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 | | Macroeconomy Today by Bradley R. Schiller ISBN-10: 9780073662770 ISBN-10: 0-07-366277-1 ISBN-13: 9780073662770 ISBN-13: 978-0-07-366277-0 Paperback 1999 McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Find Lowest Price |
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Book Description Brad Schiller's text is noted for its three great strengths: readability, policy orientation, and pedagogy. His accessible writing style engages students and brings some of the excitement of domestic and global economic news into the classroom. Schiller's three core questions - WHAT does the economy produce? HOW is it produced? And FOR WHOM does it produce? - help students quickly grasp the facts of economic life. THE MACROECONOMY TODAY examines the tension between free market demands and government intervention and challenges students to consider the implications of each. Every chapter starts and ends with a policy issue that reinforces that tension. This book pioneered the use of extensive pedagogy in Economics textbooks and continues and expands upon that tradition in this edition by its updated and thorough pedagogical devices. | ||
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Terrible Quality I've just started to try and read this book as part of my MBA, however the book is of terrible production quality. The pages are all out of order, and some are falling out as I turn over the pages. If you have this book mandated as part of a course as I did, you'll just have to live with it, otherwise choose another book that you don't have to hop around in just to get the pages in order. | ||
Not much glue Although the concepts are presented in a fairly understandable way, they are not tied together well for someone new to macroeconomics. Particularly annoying are the missing variable definitions for formulas. With Barron's as a supplement, it makes more sense. | ||
Macroeconomy Today This textbook is quite a comprehensive of introductory macroeconomics. Great graphs, well-explained, carefully thought out. The one downside is that it is quite idealistic, as one would expect of a neo-classical economist. The author does not recognize flaws in the theories nor does he acknowledge that the real world is not so cut-and-dry and ordered as we would be led to believe. However, as stated before, this is a wonderful introductory text for anyone who wants to understand the economy today. | ||