Chuck,
Thanks for the suggestion but I also teach a Marx theory class and a
History of Thought class. I cannot just turn the course in Intro to
Macroeconomics into the other courses. Well, I could since I have
tenure, but I don't think it is the right thing to do.
Nathan,
Your idea of using newspaper articles is interesting. These days
publishers allow an instructor to cut chapters and costs to students of
a textbook, so a compromise might be substantial cutting and serious use
of the press.
---
Right now I have nothing better than the O'Sullivan et al
/Macroeconomics/. At least it's Keynesian exposition (Chap. 11) is the
clearest I seen anywhere. And it has long-run before short-run and thus
is a good place to intro Marx. I understand that I can simply skip
Chap. 9 on AS-AD (which seems to me to be an intellectual fraud). Their
market penetration is not as high as Case, Fair, Oster, by the way.
Paul
On 10/28/2012 3:00 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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From: "Chuck Grimes"<[email protected]>
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Capital vol 1, Karl Marx, Ernst Mandel trans, Penguin Classics, 2004. Available
Amazon for 13.60, used from 8.65:
http://www.amazon.com/Capital-Critique-Political-Economy-Classics/dp/0140445706
It's also on pdf:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/volume35/index.htm
And, as a lecture series by David Harvey:
http://davidharvey.org/category/capital-vol-1/
I am only half joking. At least it's realistic, which is more than I can say
about the bits and pieces I've read of `modern' works.
On the bright side, it needs no post-2008 edition. The late chapters 25-33
detail out more or less what has happened in a crisis of what Harvey calls over
accumulation. This general theme opens vol 2, but I stopped at Chapter 5,
Circulation Time. ...
There are other virtues, like the fact, this is how businessmen and Wall Street
think and act---as well as what happens when Prometheus is unchained. There are
lots of interesting classical references to unpack for your humanities starved
students.
CG
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I know it takes much more effort, but I wouldn't assign a textbook at
all. Instead, I would pick out a selection of articles on
macroeconomic topics you think are important and assign them. Early in
the class, I would do things written at a newspaper level. towards the
middle I'd start easing them into journal articles.
Remember Keynes famously taught by coming into class with a newspaper,
reading an article out loud, then teaching the material necessary for
understanding
Also thinking at a social level, the extra demand you lay on them in
such a class might be balanced out by the fact that you aren't forcing
them to spend any money on books they will at most skim.
If this is impossible, I'd assign a history of economic thought text
like Hunt's or Lefteris Tsoulfidis's.
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