Big ideas in macroeconomics a nontechnical view

Macroeconomists have been caricatured either as credulous savants in love with the beauty of their mathematical models or as free-market fundamentalists who admit no doubt as to the market's wisdom. In this book, Kartik Athreya draws a truer picture, offering a nontechnical description of promi...

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Main Author: Athreya, Kartik B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press 2013
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Summary:Macroeconomists have been caricatured either as credulous savants in love with the beauty of their mathematical models or as free-market fundamentalists who admit no doubt as to the market's wisdom. In this book, Kartik Athreya draws a truer picture, offering a nontechnical description of prominent ideas and models in macroeconomics, arguing for their value as interpretive tools as well as their policy relevance
Physical Description:xi, 415 pages illustrations
ISBN:9780262314411
026231441X
0262314401
9780262314404