1.A tour of the world -- 2.A tour of the book -- 3.The goods market -- 4.Financial markets -- 5.Goods and financial markets: the IS-LM model -- 6.The labour market -- 7.Putting all markets together: the AS-AD model -- 8.The Phillips curve, the natural rate of unemployment and inflation -- 9.The crisis -- 10.The facts of growth -- 11.Saving, capital accumulation and output -- 12.Technological progress and growth -- 12.Technological progress and growth -- 13.Technological progress: the short, the medium and the long run -- 14.Expectations: the basic tools -- 15.Financial markets and expectations -- 16.Expectations, consumption and investment -- 17.Expectations, output and policy -- 18.Openness in goods and financial markets -- 19.The goods market in an open economy -- 20.Output, the interest rate and the exchange rate -- 21.Exchange rate regimes -- 22.Should policy-makers be restrained? -- 23.Fiscal policy: a summing up -- 24.Monetary policy: a summing up -- 25.Epilogue: the story of macroeconomics -- Appendix 1.An introduction to national income and product accounts -- Appendix 2.A Maths refresher -- Appendix 3.An introduction to econometrics.