A short course of macroeconomics. What the leader needs to know

The most affordable manual for macroeconomics from a professor of Harvard business school.
Macroeconomic factors affect the daily life of each of us. The pace of inflation affect prices, as well as our income and savings. The interest rates determine the cost of borrowing and the profitability of bank accounts and bonds, and the exchange rate affects decisions on the purchase of imported goods, as well as the cost of our foreign assets. And all this is only the top of the iceberg. Numerous macroeconomic parameters - from unemployment and ending with productivity - equally affect the economic environment in which we live.
Most managers knowledge of the foundations of macroeconomics allows more deeply and more details - to judge the state of the market, both from demand and from the supply side. However, macroeconomics has practical value not only for business.
It is important to have a general idea of ​​this subject to everyone - to consumers, and workers, and investors, and even voters.
Unfortunately, even many well -educated people have never studied macroeconomics. And those who are familiar with this subject often spent the main part of the time on the solution of examples divorced from life, and not on the study of its deep foundations. Sometimes macroeconomics is taught with emphasis on the solution of numerous equations and analysis of graphs that distract students from important ideas that make up the meaning of this science.
Author of this book - a professor of Harvard business school - focused on basic principles and interconnections, and not on mathematical formulas and models. Its goal is to tell about the basics of macroeconomics - from GDP and GNP to foreign exchange rates and inflation, and to do this is available and scientifically at the same time