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`In most cases it is stimulating, if not instructive, to see well-known theories discussed from another perspective and in this respect the present book is no exception.'Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics Edmund Phelps is McVickar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University and Director of Columbia's Center on Capitalism and Society. He was the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics. He holds many honorary doctorates and professorships, including from the Université libre de Bruxelles, Tsinghua University, and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Science and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association. In 2008, he was named Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur and awarded the Premio Pico della Mirandola and the Kiel Global Economy Prize. In 2010, he was appointed Dean of New Huadu Business School at Minjiang University. In 2011, he received the Louise Blouin Creative Leadership Award and was named a Full Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in 2012 he was elected an Honorary Patron of the University Philosophical Society of Trinity College. Klappentext This book presents a comprehensive and authoritative summary of modern approaches to macroeconomics. Edmund Phelps has contributed much to macroeconomics himself, and here offers an original critique of these approaches. The book also provides a good survey of topics which feature prominently in the research agenda. This is the first in a promising new series of Ryde Lectures, which were established by Lund University in Sweden.A review of the whole field by a renowned macroeconomist Zusammenfassung This book presents a comprehensive and authoritative summary of modern approaches to macroeconomics. The book also provides a good survey of topics which feature prominently in the research agenda. This is the first in a promising new series of Ryde Lectures, which were established by Lund University in Sweden. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Macroeconomics of Keynes; The Monetarist Tradition; The New Classical School; The New Keynesian School; Supply-side Macroeconomics; Neoclassical and Neo-neoclassical Real Business Cycle Theory; Non-monetary Theories of Unemployment Fluctuation: the Structuralist School...
