Product Description
This much needed, dynamic new text in macroeconomics provides a slightly more rigorous exposition of macroeconomic theory and applications, with a distinctive real world approach and incorporates a wealth of case material on issues surrounding the EU. Written with an applications orientated perspective, G™rtner incorporates numerous graphs, diagrams and testing material to bring the subject to life. Written by a leading authority in the field, this book's overriding aim is to provide a more rigorous, comprehensive and applied approach to macroeconomics than is currently available.
From the Back Cover
This brand new text by Manfred Gartner, based on his successful
A Primer in Macroeconomics, takes a distinctive real world approach to macroeconomics, uniquely blending theory with applications.
Key features of Macroeconomics:
- Applies a rigorous, comprehensive approach to macroeconomics that is not available elsewhere.
- Integrated case material with extensive coverage of issues affecting Europe and the rest of the world.
- Full range of pedagogical features used to maximum effect to aid learning, including chapter objectives and summaries, graphs, diagrams, cases, margin notes, key terms and concepts, recommended reading, exercises to test understanding and applied problems for hands-on experience of empirical data.
- Full supplementary package, including an Instructor’s Manual and an innovativeCompanion Website.
Macroeconomics
is aimed at intermediate courses in macroeconomics and courses in European economics.
Praise for Gartner’s, A Primer in European Macroeconomics, Prentice Hall (ISBN: 0 13 268897 2):
‘I like this text a lot! It provides an original approach to macroeconomics which is consistently targeted on the key EU macroeconomic issues of today.’
Nick Adnett, Staffordshire University
‘The book is constantly in touch with the real world which I think is a remarkable achievement since it required lucid writing to combine analysis, education and real life in a slim volume.’
Dr Fred Ribbers, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Manfred Gartner is Professor of Economics at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.