Conversations with Leading Economists: Interpreting Modern Macroeconomics - Softcover

Snowdon, Brian; Vane, Howard R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840641495 ISBN 13: 9781840641493

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

This new book provides insights into the origins, development and current state of modern macroeconomics.
The reader's imagination is instantly captured, and the subject matter brought alive, through conversations with fourteen leading economists including five Nobel Laureates. These interviews shed new light on the controversies witnessed in the field of macroeconomic theory and policy, the way in which macroeconomics is taught and the history and methodology of macroeconomic research. Their illuminating and contrasting discussions provide students and scholars alike with a unique, highly accessible and enjoyable way to explore the ever-changing landscape of modern macroeconomics.

About this title

About the Author:

Brian Snowdon is Principal Lecturer in Economics in the School of Social, Political and Economic Sciences at the University of Northumbria.

Review:

Interviewing leading economists provides an effective way to comprehend the matrix in which their formal contributions arise. In providing these interviews Snowdon and Vane have performed a valuable service both for advanced students and professional economists.' -- Thomas Mayer, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis, US

This collection amounts to a great deal more than a series of entertaining conversations, though entertaining they certainly are. Snowdon and Vane provide their readers with a thoughtful introductory essay outlining the development of macroeconomics since the 1930s, and the themes that they deal with there occur and re-occur throughout their interviews, bringing considerable unity to the book as a whole. In Snowdon and Vane's view, macroeconomics is a serious subject that deals with substantive questions of great social importance, and its progress depends on vigorous and open debate among competing points of view. Student readers, of whom there ought to be many, will get from this book a sense of the infectious excitement that marks such debate, and even the most jaded of their teachers will be reminded of why, when all is said and done, there is no subject more worthwhile than economics. -- David Laidler, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Valuable on many levels. The more or less casual reader with a general sense for the issues...might read them for enjoyment. The student struggling to construct a coherent picture in time for exams will find them of tremendous value. I suspect that many professional economists will learn a great deal about every area but their own and perhaps even something about that. -- James Forder, The Business Economist

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1840641495
• ISBN 13: 9781840641493
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384