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I. AN INTRODUCTION TO MACROECONOMICS. 1. Actual and Potential GNP: Fluctuations and Growth. 2. A Review of the National Income and Product Accounts. 3. Introduction to Income Determination: Multiplier. II. NATIONAL INCOME DETERMINATION: THE STATIC EQUILIBRIUM MODEL. 4. Demand-Side Equilibrium: Income and the Interest Rate. 5. An Introduction to Monetary and Fiscal Policy. 6. Demand and Supply in the Labor Market. 7. Supply-Side Equilibrium: Output and the Price Level. 8. Equilibrium in the Static Model. 9. Monetary, Fiscal, and Incomes Policy. 10. Search, Wage Rigidity, and Unemployment. 11. Rational Expectations and Demand Policy. III. SECTORAL DEMAND FUNCTIONS AND EXTENSIONS OF THE STATIC MODEL. 12. Consumption and Consumer Expenditure. 13. Investment Demand. 14. Demand for Money. 15. Supply of Money. 16. Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the Extended Model. 17. Foreign Sector and the Balance of Payments. 18. Macroeconomics When Markets Do Not Clear. IV. MEDIUM-TERM DYNAMICS: BETWEEN STATIC EQUILIBRIUM AND LONG-RUN GROWTH. 19. Inflation, Productivity, and Income Distribution. 20. Inflation and Unemployment: Phillips Curve. 21. Introduction to Stock-Adjustment Dynamics. 22. Trend Growth in the Static Model. V. LONG-RUN GROWTH WITH FULL EMPLOYMENT. 23. Introduction to Growth Models. 24. Basic Neoclassical Growth Model. 25. Basic Model Extended: Varying Saving Assumptions. 26. Golden Rule and an Introduction to Optimal Growth Models. 27. Medium-Term Growth and The Measure of Our Ignorance.

Fischer Black, Myron Scholes, The Valuation of Option Contracts and a Test of Market Efficiency, The Journal of Finance, Vol. 27, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the American Finance Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 27-29, 1971 (May, 1972), pp. 399-417

William Sharpe's influential Portfolio Theory and Capital Management is as relevant today as when it was first published in 1970. McGraw-Hill is proud to reintroduce tiffs hard-to-Find classic in its original edition. Dr. Sharpe's groundbreaking approach to the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) laid tile foundation for today's most important investment tools and theories, gave the investment world the stillvital Sharpe Ratio -- and made him the co-recipient of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Economics!A new foreword helps place Dr. Sharpe's synthesis of portfolio and capital markets theories into today's financial environment, while his rules for the intelligent selection of investments tinder conditions of risk remain as fresh today as in 1970. Serious investors and students of finance will respect its history ... as they reabsorb its timeless lessons.

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