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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2013]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 415 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780262314404 0262314401 9780262314411 026231441X 1306290589 9781306290586 |
| DOI: | 10.7551/mitpress/9780262019736.001.0001 |