（第2版）（影印版）》組織結構的基本思想是，在充分就業狀態，實物經濟僅受到實際變量的影響，價格水平與貨幣量成正比。這一思想在幫助學生進一步理解充分就業的經濟狀態和經濟周期時會產生難以置信的作用。第2版更新了所選事例和數據，力圖揭示21世紀初世界經濟的面貌。

羅賓·巴德，她自1970年起在多所大學任教，本書中的很多內容是她在西安大略大學指導學生時積累的。

邁克爾·帕金，他曾經擔任加拿大經濟學會主席，並且在《美國經濟評論》和《貨幣經濟學雜志》編委會中任職。他曾發表有關宏觀經濟學，貨幣經濟學以及國際經濟學的160多篇論文。他還是已經五次再版的暢銷教科書《經濟學》的作者。作為夫妻。羅賓與邁克爾的合作非常完美。他們最引人注目的研究成果是衡量中央銀行獨立性的巴德-帕金指數，這一成果引發了該領域丈量的後繼研究。他們合作撰寫的教材包括《宏觀經濟學》（Prentice-Hall公司出版），《現代宏觀經濟學》（Pea rsonEducation Canada公司出版）以及《經濟學：全球視角下的加拿大》——帕金所著《經濟學》的加拿大改編版。

第1篇 導論
第1章 經濟學預覽
本章要點
1.1 定義與問題
微觀經濟學
宏觀經濟學
宏觀經濟學所研究的問題
檢查站1.1
1.2 經濟學：一門社會科學
觀察與測量
建立模型
檢驗模型
揭示因果關繫
檢查站1.2
1.3 宏觀經濟學思想
理性選擇與激勵
生活水平與生產率
生活成本與貨幣數量
支出波動與生產率波動

A unit of account is an agreed-upon measure for stating the prices of goods and services. To get the most out of your budget， you have to figure out whether going to a rock concert is worth its opportunity cost.
But that cost is not dollars and cents. It is the number of movies， cappueeinos， ice-cream cones， or local phone calls that you must give up to attend the concert. It' s easy to do such calculations when all these goods have prices in terms of dollars and cents （see Table 11.1 ）. If a rock concert costs $ 32 and movie costs $ 8， you know right away that going to the concert costs you 4 movies. If a cappuccino costs $ 2，going to the concert costs 16 cappuccinos. You need only one calculation to figure out the opportunity cost of any pair of goods and services. For example， the opportunity cost of the rock concert is 128 local phone calls （＄32.00÷；25￠= 128）.
Now imagine how troublesome it would be if the rock concert ticket agent posted its price as 4 movies， and if the movie theater posted its price as 4 cappuccinos， and if the coffee shop posted the price of a cappueeino as 2 ice-cream cones， and if the ice-cream shop posted its price as 4 local phone calls！ Now how much nlnning around and calculating do you have to do to figure out how much that rock concert is going to cost you in terms of the movies，cappuccino， ice cream， or phone calls that you must give up to attend it? You get the answer for movies right away from the sign posted by the ticket agent. But for all the other goods， you' re go-ing to have to visit many different places to establish the price of each commodity in terms of another and then calculate prices in u-nits that are relevant for your own decision. Cover up the column labeled "price in money units" in Table 11.1 and see how hard it is to figure out the number of local phone calls it costs to attend a rock concert. It' s enough to make a person swear off rock !
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