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PART 9

FURTHER TOPICS IN

MACROECONOMICS 817

CHAPTER 37 INFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT

819

Short-Run Inflation Adjustment 820

The Role of Expectations: Shifts in the Short-Run Inflation

Adjustment Curve 824

THINKING LIKE AN ECONOMIST: Distributional

Effects of Inflation and Unemployment 826

CASE IN POINT: Nobel Views on Inflation and

Unemployment 827

INTERNET CONNECTION: Winners of the Nobel

Prize in Economics 829

Shifts in the Natural Rate 829

CASE IN POINT: The Baby Boomers and the Natural

Rate 829

Shifts in Potential GDP 830

Inflation Shocks 830

FUNDAMENTALS OF INFLATION: Cyclical

Unemployment, Expectations, Inflation Shocks 831

Combining the Aggregate Demand–Inflation and Inflation

Adjustment Curves 832

REVIEW AND PRACTICE 834

CHAPTER 38 CONTROVERSIES IN

MACROECONOMIC POLICY 837

Do Deficits Matter? 838

Deficits and the Traditional View 839

Economic Consequences of Deficits and Surpluses 840

How Future Generations Are Affected by Government

Debt 840

Alternative Views 841

The Goals of Macroeconomic Policy 842

The Noninterventionist Perspective 844

THINKING LIKE AN ECONOMIST: Trade-Offs and

Choices 845

The Interventionist Perspective 847

Should the Federal Reserve Target Inflation? 848

Inflation Targeting and Policy Trade-Offs 849

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