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Helping students understand our interconnected world

While continuing to feature the strongest coverage of growth in the market, Jones now helps students examine our global, interconnected economy using examples from the COVID-19 recession, the Great Recession of 2008, and other worldwide events. In addition to introducing revised chapters on short-run growth, Macroeconomics 6e tells the story of long-run economic growth over the last few centuries, hitting key concepts like production function, Solow Growth Theory, inflation, and unemployment. Current, relevant, and accessible, Macroeconomics 6e strikes a balance between theoretical models and applications, while developing and building students' intuition.

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Features of the New Edition

Tells the story of economic growth by an expert in the field

Jones helps students understand long-run economics, including the production function, Solow Growth Theory, and concepts of inflation and unemployment. By understanding growth, students start to see short-runs events as “wobbles” along a long-term curve.

The Real Price of Industrial Commodities graphic in iPad

Contemporary global examples provide context for macroeconomic concepts.

Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic are paired with those from the Great Recession to help students understand the short run. These include the actions of Central banks, supply and demand shocks, and impacts on the labor markets.

Check You Understanding question in iPad

New digital features provide support and context

Check Your Understanding questions, authored by Chad Jones, are integrated into the Norton Illumine Ebook to provide support where students are most likely to need it.

About the Author

Charles I. Jones is the STANCO 25 Professor of Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Jones has been honored as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Econometric Society, and a co-editor of Econometrica. He is currently the area coordinator for the economics group at Stanford GSB.

Why Adopters Love Jones

"I am really happy with the approach and coverage in the text. . .The topics coverage, the setup of formal models, and the relatively informal language used make it very approachable to students, and easy to deliver."

—Kyriakos Neanidis

University of Manchester

"I like the emphasis on the long term, and generally find that the textbook strikes a good balance between being formal mathematically speaking and appealing to economic intuition. . . A balanced treatment of long-term and short-term aspects, as well as a balance between formal treatment of the materials and more 'prosaic' discussions (like the Case Studies)."

—Simeon Alder

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Norton Illumine Ebook, $75*

With the Norton Illumine Ebook, students will have everything they need to come prepared to class—the full text with highlighting and note-taking capability, integrated Check Your Undestanding questions, and Country Snapshots.

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Digital + print text, $137*

For students who want a print experience, our print + digital bundle will provide the full experience including the Norton Illumine Ebook with Check Your Understanding questions and downloadable Country Snapshots.

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