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., 1971- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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:1 online resource (xi, 415 pages) : illustrations
ISBN:9780262314404
0262314401
9780262314411
026231441X
1306290589
9781306290586
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262019736.001.0001