[PEN-L:3868] Re: Teaching economics with Hall and Taylor vs "Truth"

[bill mitchell <ECWFM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
>Several people have mentioned the macro text by Carlin and Soskice. Can
>someone please post privately or to the list the publisher so I can get a
>review copy? Thanks.
>
>Blair


The full title is 	Wendy Carlin and David Soskice
			Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain: A Modern Approach
			to Employment, Inflation, and the Exchange Rate
			(Oxford University Press Inc, New York), 1990.

the New York is for you. Sydney for me.

Brief TOC:

Part 1:   The Background: Macro with Competitive Foundations
	
1. Classical Model
2. Keynes Model of Employment
3. Inflation and Unemployment: Friedman
4. New Classical Macro
5. Keynesian Counter-Attack: Fixed Price Models

Part II:   Imperfect Competition Macro in Closed Economy

6. Basic Imperfect Competition Model
7. Economic policy in ICM
8. Wage Bargaining and Policy Analysis

Part III: ICM in the OPen Econ.

9. IS/LM in open econ
10.  Competitivness and external balance - Swann-Salter approach
11. ICM in open economy
12. Exc. Rate as a policy instrument
13. Floating ERs
14. ER expectations
15. Other topics

Part IV: Macro models: styllized facts, and micro foundations

16. Stylized facts and models
17. IC labour markets   [YES, it is labour - they are english]
18. ICM - firms pricing and behaviour in Prod. Mkt
19. Hysteresis - Shifting NAIRUs


Hope that is helpful

kind regards
bill

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