Macroeconomics
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Dimensions: 8.1 x 1.1 x 10.1 inches
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0133780589
Publisher: Pearson
Print length: 576 pages
Publication date: May 19, 2016
ISBN-13: 978-0133780581
Edition: 7th
subtitle: 7th Edition
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review: Editorial Reviews About the Author Olivier Blanchard A citizen of France, Olivier Blanchard has spent most of his professional life in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After obtaining his PhD in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977, he taught at Harvard University, returning to MIT in 1982. He was chair of the economics department from 1998 to 2003. In 2008, he took a leave of absence to be the Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. Since October 2015, he is the Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, in Washington. He also remains Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics emeritus. He has worked on a wide set of macroeconomic issues, from the role of monetary policy, to the nature of speculative bubbles, to the nature of the labor market and the determinants of unemployment, to transition in former communist countries, and to forces behind the recent global crisis. In the process, he has worked with numerous countries and international organizations. He is the author of many books and articles, including a graduate level textbook with Stanley Fischer. He is a past editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics , of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual , and founding editor of the AEJ Macroeconomics . He is a fellow and past council member of the Econometric Society, a past vice president of the American Economic Association, and a member of the American Academy of Sciences.