TY - BOOK AU - Dorman,Peter TI - Macroeconomics: a fresh start T2 - Springer texts in business and economics SN - 9783642374401 (hard cover : alk. paper) U1 - 339 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Berlin : PB - Springer-Verlag, KW - Macroeconomics N1 - Includes index; 1 Introduction: Economic Growth and Development in Historical Perspective.- 2 Some Relevant Microeconomics -- 3 Accounts and Measurements -- 4 The Fundamental Macroeconomic Identities.- 5 MacroeconomicIssues: Output, Employment, Inflation, Financial Stability.- 6 Macroeconomic Adjustment.- 7 An Introduction to Money, Banksand Financial Systems.- 8 International Finance: A World of Many Moneys -- 9 International Trade in an Interdependent World -- 10 Classical Economic Doctrine and the Keynesian Challenge.- 11 Equilibrium National Income and Financial Balances in a Keynesian World.- 12 KeynesianFiscal Policy -- 13 Central Banks and Monetary Policy. Appendix: The IS-LM Model.- 14 Business Cycles -- 15 The Crucible of the 1970s -- 16The Rise and Fall of the Great Moderation.- 17 The Financial Crisis of 2008 and Its Aftermath -- Glossary -- Index N2 - The world has changed dramatically in recent years and so has the field of economics, but many introductory economics textbooks have remained stuck in the past. This book provides a new beginning for the study of macroeconomics, fundamentally international in its approach and emphasizing current debates and research trends. The first, mostly descriptive half of the book presents the main macroeconomic and financial ER -