Macroeconomics - Hardcover

Gordon, Robert J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0673520528 ISBN 13: 9780673520524

Publisher: Longman, 1991

Synopsis

Designed for undergraduate courses, this book covers macroeconomic theory and uses cases studies to show how theory is translated into fact and practice.

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About the Author

Robert J. Gordon is Stanley G. Harris Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, after which he attended Oxford University in England on a Marshall Scholarship. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught at Harvard and the University of Chicago before moving to Northwestern in 1973, where he has taught for more than thirty years and where he was the chair of the Department of Economics from 1992 to 1996.

Professor Gordon is one of the world’s leading experts on inflation, unemployment, and productivity growth. His recent research includes work on the rise and fall of the New Economy, the U.S. productivity growth revival, and the recent stalling of European productivity growth. He is the author of several books, more than 100 scholarly articles, and more than 60 published comments on the research of others.

He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, a Guggenheim Fellow, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the Econometric Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0673520528
• ISBN 13: 9780673520524
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 704