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Macroeconomics / Olivier Blanchard.

By: Blanchard, Olivier (Olivier J.).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1997Description: xix, 623 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0131480995.Subject(s): MacroeconomicsDDC classification: 339
Contents:
Introduction -- The basics -- Expectations -- Openness -- The supply side -- Pathologies -- The long run -- Change and transition -- Policy -- Epilogue.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Covers many of the main macroeconomic issues, providing, through its example-rich approach, a strong emphasis on the role of expectations, the openness of modern economics, and the role of dynamics.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The basics -- Expectations -- Openness -- The supply side -- Pathologies -- The long run -- Change and transition -- Policy -- Epilogue.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • I Introduction
  • 1 A Tour of the World
  • 2 A Tour of the Book
  • II The Basics
  • 3 The Goods Market
  • 4 The Goods Market: Dynamics
  • 5 Financial Markets
  • 6 Goods and Financial Markets: The IS-LM
  • III Expectations
  • 7 Expectations: The Basic Tools
  • 8 Expectations, Consumption, and Investment
  • 9 Financial Markets and Expectations
  • 10 Expectations, Policy, and Output
  • IV Openenness
  • 11 Openness in Goods and Financial Markets
  • 12 The Goods Market in an Open Economy
  • 13 Output, the Interest Rate, and the Exchange Rate
  • 14 Expectations, Exchange-Rate Movements, and Exchange-Rate Crises
  • V The Supply Side
  • 15 The Labor Market
  • 16 Putting All Markets Together
  • 17 The Phillips Curve
  • 18 Inflation, Disinflation, and Unemployment
  • 19 Inflation, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates
  • IV Pathologies
  • 20 Pathologies I: High Unemployment
  • 21 Pathologies: II: High Inflation
  • VII The Long Run
  • 22 The Facts of Growth
  • 23 Saving, Capital Accumulation, and Output
  • 24 Technological Progress and Growth
  • VIII Change And Transition
  • 25 Technological Progress, Unemployment, and Wages
  • 26 Transition in Eastern Europe
  • IX Policy
  • 27 Should Policy Makers be Restrained?
  • 28 Monetary Policy: A Summing Up
  • 29 Fiscal Policy: A Summing Up
  • X Epilogue
  • 30 The Story of Macroeconomics
  • Appendixes
  • Where to Find Numbers
  • National Income and Product Accounts
  • A Math Refresher
  • Glossary
  • Index

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