The author of The Undercover Economist moves beyond the jargon of macroeconomics to explain how the world's economy actually works, revealing what is happening behind today's headlines and what we can do to understand it better.

The economy : a user's manual -- The babysitting recession -- Money, money, money -- Just enough inflation -- Stimulus -- The prison camp recession -- Output gaps -- The invention of unemployment -- Boss-onomics -- The sirens of macroeconomics -- The cult of GNP -- Happynomics -- Can growth continue forever? -- Inequality -- The future of macroeconomics.