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Productivity Growth, Inflation, and Unemployment: The Collected Essays of Robert J. Gordon

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Productivity Growth, Inflation, and Unemployment: The Collected Essays of Robert J. Gordon
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Robert J. Gordon
Foreword by Robert M. Solow
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:520
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreEconomic theory and philosophy
Macroeconomics
International business
ISBN/Barcode 9780521531429
ClassificationsDewey:339
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 77 Tables, unspecified; 46 Line drawings, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 15 December 2003
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The 17 seminal essays by Robert J. Gordon collected here, including three previously unpublished works, offer sharply etched views on the principal topics of macroeconomics - growth, inflation, and unemployment. The author re-examines their salient points in a uniquely creative, accessible introduction that serves on its own as an introduction to modern macroeconomics. Each of the four parts into which the essays are grouped also offers a new introduction. The papers in Part I explore different key aspects of the history, theory, and measurement of productivity growth. The essays in Part II investigate the sources of business cycles and productivity fluctuations. Those in Part III cover the effects of supply shocks in macroeconomics. The final group presents empirical studies of the dynamics of inflation in the United States. The foreword by Nobel Laureate Robert M. Solow comments on the abiding importance of these essays drawn from 1968 to the present.

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