Macroeconomic Theory
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Macroeconomic Theory
Macroeconomic Theory

Macroeconomic Theory

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Jean-Pascal Benassy (Author)  

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This graduate textbook is a "primer" in macroeconomics. It starts with essential undergraduate macroeconomics and develops in a simple and rigorous manner the central topics of modern macroeconomic theory including rational expectations, growth, business cycles, money, unemployment, government policy, and the macroeconomics of nonclearing markets. The emphasis throughout the book is on both foundations and presenting the simplest model for each topic that will deliver the relevant answers. The first two chapters recall the main workhorses of undergraduate macroeconomics: the Solow-Swan growth model, the Keynesian IS-LM model, and the Phillips curve. The next chapters present four fundamental "building blocks" of modern macroeconomics: rational expectations, intertemporal dynamic models, nonclearing markets and imperfect competition, and uncertainty. Later the book deals with growth, notably the Ramsey model, overlapping generations, and endogenous growth. Chapter 10 moves to the famous "real business cycles" (RBC), which integrate in a unified framework growth and fluctuations. The final chapters look at the issue of stabilization, how best to guard the economy from shocks, and the connections between politics and the macroeconomy. To make the book self contained, a mathematical appendix gives a number of simple technical results that are sufficient to follow the formal developments of the book. 80 line drawings
Jean-Pascal Benassy graduated from Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris and has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently Director of Research at National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a Research Fellow at Center for Economic Research and its Applications (CEPREMAP).
  • Contributor: Jean-Pascal Benassy
  • Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • ISBN13: 9780195387711
  • Number of Pages: 608
  • Packaged Dimensions: 183x259x36mm
  • Packaged Weight: 1215
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Release Date: 2011-05-12
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Jean-Pascal Benassy graduated from Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris and has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently Director of Research at National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a Research Fellow at Center for Economic Research and its Applications (CEPREMAP).

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