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Book Synopsis
Daron Acemoglu is the Elizabeth and JamesKillian Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology. He has received a BA in economics fromthe University of York, an MSc in mathematical economics and econometrics fromthe London School of Economics, and a PhD in economics from the London Schoolof Economics.
He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the EuropeanEconomic Association, and the Society of Labor Economists. He has receivednumerous awards and fellowships, including the inaugural T. W. Schultz Prizefrom the University of Chicago in 2004, the inaugural Sherwin Rosen Award foroutstanding contribution to labor economics in 2004, the Distinguished ScienceAward from the Turkish Sciences Association in 2006, and the John von NeumannAward, Rajk College, Budapest, in 2007.
He was also the recipient of the John Bates Clark
Table of Contents
1. The Principles and Practice of Economics
2. Economic Science: Using Data and Models to Understand the World
3. Optimization: Doing the Best You Can
4. Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium
5. The Wealth of Nations: Defining and Measuring Macroeconomic Aggregates
6. Aggregate Incomes
7. Economic Growth
8. Why Isn't the Whole World Developed?
9. Employment and Unemployment
10. Credit Markets
11. The Monetary System
12. Short-Run Fluctuations
13. Countercyclical Macroeconomic Policy
14. Macroeconomics and International Trade
15. Open Economy Macroeconomics
