The Macroeconomics Anti-Textbook
eBook - ePub

The Macroeconomics Anti-Textbook

A Critical Thinker's Guide

  1. 408 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Macroeconomics Anti-Textbook

A Critical Thinker's Guide

About this book

Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science, free from value judgements. This book demonstrates this to be a myth – one which serves to make such textbooks not only off-puttingly bland, but also dangerously misleading in their justification of the status quo and neglect of alternatives. In this much-needed companion volume to the popular Microeconomics Anti-Textbook, Tony Myatt reveals how the blind spots and methodological problems present in microeconomics continue to exert their influence in mainstream macroeconomics. From a flawed conception of the labour market, to a Pollyana view of the financial sector, macroeconomic principles as they are set out in conventional undergraduate textbooks consistently fail to set out a realistic, useful, or equitable framework for understanding the world. By summarising and then critically evaluating the major topics found in a typical macroeconomics textbook, the Anti-Textbook lays bare their sins of omission and commission, showing where hidden value judgements are made and when contrary evidence and alternative theories are ignored. The Macroeconomics Anti-Textbook is the student's essential guide to decoding mainstream macroeconomic textbooks, and demonstrating how real-world economics are much more interesting than most economists are willing to let on.

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Information

Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781350323711
eBook ISBN
9781350323735
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Tables and Figures
  6. Preface: What is an Anti-Textbook?
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. About The Author
  9. Part 1 Introduction
  10. Part 2 Long-Run Economic Growth
  11. Part 3 Short-Run Fluctuations
  12. Part 4 Conclusion
  13. Postscript: Climate Change, The Covid Pandemic, and Genuinely Full Employment
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index
  17. Copyright Page