my impression is that all 'intro' texts are principles
texts with both micro and macro. I can't remember
seeing one that was just one or the other that was
not intermediate.
mbs
It is an intermediate text.
Galbraith and Darity?
It's time for me to start looking for another
there was a Heilbroner and LThurow, if memory serves.
no Heilbroner and Galbraith.
mbs
I remember really liking a big reader-friendly exercise in
introductory
theoretical explanation and critique - so well written and
laid out was it
that stuff of which I had never been able to make sense
Paul Phillips wrote:
Lou, when was Greg last in Yugoslavia?
Paul
Less than a year ago. He went over with a delegation led by Michael
Parenti. Parenti has a book on the war against Yugoslavia that is about to
be published. Greg has a manuscript on the trip that he presented to
several publishers,
Max
If you check out the following URL you'll see a Heilbroner and Galbraith...
http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/textbooks/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?userid=4
646AWZCQGmscssid=T7E1C13EF2SR2H6A0017QUE8A38K2XUBisbn=0139333592
I can't find anything on the Prentice Hall website though.
Michael K.
What do folks think of N. Gregory Mankiw's Macro book? It got raves on Amazon.
Christian
What do folks think of N. Gregory Mankiw's Macro book? It got raves on
Amazon.Christian
I've got it. Picked it up for free at the AEA meetings.
When I searched thru it for a discussion of GDP accounting,
I could find nothing. Which is not promising, IMO.
mbs
Mankiw is pure fluff. He got a $1 million bonus to write it. It gives
the students a sense that they are going to learn something profound, but
then he just waves his hand.
Students like it because it is not very meaty. They are vegetarians -- at
least here in Ca.
What do folks think of
I think Peter D is looking for a textbook like Colander's which has a different view of
AS/AD, one that's more respectable intellectually.
Unfortunately, the most recent edition "surrenders" on this issue. It might still be
good.
Fusfeld used to have a textbook with the K-cross instead of
Peter, what is your beef with AS? Is is the microfoundations generally offered
behind it or is it something else?
I use AS/AD but offer my own explanations for why, sometimes, prices rise as
output grows (due to the behavior of businesses) that doesn't rely on standard
microfoundations.
Eric
A chain of advanced radar stations is a necessary part of
Clinton / Gore / Bush's plans for obeying to their weapons
producing masters by establishing the notorious anti-missile
NMD project and thereby start a new profitable arms race.
One of the indispensable radar stations is the Thule
I recently got some e-mail from the development/environment folks at Tufts (is
someone like Frank Ackerman running this?) about a text they were working on.
I can't remember the level of the text (or even if it was micro or macro or
both) but it is critical of the mainstream. The mail message
David Collander told me that after he published his first edition, his publisher told
him the
lack of the AS/AD cost him 10,000 sales. He then added it.
Why should the demand for goods go down if prices rise? Only because the AD curve
assumes
that the money supply is constant, causing
JBR Jr. wrote: I would note
more generally that the new "econophysics" movement is
full of a lot of people who don't know any economics and
think they are "rebuilding economics from the ground up,"
when all they are doing is exhibiting their ignorance of the
economics literature.
=
Not to
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Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 8:42 AM
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JBR Jr. wrote: I would note
more generally that
Someplace in Marx's works there is a passage in which he specifically
mocks the capitalist tendency to explain a phenomenon by explaining its
origins. Can anyone identify that passage for me? It may even be in Vol.
1 of *Capital*.
Carrol
Yesterday I spent quite a bit of time -- more than an hour -- trying to
get a change in my phone service. As I worked through the options --
usually one through five -- of the phone company, which ever one I
picked got me to another set of one-through-five, etc. And when I
finally got to the
Christian,
Major vomitorium. This is the book by a "Keynesian"
that reduces Keynes to a few boxes in the back. It is
all pure New Classical growth theory, the most stupid
orthodoxy brought down to the intro level. Even though
at the graduate and research levels, people are moving
beyond
Thanks. Any you can recommend? (The Galbraith and Darity is out of print and not in my
library.)
