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Book SynopsisA scholarly elaboration of the origins and the methods of macroeconomics
Trade Review'A thorn in the side of mainstream economics'
-- Steve Keen, author of Debunking Economics (Zed, 2011)
'An accessible and rich resource for those who appreciate critical and creative approaches. This and its companion macroeconomics volume contain numerous valuable insights for the serious student of economics'
-- Jomo Kwame Sundaram, former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for economic analysis (2005-2015), recipient of Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought (2007).
'These wonderful volumes are what many teachers and students of economics have been waiting for - textbooks that are logical, critical, accessible and relevant'
-- Professor Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University
'An accessible and rich resource for those who appreciate critical and creative approaches. This and its companion microeconomics volume contain numerous valuable insights for the serious student of economics'
-- Stuart Birks, head of the World Economics Association’s Textbook Commentaries Project, author of Rethinking economics: From Analogies to the Real World (Springer, 2015) and 40 Critical Pointers for Students of Economics (WEA Press, 2015)
Table of ContentsList of Boxes
List of Diagrams
List of Abbreviations
Preface, Preliminaries and Acknowledgements
1. Macroeconomy versus Macroeconomics?
2. Accelerator-Multiplier: Stabbing the Knife-Edge in the Back?
3. Classical Dichotomies
4. Growth Theories: Old, New or More of the Same?
5. The Keynesian Revolutions
6. Post-Keynesian Dilemmas
7. Keynesian Revolution: What Keynes, What Revolution?
8. From Monetarist Counter-Revolution to Fundamentalism
9. Forging the Consensus: Monetary Policy and Real Business Cycle Theory
10. From New Classical Fundamentalism to New Nonsensus Macroeconomics
11. International Macro?
12. The Enigmas of Overshooting
13. Whither Macroeconomics?
References
Index
