This textbook enables readers to understand the current debate amongst macroeconomists by examining the major theoretical controversies that have raged in macroeconomics since the publication of Keynes's General Theory.
Table of Contents:
Preface. Introduction.
Part I: Keynes versus the Classics: Will Money-Wage Cuts Remove Unemployment?.
1. The Classical Model.
2. Keynes's General Theory.
Part II: Was Keynes's General Theory Simply a Special Case of the Classical Model?.
3. Special cases of the IS-LM Model and the Neoclassical Synthesis.
4. The Re-interpretation of Keynes.
Part III: Does Fiscal Policy Really Matter? The Crowding-out Debate:.
5. Wealth Effects and the Government Budget Identity.
Part IV: Inflation and Unemployment: Is there a Trade-off?.
6. Inflation and Unemployment.
Part V: Does Macroeconomic Policy Really Matter?.
7. The New Classical Macroeconomics: An Introduction.
8. The New Classical Macroeconomics: Some Responses.
Part VI: The Open Economy: The Consequences of Exchange Rate Regimes for Domestic Stabilization:.
9. The Open Economy: An Introduction.
10. The IS-LM Model of a Small Open Economy.
11. Stock-flow Equilibrium in the Open Economy.
12. Prices, Exchange Rates and Policy.
Bibliography.
Index.
About the Author :
Brian Hillier is a graduate of Leeds University and the University of Guelph, Ontario. He is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Liverpool. He has also taught at the universities of Durham, York, and Trent, Ontario, and at Sunderland Polytechnic, and worked in the UK Government Economic Service.
Review :
"Since so much macroeconomics will soon be only of the open variety, it is good that a student will have such a thorough exposure within a macroeconomics book that covers so much else as well. The style is lucid throughout and reader-friendly. An excellent book." Megnad Desai, London School of Economics and Political Science
