Macroeconomics

Name: Macroeconomics
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ISBN: 9780471575436

ISBN-10: 0471575437

ISBN-13: 9780471575436

Edition: 4th 1993

Authors: Robert J. Barro

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Robert Barro's Macroeconomics has become the classic textbook presentation of the equilibrium approach to macroeconomics. In its first four editions, this book has shown undergraduates how market-clearing models with strong microeconomic foundations can be used to understand real-world phenomena and to evaluate alternative macroeconomic policies. Moreover, a single, unified framework works as well for short-term business fluctuation as for long-term economic growth. This latest edition includes the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in economic growth, recent evidence on the macroeconomics of labor markets and public finance, and up-to-date results on the interplay between…

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List price: $90.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 640
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.596
Language: English

The Approach to Macroeconomics	p. 1
Microeconomic Foundations and the Basic Market-Clearing Model	p. 39
Work Effort, Production, and Consumption - The Economics of Robinson Crusoe	p. 41
The Behavior of Households With Markets for Commodities and Credit	p. 65
The Demand for Money	p. 95
The Basic Market-Clearing Model	p. 117
The Labor Market	p. 145
Inflation	p. 163
An Introduction to Inflation and Interest Rates	p. 165
Money, Inflation, and Interest Rates in the Market-Clearing Model	p. 187
Business Fluctuations, Unemployment, and Economic Growth	p. 213
Investment and Real Business Cycles	p. 215
Unemployment	p. 245
Economic Growth	p. 273
Government Behavior	p. 305
Government Purchases and Public Services	p. 307
Taxes and Transfers	p. 333
The Public Debt	p. 361
The International Economy	p. 393
World Markets in Goods and Credit	p. 395
Exchange Rates	p. 423
Interactions Between the Monetary Sector and the Real Sector	p. 455
Financial Intermediation	p. 457
The Interplay Between Nominal and Real Variables - What Is the Evidence?	p. 489
Money and Business Fluctuations in the Market-Clearing Model	p. 513
The Keynesian Theory of Business Fluctuations	p. 539
Bibliography	p. 575
Glossary	p. 587
Author Index	p. I-1
Subject Index	p. I-5
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