A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, Second Edition

What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know

By: David A. Moss

Narrated by: Christopher Kipiniak

Understanding the Ground Rules for the Global Economy

In this revised and updated edition of A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, David A. Moss draws on his years of teaching at Harvard Business School to explain important macro concepts using clear and engaging language.

This guidebook covers the essentials of macroeconomics and examines, in a simple and intuitive way, the core ideas of output, money, and expectations. Early chapters leave you with an understanding of everything from fiscal policy and central banking to business cycles and international trade. Later chapters provide a brief monetary history of the United States as well as the basics of macroeconomic accounting. You'll learn why countries trade, why exchange rates move, and what makes an economy grow.

Moss's detailed examples will arm you with a clear picture of how the economy works and how key variables impact business and will equip you to anticipate and respond to major macroeconomic events, such as a sudden depreciation of the real exchange rate or a steep hike in the federal funds rate.

©2014 David A. Moss (P)2023 Ascent Audio

Concise but complete. An excellent refresher

This book covers everything I studied in my macro economics college classes decades ago. It updates that with new learning since then. Since it's concise, there are no wasted words and the concept-to-word ratio is high. I went back over several sections to be sure I got all that was presented.

just a little dry

the narration is not very dynamic. it's all just a little dry and hard to listen to.