Macroeconomics - David Colander

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Résumé :
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 and for instructors to build assignments within Connect Plus. McGraw-Hill's adaptive learning component, LearnSmart, provides assignable modules that help students master core topics. Significant improvements in pedagogy such as reworked end-of-chapter problems, seamless integration within the Connect Plus eBook, 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.

Biographie:
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.

Sommaire:

PART 1: INTRODUCTION: THINKING LIKE AN ECONOMIST

1 Economics and Economic Reasoning

2 The Production Possibility Model, Trade, and Globalization

Appendix A: Graphish: The Language of Graphs

3 Economic Institutions

Appendix A: The History of Economic Systems

4 Supply and Demand

5 Using Supply and Demand

Appendix A: Algebraic Representation of Supply, Demand, and Equilibrium

PART 2: MARCROECONOMICS

I MACROECONOMIC BASICS

6 Economic Growth, Business Cycles, and Structural Stagnation

7 Measuring the Aggregate Economy

8 Comparative Advantage, Exchange Rates, and Globalization

II POLICY MODELS

9 The Short-Run Keynesian Policy Model: Demand-Side Policies

9W The Multiplier Model

10 The Classical Long-Run Policy Model: Growth and Supply- Side Policies

10W Advances in Modern Macroeconomic Theory

11 The Structural Stagnation Policy Dilemma

Appendix A: Creating a Targeted Safety Net to Help the Least Well Off

III FINANCE, MONEY, AND THE ECONOMY

12 The Financial Sector and the Economy

Appendix A: A Closer Look at Financial Assets and Liabilities

13 Monetary Policy

14 Financial Crises, Panics, and Unconventional Monetary Policy

IV TAXES, BUDGETS, AND FISCAL POLICY

15 Deficits and Debt

16 The Fiscal Policy Dilemma

V MACROECONOMIC PROBLEMS

17 Jobs and Unemployment

18 Inflation, Deflation, and Macro Policy

VI INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMIC POLICY ISSUES

19 International Trade Policy

20 International Financial Policy

Appendix A: History of Exchange Rate Systems

21 Macro Policy in a Global Setting

22 Macro Policy in Developing Countries