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Title:
Macroeconomics
Author:
Blanchard, Olivier (Olivier J.)
ISBN:
9780131860261

9780138142698

9780131982017
Edition:
4th ed.
Publication Information:
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, ©2006.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 587, [35] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Contents:
Part I: Introduction -- A tour of the world -- A tour of the book -- Part II: The short run -- The goods market -- Financial markets -- Goods and financial markets : the IS-LM model -- Part III: The medium run -- The labor market -- Putting all markets together : the AS-AD model -- The natural rate of unemployment and the Phillips curve -- Inflation, activity, and nominal money growth -- Part IV: The long run -- The facts of growth -- Saving, capital accumulation and output -- Technological progress and growth -- Technological progress, wages, and unemployment -- Part V: Expectations -- The basic tools -- Financial markets and expectations -- Expectations, consumption, and investment -- Expectations, output, and policy -- Part VI: The open economy -- Openness in goods and financial markets -- The goods market in an open economy -- Output, the interest rate, and the exchange rate -- Exchange rate regimes -- Part VII: Pathologies -- Depressions and slumps -- High inflation -- Part VIII: Back to policy -- Should policy makers be restrained? -- Monetary policy : a summing up -- Fiscal policy : a summing up -- Part IX: Epilogue -- Epilogue : the story of macroeconomics.
Abstract:
"The book is organized aroung two central parts :A core, and a set of three major extensions. An introduction precedes the core. The set of extensions is followed by a review of the role of policy. The book ends with an epilogue. A flowchart on the front endpaper makes it easy to see how the chapters are organized, and fit within the book's overall structure."--Preface.
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