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Lectures on Macroeconomics

Name: Lectures on Macroeconomics
Author: Olivier Jean Blanchard
ISBN: 9780262022835

by Olivier Jean Blanchard, Stanley Fischer

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Synopsis

The main purpose of Lectures on Macroeconomics is to characterize and explain fluctuations in output, unemployment and movement in prices.

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A text for graduate students with some background in macroeconomics, statistics, and econometrics. Describes and evaluates theories to explain fluctuations in the persistent long-term growth of modern economies, as detected in variations of output, unemployment, and movement of prices. Both authors are economics professors at MIT. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About the Author, Olivier Jean Blanchard

Olivier Jean Blanchard is Professor of Economics at MIT.

Stanley Fischer became Governor of the Bank of Israel in May of 2005. He has also served as Vice Chairman of Citigroup, Inc., First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, and Killian Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at MIT. Before his service in the IMF from 1994 to 2001, he was Killian Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at MIT.