Macroeconomics: A Critical Companion (IIPPE)

Macroeconomics is fundamental to our understanding of how the world functions today. But too often our understanding is based on orthodox, canonized analysis. In this rule-breaking book, Ben Fine and Ourania Dimakou provides an engaging, heterodox primer for those interested in an alternative to mainstream macroeconomic theory and history. From classical theory to the Keynesian revolution and more modern forms including the Monetarist counterrevolution, New Classical Fundamentalism, and New Consensus Macroeconomics, Fine and Dimakou rigorously and comprehensively lay out the theories of mainstream economists, warts and all.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Macroeconomy versus Macroeconomics?
Chapter 2. Accelerator-Multiplier: Stabbing the Knife-Edge in the Back?
Chapter 3. Classical Dichotomies
Chapter 4. Growth Theories: Old, New or More of the Same?
Chapter 5. The Keynesian Revolutions
Chapter 6. Post-Keynesian Dilemmas
Chapter 7. Keynesian Revolution: What Keynes, What Revolution?
Chapter 8. From Monetarist Counter-Revolution to Fundamentalism
Chapter 9. Forging the Consensus: Monetary Policy and Real Business Cycle Theory
Chapter 10. From New Classical Fundamentalism to New Nonsensus Macroeconomics
Chapter 11. International Macro?
Chapter 12. The Enigmas of Overshooting
Chapter 13. Whither Macroeconomics?