Overview
- Fascinating, innovative approach to macroeconomics
- Economic theory and policy in action from the Great Depression to the current financial crisis
- Insights into how economists try to tackle macroeconomic problems
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
The Great Depression of the 1930s gave birth to a branch of economics that in 1933 Ragnar Frisch christened macroeconomics. Over the decades that followed up to the present, the interactions of economic events, economic policy, and macroeconomic theory have created a fascinating story integral to the life and politics of national economies around the world. This book recounts that story. It brings together three strands of activities and trends: the economic events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that defined the economic problems facing the nation, policymakers, and economists; the responses of economists who brought the accumulated knowledge of the profession to bear on these problems; and the successes and failures of these policies as they reshaped the economic landscape and defined new sets of problems to be analyzed by macroeconomic theory. This highly readable book presents an unconventional perspective on macroeconomics – the interplay of theory and policy in a historical context.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Evolution of Macroeconomic Theory and Policy
Authors: Kamran Dadkhah
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77008-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-77007-7Published: 04 August 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42428-1Published: 28 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-77008-4Published: 25 July 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 269
Topics: Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, History of Economic Thought/Methodology