Macroeconomics

Editorial Reviews Review Reconstructing Macroeconomics is a stunning intellectual achievement. It surveys an astonishing range of macroeconomic problems and approaches in a compact, coherent critical framework with unfailing depth, wit, and subtlety. Lance Taylor’s pathbreaking work in structural macroeconomics and econometrics sets challenging standards of rigor, realism, and insight for the field. Taylor shows why the structuralist and Keynesian insistence on putting accounting consistency, income distribution, and aggregate demand at the center of macroeconomic analysis is indispensable to understanding real-world macroeconomic events in both developing and developed economies. The book is full of new results, modeling techniques, and shrewd suggestions for further research. Taylor’s ... Read Full Story

In an email I wrote to my Harvard Econ-10ab professor during the summer, Dr. James Medoff: Esteemed Prof. Medoff, I am David Akinin, the student from Venezuela, to whom you wrote a dedication in "The Indebted Society" two days ago. As you requested of me this morning, I am sending you an email explaining more in depth my point about why France still has such a high unemployment, and over time, how it has increased significantly. I hope you find my analysis assertive and intuitive, and that you can make utilization of it for the comming semesters. Looking at the figures that Mrs. Rebecca ... Read Full Story

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