Macroeconomics - Hardcover

Williamson, Stephen D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201710463 ISBN 13: 9780201710465

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2001

Synopsis

Built on the premise that undergraduate intermediate macroeconomics should be taught similarly to how modern macroeconomics research and graduate teaching are done, Stephen Williamson presents a modern approach to macroeconomics that is built up from microeconomic principles. This philosophy not only reinforces what students have learned in microeconomics, but it also gives them the tools necessary for later courses in the economics field.

The approach in Macroeconomics is even-handed and not biased toward a particular school of thought. The focus is on the market-clearing approach, but with a more central treatment of Keynesian analysis. The inclusion of Keynesian analysis provides more flexibility in the teaching of the course, without sacrificing the rigor of a micro-based model of macroeconomics. For those who don't think Keynesian approaches are useful, they can easily be omitted without loss of continuity.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Williamson is the Chester A. Phillips Professor of Financial Economics in the Department of Economics, Tippie College of Buisness, University of Iowa, and is a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.  He received a B.Sc. in Mathematics and an M.A. in Economics from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He has worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the Bank of Canada.  Professor Williamson has published scholarly articles in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Economic Theory, and the Journal of Monetary Economics, among other prestigious economics journals.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0201710463
• ISBN 13: 9780201710465
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 672