Author:Charles Jones
No. of Pages: 445 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (January 16, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0393926389
ISBN-13: 978-0393926
Product Description
Macroeconomics Charles Jones distills modern macroeconomics as it is currently practiced—producing the first text to cover modern growth theory at the undergraduate level. The author's unique abilities as a teacher and writer render this modern treatment of economic theory an easy read for students new to the field. Together with a distinctive focus on problem solving, this clearly written text brilliantly matches accessibility with cutting-edge theory.
About The Author
Charles I. Jones (Ph.D. MIT, 1993) is the STANCO 25 Professor of Economics at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Jones's main research contributions are to the study of long-run economic growth. In particular, he has examined theoretically and empirically the fundamental sources of growth in per capita income over time and the reasons underlying the enormous differences in standards of living across countries. In recent years, he has used his expertise in macroeconomic methods to study the economic causes behind the rise in health spending and longevity. He is the author of Introduction to Economic Growth, Second Edition, also published by W.W. Norton & Company.
Contents
- Part 1 – Preliminaries
- Introduction to Macroeconomics
- Measuring the Macroeconomy
- Part 2 – The Long Run
- An Overview of Long-Run Economic Growth
- A Model of Production
- The Solow Growth Model
- Growth and Ideas – Completely unique chapter
- The Labor Market, Wages, and Unemployment
- Inflation
- Part 3 – The Short Run
- An Introduction to the Short-Run Model
- The IS Curve
- Monetary Policy and the Phillips Curve
- Stabilization Policy and the AS/AD Framework
- Part 4 – Applications
- The Government and the Macroeconomy
- International TradeExchange Rates and International Finance
- Parting Thoughts
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