UNDERSTANDING MODERN MACROECONOMICS - Couverture souple

Gutmann, Peter

 
9781420808643: UNDERSTANDING MODERN MACROECONOMICS

Synopsis

This book explains modern macroeconomics. It does not use equations, graphs, diagrams or footnotes.The book is designed to make modern macroeconomics available to those who never had a university course in economics or who had one years ago, now little remembered. The book is non-technical. Since readers are busy, the book is purposely confined to about a hundred pages.It seeks to combat the lack of literacy in basic macroeconomics that is all too evident among Americans.It covers a series of important subjects: resources; national output; living standards; economic growth; employment and unemployment; money and interest rates; inflation; government; deficits and debt; international; productivity; incentives; expectations; income distribution; asset markets; business fluctuations; creative destruction; planning horizons; international convergence; and more.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book explains modern macroeconomics. It does not use equations, graphs, diagrams or footnotes.The book is designed to make modern macroeconomics available to those who never had a university course in economics or who had one years ago, now little remembered. The book is non-technical. Since readers are busy, the book is purposely confined to about a hundred pages.It seeks to combat the lack of literacy in basic macroeconomics that is all too evident among Americans.It covers a series of important subjects: resources; national output; living standards; economic growth; employment and unemployment; money and interest rates; inflation; government; deficits and debt; international; productivity; incentives; expectations; income distribution; asset markets; business fluctuations; creative destruction; planning horizons; international convergence; and more.

Biographie de l'auteur

Peter M. Gutmann is professor of Economics at Baruch College of the City University of New York.He has a doctorate from Harvard University. His dissertation title was "Income Distribution, Asset Values and Economic Growth".Professor Gutmann is widely known due to his pathbreaking work on the subterranean economy which created a whole industry of articles and books by economists from all over the world on that subject.He is the author of "Macroeconomics in Brief. He has published in a range of economic journals including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Income Distribution, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and others.Professor Gutmann teaches macroeconomics and growth economics at Baruch College of the City University of New York.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.