Real World Macro

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Edition:
28th Edition
Date of publication:
May 2011
ISBN:
978-1-878585-86-8
Pages:
386
Price:
$34.95


Real World Macro, 28th edition, is a lively, thought-provoking supplement to introductory and intermediate macroeconomics textbooks. Real World Macro asks the questions that standard textbooks try to avoid: What's so great about growth? Is unemployment "natural?" Why should inequality matter?

Along with covering the basics—monetary and fiscal policy, productivity and investment, inflation and unemployment— Real World Macro also looks at international trade and finance, the debt crisis, and arguments for and against "free trade."

The thoroughly updated and revised 28th edition contains new chapter introductions reviewing the concepts examined in each article, discussion questions relating them to standard textbooks, and new articles addressing the latest real-world issues and controversies, including the global financial crisis and responses, deficits and debts, offshoring, the declining dollar, tax policy, and the persistence of the racial and gender gap in jobs and income.

Real World Macro's engaging articles are drawn from the pages of Dollars & Sense, the leading magazine of popular economics.

"The principles of economics books (yes, even mine) tend to be on the dull side and leave aspects of the economy and economics unchallenged. Real World Micro and Macro can spice up your course and lead students to ask the type of questions they should be asking."
—David Colander, Middlebury College

"Real World Macro's topical applications of macroeconomic analysis provide the clear, condensed critical perspective lacking in most macroeconomics texts."
—Richard D. Wolff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

"As textbooks become more conservative and less topical, I find that Dollars & Sense readers are more useful than ever in my undergraduate classes. They are jargon free, up-to-date, and inexpensive—as well as con­sistently and thoughtfully progressive. I recommend them highly."
—Robin Hahnel, American University