Macroeconomics /

Robert Barro's Macroeconomics has become the classic textbook presentation of the equilibrium approach to macroeconomics. In its first four editions, this book has shown undergraduates how market-clearing models with strong microeconomic foundations can be used to understand real-world phenomen...

• Main Author: Barro, Robert J., 1944-
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, 1997
• Edition: 5th ed.
• Subjects: MACROECONOMIA; KEYNESIANISMO; DEMANDA DE DINERO; MERCADO DE TRABAJO; INFLACION; DESEMPLEO; CRECIMIENTO ECONOMICO; GASTOS PUBLICOS; IMPUESTOS; DEUDA PUBLICA; ECONOMIA INTERNACIONAL; TIPO DE CAMBIO; CICLOS ECONOMICOS; ANALISIS MACROECONOMICO; TEORIA MACROECONOMICA; FLUCTUACIONES ECONOMICAS; CAMBIO EXTERIOR; ECONOMIA MUNDIAL; PROGRESO ECONOMICO; ESCUELA KEYNESIANA; ECONOMIA KEYNESIANA; TEORIA KEYNESIANA

Table of Contents:

• 1. The approach to macroeconomics.
• 2. Work effort, production, and consumption, the economics of Robinson Crusoe.
• 3. The behavior of households with markets for commodities and credit.
• 4. The demand for money.
• 5. The basic market-clearing model.
• 6. The labor market.
• 7. An introduction to inflation and interest rates.
• 8. Money, inflation, and interest rates in the market-clearing model.
• 9. Investment and real business cycles.
• 10. Unemployment.
• 11. Economic growth.
• 12. Government consumption and public services.
• 13. Taxes and transfers.
• 14. The public debt.
• 15. World markets in goods and credit.
• 16. Exchange rates.
• 17. Financial intermediation.
• 18. The interplay between nominal and real variables, what is the evidence?.
• 19. Money and business fluctuations in the market-clearing model.
• 20. The Keynesian theory of business fluctuations.