Big ideas in macroeconomics : a nontechnical view / Kartik B. Athreya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Athreya, Kartik B., 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Macroeconomics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (429 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Macroeconomists have been caricatured either as credulous savants in love with the beauty of their mathematical models or as free-market fundamentalists who admit no doubt as to the market's wisdom. In this book, Kartik Athreya draws a truer picture, offering a nontechnical description of prominent ideas and models in macroeconomics, arguing for their value as interpretive tools as well as their policy relevance.

Contents:

Introduction

1. The modern macroeconomic approach and the Arrow-Debreu-McKenzie model

2. Prices, efficiency, and macroeconomics

3. Macroeconomists, efficiency, and inequality

4. Macroeconomic shortcuts

5. Benchmark macroeconomic models and policy advice

6. Macroeconomic theory and recent events.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-31441-X

0-262-52830-4

0-262-31440-1

OCLC:

868068201

Publisher Number:

ebc3339724