Macroeconomic Theory - Jean-Pascal Benassy

This graduate textbook is a primer in macroeconomics. It starts with essential undergraduate macroeconomics and develops in a simple and rigorous manner the central topics of modern macroeconomic theory including rational expectations growth business cycles money unemployment government policy and the macroeconomics of nonclearing markets. The emphasis throughout the book is on both foundations and presenting the simplest model for each topic that will deliver the relevant answers. The first two chapters recall the main workhorses of undergraduate macroeconomics: the Solow-Swan growth model the Keynesian IS-LM model and the Phillips curve. The next chapters present four fundamental building blocks of modern macroeconomics: rational expectations intertemporal dynamic models nonclearing markets and imperfect competition and uncertainty. Later the book deals with growth notably the Ramsey model overlapping generations and endogenous growth. Chapter 10 moves to the famous real business cycles (RBC) which integrate in a unified framework growth and fluctuations. The final chapters look at the issue of stabilization how best to guard the economy from shocks and the connections between politics and the macroeconomy. To make the book self contained a mathematical appendix gives a number of simple technical results that are sufficient to follow the formal developments of the book. TITLE: Macroeconomic Theory AUTHOR: Jean-Pascal Benassy SKU: 9780195387711 PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 11/03/2011 PLACE PUBLISHED: United States PAGES: 608 BINDING: Hardback LANGUAGE: English DIMENSIONS: 183 mm x 259 mm x 36 mm WEIGHT: 1215 gr