Advanced Macroeconomics
Author: David Romer
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ISBN: 0072318554
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin (20 December, 2000)
Sales Rank: 80,154
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
The best graduate macroeconomics textbook
This book (2nd edition) is fine. It covers all important macroeconomics topics (economic growth, business cycles, aggregate demand -consumption and investment-, labor markets and economic policy -monetary and fiscal policy-). It is up-to-date and its math is not very difficult to follow. In a nutshell, it is a must for a thorough understanding of modern macroeconomics. By the way, the 1st edition was translated to French, Japanese, Chinese, Greek, and Polish.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent addition to a macro lineup
Romer concisely constructed a book on advanced macro theory that complements well with Barro/Sala-i-Martin, and Blanchard/Fischer. The chapters are well-written and useful. Another reviewer did assert that there is too much math and not enough "explanation". Well, grad level economics is laden with math, however, the idea with Romer is to use the math to find the intuition that we should already know from undergraduate work. the book is well-divided between growth theory and money/employment issues. I will admit that I believe it is somewhat weak in open-economy, but there are a number of books that specialize in that anyway. Another must have for econ grad students.
Rating: 1 out of 5
disappointment
I regret to say that this is not a good accompaniment for my graduate macroeconomics class. I thought I could somehow get some mileage out of this book, but as I read it I found out that its lack of technical details and rigor make my lecture notes look superior. I was misled to think that this is a great textbook through the early positive reviews below, that's why I bought it. Nevertheless, the empirical content is more than enough to satisfy one's curiosity, but I think it is not worthwhile to study advanced macroeconomics without learning fully the necessary theories and the accompanying mathematical techniques. This textbook must not be the choice for a core graduate level macroeconomics class; it's wordiness is comparable to the undergraduate textbook "Intermediate Microeconomics" text by Varian. It is readable of course, when you want to pass the time, but it won't do for a graduate level text. I'm disappointed because this is the second edition already but still the author stuck to the same way of presentation. Perhaps the only differences between the first and the second edition are the empirical data sets and a new chapter and nothing else. The first three chapters and chapter 7 of Obstfeld and Rogoff's treatise, "Foundations of International Macroeconomics," Barro and Sala-i-Martin's, "Economic Growth," and the chapters 2,3 and 4 of Blanchard and Fischer's, "Lectures in Macroeconomics," provide a more comprehensive view of modern acroeconomics. Similar Products
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