-Christian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christian,
Major vomitorium. This is the book by a "Keynesian"
that reduces Keynes to a few boxes in the back. It is
all pure New Classical growth
Michael,
Heck, there are all kinds of perfectly reasonable
arguments why the AD curve should slope down
besides the Keynes effect through interest rates
via the fixed money supply. They include the
international substitution effect, admittedly pretty
weak, and the real balance effect, also
Christian,
Unsure. I had adopted Colander, but just since
sending out the last message finally got a copy and
took a close look at it. He has removed all kinds
of things like problems of less developed countries.
I must say, I am very disappointed. Will not use it again.
Don't know what
Who wrote this: "Economics is surely the only discipline in which a scholar
can win the Nobel Prize for proving the existence of that which plainly does
not exist."
Ian
I saw that Paul gave one possible example. There are many. Here is one
that I used in my book on Marx's Crises Theories
According to Torrens: In the first stone which the savage flings at the
wild animal he pursues, in the first stick that he seizes to strike down the
fruit which hangs above
Albert Hirshman said somethin like that, but not quite: I paraphrased it this
way in my Natural Instability book.
In the sciences, joint Nobel Prizes are given to collaborators, where in
economics, the prize is sometimes split between two persons who have worked to
disprove the other's work
OK, I will give a quick reply. I posted several messages on this subject in
the mid '90s, responding to the justifications for the two curves then extant.
At that time, people were deriving the AD curve from an assumption about fixed
nominal money supply and the AS curve from a claim that
For micro I'm using Roger McCain's on-line text. The price is very right...
Peter
Max Sawicky wrote:
If you check out the following URL you'll see a Heilbroner and Galbraith...
http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/textbooks/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?userid=4
The dissenting mainstreamish texts (Fusfeld, Shepherd) have all been extinguished. I
found
Colander very difficult to use -- he goes off on tangents and pontificates too much.
That may
work well in his classroom, but it doesn't work well with *my* tangents and
pontifications...
Peter
Peter, I agree that AS/AD a pseudo-explanation. It appeals to common sense; most
students have already seen the micro SD curves. Even if it is nonsense, it
provides the correct ideological answer.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel.
At 03:11 PM 08/25/2000 -0400, you wrote:
I had adopted Colander, but just since
sending out the last message finally got a copy and
took a close look at it. He has removed all kinds
of things like problems of less developed countries.
I must say, I am very disappointed. Will not use it again.
At 02:33 PM 08/25/2000 -0400, you wrote:
Thanks. Any you can recommend? (The Galbraith and Darity is out of print
and not in my library.)
are there _any_ good intermediate macro books out there?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
"Is it peace or is it Prozac?" --
I appreciated what Gene Coyle wrote. Here is a short section from my new
book, Transcending the Economy.
The Metered Life
With the spread of the Billing Economy, corporations attempt to maximize
their profits by debundling their products ?? that is, by separating a
transaction into a number of
I wrote:
"Of course, a soft landing is _possible_. I don't think it's likely,
though, since a slowdown tends to squash investment, via the accelerator
effect."
Adam wrote:
Does anyone think that the economies investment characteristics have been
structurally changed by the information
F.M. Scherer; referring to General Equilibrium in "New Perspectives on
Economic Growth and Technological Innovation"
Is economics a discipline where math is consciously used for fictive
purposes [as in GE] or is it just because economists have worse luck at
finding/creating math that refers to
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Brockway, Lucille. 1979. Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British
Royal Botanic Gardens (New York: Academic Press). This earlier book deals with
the same subject.
Louis Proyect wrote:
From the preface to Richard Drayton's newly published "Nature's Government:
Science,
Perhaps Carrol means the following footnote in Chapter 15,
the machinery chapter, of Capital I. Here Marx writes:
The English, who have a tendency to look upon the earliest
form of appearance of a thing as the cause of its existence, are in the
habit of attributing the long hours of work in
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