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The thoroughly updated and revised 38th edition of Real Wold Macro features engaging, accessible articles linking real-world issues to the topics covered in a standard macroeconomics textbook. Every aspect of macroeconomics as we know it has been afected by the global Covid-19 crisis. In addition to covering the basics - monetary and fiscal policy, productivity and investment, inflation and unemployment - this new edition of Real Worl Macro contains the most up-to-date material and analysis covering the pandemic and its economic consequences. This edition also includes a chapter on resistance and alternatives to prevailing economic policies and institutions. (from back cover)