Macroeconomics / Olivier Blanchard.
By: Blanchard, Olivier (Olivier J.).
Material type: BookPublisher: 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: 339Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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