/*0-13-030372-0, 3037B-7, Colander, David, Gamber, Edward, Macroeconomics*/ This fun-to-read book contains a policy-oriented, up-to-date approach to macroeconomics. Its humble approach recognizes the fact that economists do not have all the answers, and presents modern macroeconomics with a lively and entertaining writing style and a minimum of technical models. A four-part organization provides an introduction to intermediate macroeconomics, then covers growth and the long run, fluctuations and the short run, and institutional foundations of macroeconomic policy. For policy macro economists.
David C. Colander is the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics at Middlebury College. In the 2001-2002 academic year, he was the Stanley Kelley Jr. Professor of Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. He has authored, coauthored, or edited over 30 books and over 80 articles on a wide range of economics topics.
Professor Colander earned his B.A, at Columbia College and his M. Phil and Ph.D. at Columbia University. He also studied in England and Germany. He has previously taught at Columbia University, Vassar College, and the University of Miami, and has been a consultant to Time-Life Films, a consultant to Congress, a Brookings Policy Fellow, and a Visiting Scholar at Nuffield College, Oxford.
He belongs to a variety of professional associations, has served on the Board of Directors, and as Vice President and President of both the History of Economic Thought Society and the Eastern Economic Association. He has also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Journal of Economic Methodology, the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, the Eastern Economic Journal, and the Journal of Economic Education. His current research is on the policy implications of complexity.
Edward N. Gamber is an Associate Professor of Economics at Lafayette College. He has authored numerous articles on macro and monetary economics. His principal areas of research are on what causes business cycles and how the Federal Reserve reacts to economic fluctuations.
Professor Gamber earned his B.A. at Towson State University and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Virginia Tech. He has taught at Oberlin College and at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. He has worked as a consultant in private industry as well as the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and as principal analyst at the Congressional Budget Office from 1996 to 1998. Professor Gamber received the Omicron Delta Epsilon award for outstanding teaching. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economics and the Eastern Economic Journal and is currently author of The Wall Street Journal Macroeconomic Educator's Review.
