Macroeconomics / Edition 9

by David C Colander

Overview

The integrated solutions for Colander's Macroeconomics 9e have been specifically designed to help today's students succeed in the principles of economics course. Colander's trademark colloquial approach focuses on modern economics, institutions, history, and modeling, and is organized around learning objectives to make it easier for students to understand the material. Significant improvements in pedagogy such as reworked end-of-chapter problems and instant feedback on assignments will engage students in the ninth edition like never before and instill the “economic sensibility” necessary to apply economic concepts to the real world.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780077501860
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date:	01/28/2013
Edition description:	Net
Pages:	576
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

David Colander is Distinguished College Professor at Middlebury College. He has authored, coauthored, or edited over 40 books and over 150 articles on a wide range of economic topics.

He earned his B.A. at Columbia College and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. at Columbia University. He also studied at the University of Birmingham in England and at Wilhelmsburg Gymnasium in Germany. Professor Colander has taught at Columbia University, Vassar College, the University of Miami, and Princeton University as the Kelley Professor of Distinguished Teaching. He has also been a consultant to Time-Life Films, a consultant to Congress, a Brookings Policy Fellow, and Visiting Scholar at Nuffield College, Oxford.

He has been president of both the History of Economic Thought Society and the Eastern Economics Association. He has also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, The Journal of Economic Education, The Journal of Economic Methodology, The Journal of the History of Economic Thought, The Journal of Socio-Economics, and The Eastern Economic Journal. He has been chair of the AEA Committee on Electronic Publishing, a member of the AEA Committee on Economic Education, and is currently the associate editor for content of the Journal of Economic Education.

He is married to a pediatrician, Patrice. In their spare time, the Colanders designed and built an oak post-and-beam house on a ridge overlooking the Green Mountains to the east and the Adirondacks to the west. The house is located on the site of a former drive-in movie theater. (They replaced the speaker poles with fruit trees and used the I-beams from the screen as support for the second story of the carriage house and the garage.) They now live in both Florida and Vermont.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction: Thinking Like An EconomistChapter 1: Economics and Economic ReasoningChapter 2: The Production Possibility Model, Trade, and GlobalizationChapter 3: Economic InstitutionsChapter 4: Supply and DemandChapter 5: Using Supply and DemandPart 2: MacroeconomicsI Macroeconomic ProblemsChapter 6: Economic Growth, Business Cycles, Unemployment, and InflationChapter 7: Measuring the Aggregate EconomyII Policy ModelsChapter 8: The Long-Run Keynesian Policy Model: Demand-Side PoliciesChapter 9: The Multiplier ModelChapter 10: The Classical Short-Run Policy Model: Growth and Supply-Side PoliciesChapter 11: Advances in Modern Macroeconomic TheoryChapter 12: The Structural Stagnation Policy DilemmaIII Finance, Money, and the EconomyChapter 13: The Financial Sector and the EconomyChapter 14: Monetary PolicyChapter 15: Financial Crises, Panics, and Unconventional Monetary PolicyIV Taxes, Budgets, and Fiscal PolicyChapter 16: Deficits and DebtChapter 17: The Fiscal Policy DilemmaV Macro ProblemsChapter 18: Jobs and UnemploymentChapter 19: Inflation, Deflation, and Macro PolicyVI International Policy IssuesChapter 20: International Financial PolicyChapter 21: Macro Policy in a Global SettingChapter 22: Macro Policy in Developing Countries