Macroeconomics - Hardcover

Williamson, Stephen D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0321416589 ISBN 13: 9780321416582

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 2007

Synopsis

Williamson’s Macroeconomics uses a thoroughly modern approach that is consistent with the way that macroeconomic research is conducted today. Introduction and Measurement Issues: Introduction; Measurement: National Income Accounting, Prices, Saving, and Labor Markets; Business Cycle Measurement. A One-Period Model of the Macroeconomy: Consumer and Firm Behavior: The Work-Leisure Decision and Profit Maximization; A Closed-Economy One-Period Macroeconomic Model. Economic Growth: Economic Growth: Malthus and Solow; Income Disparity Among Countries and Endogenous Growth. Savings, Investment, and Government Deficits: A Two-Period Model: The Consumption Savings Decision and Credit Markets; A Real Intemporal Model with Investment. Money and Business Cycles: A Monetary Intertemporal Model: Money, Prices, and Monetary Policy; Market-Clearing Models of the Business Cycl

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About the Author:

Stephen Williamson is the Chester A. Phillips Professor of Financial Economics in the Department of Economics, Tippie College of Buisness, University of Iowa, and is a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.  He received a B.Sc. in Mathematics and an M.A. in Economics from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He has worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the Bank of Canada.  Professor Williamson has published scholarly articles in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Economic Theory, and the Journal of Monetary Economics, among other prestigious economics journals.

About this edition

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0321416589
• ISBN 13: 9780321416582
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 720