A Macroeconomics Reader | Brian Snowdon, Howard Vane | Taylor & Franci

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A Macroeconomics Reader

ABSTRACT

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|26 pages

The development of modern macroeconomics: a rough guide

part |2 pages

Part I Keynesian economics and the Keynesian revolution

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|19 pages

Keynesian economics: the search for first principles Journal of Economic Literature (1976) 14, December, pp. 1258–73

chapter 3|40 pages

On different interpretations of the General Theory Journal of Monetary Economics (1990) 26, October, pp. 205–43

chapter 4|14 pages

Keynes’s General Theory: interpreting the interpretations Economic Journal (1991) 101, March, pp. 276–87

chapter 5|26 pages

The fall and rise of Keynesian economics Economic Record (1988) December, pp. 278–94

chapter 6|22 pages

Price flexibility and output stability: an old Keynesian view Journal of Economic Perspectives (1993) 7, Winter, pp. 45–65

part |2 pages

Part II The monetarist counter-revolution

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter 7|16 pages

The role of monetary policy American Economic Review (1968) 58, March, pp. 1–17

chapter 8|36 pages

The structure of monetarism Kredit und Kapital (1975) 8, pp. 191–215, 292–313

chapter 9|31 pages

Monetarism: an interpretation and an assessment Economic Journal (1981) 91, March, pp. 1–28

chapter 10|16 pages

The monetarist controversy revisited Contemporary Policy Issues (1988) 6, October, pp. 3–18

part |2 pages

Part III The challenge of rational expectations and new classical macroeconomics

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter 11|25 pages

After Keynesian macroeconomics After the Phillips Curve: Persistence of High Inflation and High Unemployment (1978) Boston, MA: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, pp. 49–72

chapter 12|382 pages

A child’s guide to rational expectations Journal of Economic Literature (1982) 20, March, pp. 39–51