A Macroeconomics Reader

Bys: Snowdon, Brian and Vane, Howard

Book Overview

A Macroeconomics Reader brings together a collection of key readings in modern macroeconomics. Each article has been carefully chosen to provide the reader with accessible, non-technical, and reflective papers which critically assess important areas and current controversies within modern macroeconomics.
The book is divided into six parts, each with a separate introduction highlighting the relevance of the ensuing articles. The areas covered include: Keynes's General Theory, Keynesian economics and the Keynesian revolution; monetarism; rational expectations and new classical macroeconomics; real business cycle approaches: New Keynesian economics: economic growth.
This book will be an essential guide for students and lecturers in the field of macroeconomics as well as those interested in the history of economic thought.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415157161
• ISBN13: 9780415157162
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Nice selection of papers

This book is a very nice collection of papers appropriate for teaching an undergraduate course in Macro Economic theory. It could also be used in a pre-requisite course for those about to begin a graduate degree in economics.