Macroeconomia. Una prospettiva europea

The rating of 3/5 is a bit due to personal taste, as someone with an engineering background. This textbook has been a wonderful introduction to the commonly used IS/LM and AS/AD models so far (I'm only halfway through as of writing this review), and its text explains lucidly the minutiae workings of Leggi tutto

Le meilleur livre d'économie que j'ai eu l'occasion de lire! Le seul qui a réussi à me faire comprendre et à m'intéresser à la matière. Je le recommande à tous! Très facile d'accès : les graphiques aident beaucoup et sont bien expliqués et annotés. Parfait!

perfekte lektüre wenn man sich abends in den schlaf heulen möchte (aber war trotzdem interessant und gut geschrieben)

Плюсом этой книги является её ясная логическая структура. Бланшар делит экономику на три периода, для каждого из которых существуют свои истины и закономерности. Каждое уравнение выводится математически и обычно проверяется эмпирически с помощью эконометрических методов (чаще всего это линейная регр Leggi tutto

A canonical textbook that is probably one of the best out there on the subject. The author elucidates all relevant concepts with a clarity that makes the materials so transparent to beginners, but also with insights that really help readers connect theories and concepts to what they read in the news Leggi tutto

When markets are in equilibrium 😩

A good intermediate level book on macro. Contains lots of real-world data that supports models of inflation, growth, monetary and fiscal policies etc. Numerous examples from the recent crises. Sometimes I had a feeling that the 500 pages of the book could actually be fit into 100-150 pages. For exam Leggi tutto

I might actually end up with a very bad final grade on this course but this is a pretty good textbook (compared to my previous experience with Krugman). And yes, unfortunately, I am reading nothing but my textbooks this semester. Tough times.

The Book does a good Job, explaining Microoeconomics on a bigger stage. My Review is some what biased. If your Uni teaches the IS-LM-model, its a must buy. I can only emphasize how much this book helped me. Topics of the Book is: shortterm(IS-LM), midterm( Phillipscurve),longterm Solow-model and muc Leggi tutto