Author : J. Macroeconomics,First Canadian Edition offers a new approach to this subject. Drawing upon their vast experience in teaching and research, the authors have written an intermediate macroeconomics book that sets the standard for books in this third millennium. Delong provides a streamlined presentation of material, traditional and modern, resulting in a more understandable and comprehensive book. These changes, while not radical are shifts in emphasis and changes of focus.
They do not require recasting of courses, but they are very important in bringing the organization of the book into line with what students learning macroeconomics today need to know. Economic development is viewed in terms of the long-run well-being of humanity, social stability, environmental sustainability, and just distribution of economic gains, not simply as the growth of GDP.
Furthermore, this textbook explicitly recognizes the complexity of economic development by linking economic activity to our broader social and natural environments. The textbook's unique feature is its focus on the natural environment. Both the historical effects of economic development on the environment and the environmental constraints on future economic development are thoroughly discussed in two chapters on environmental issues and policies. In fact, because economic development is defined in terms of economic, social, and environmental sustainability, the natural environment is included in discussions throughout the book.
The textbook is inter-disciplinary: knowledge from fields such as sociology, psychology, political science, economic history, and ecology is called on to enhance the economic analysis. A thorough historical account of the development of the principal paradigms of economic development is also included, and the important issues of institutional development and cultural change merit their own chapters.
Two chapters on technological change holistically focus on production technologies as well as the dynamic performance of entire economic, social, and ecological systems. Also, the important relationship between economic development and globalization is presented in three chapters on international trade, international finance and investment, and immigration from both orthodox and heterodox perspectives.
However, most analytical discussions are built around diagrams in order to make the text accessible to students with a variety of social science backgrounds. An Instructor's Manual is available to professors who adopt the text. Additional Product Features Table of Content. Show More Show Less. New New. No ratings or reviews yet No ratings or reviews yet.
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