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The Macroeconomics Anti-Textbook
A Critical Thinker's Guide
Tony Myatt
- 408 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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The Macroeconomics Anti-Textbook
A Critical Thinker's Guide
Tony Myatt
About This Book
Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science, free from value judgements. This book demonstrates this to be a myth â 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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Preface: What is an Anti-Textbook?
- Acknowledgments
- About The Author
- Part 1 Introduction
- Part 2 Long-Run Economic Growth
- Part 3 Short-Run Fluctuations
- Part 4 Conclusion
- Postscript: Climate Change, The Covid Pandemic, and Genuinely Full Employment
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Copyright Page