Macroeconomics: A Critical Companion - Paperback

by Ben Fine (Joint Author), Ourania Dimakou (Joint Author)

Macroeconomics is your guide to how economics shape how the world functions today. But too often our understanding is based on orthodox, dogmatic analysis. This distinctive book draws upon years of critical questioning and teaching and exposes how macroeconomic theory has evolved from its origins to its current impoverished and extreme state. Moving from the Keynesian Revolution to the Monetarist Counter-Revolution, through to New Classical Economics and New Consensus Macroeconomics, the authors both elaborate and question the methods and content of macroeconomic theory at a level appropriate for both undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Macroeconomics provides a unique alternative to the multitude of standard textbooks by locating macroeconomic theory in its own history. It will be perfect for those studying macroeconomics, as well as for those looking for a new way to understand our increasingly complicated economic system. It is accompanied by a counterpart Microeconomics: A Critical Companion.

Author Biography

Ben Fine is professor of economics at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. He is the co-author of Marx's Capital, also published by Pluto Press, and From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics. Ourania Dimakou is lecturer in economics at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.