Lectures on Macroeconomics
Olivier Blanchard is Economic Counselor and Director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund. He is the author ofMacroeconomics, among other books, and coauthor ofLectures on Macroeconomics(MIT Press). David Romer is Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley, and author ofAdvanced Macroeconomics. Michael Spence, co-recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, is Professor Emeritus of Management at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and Professor of Economics at New York University's Stern School of Business. He served as Chairman of the Commission on Growth and Development from 2006 to 2010 (the life of the commission). He is the author ofThe Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World. Joseph Stiglitz, co-recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, is University Professor at Columbia University. He served as Chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers in the Clinton administration, and from 1997 to 2000 as World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President in Development Economics. He is the author ofFreefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the World Economy, Globalization and Its Discontents, and other books.Stanley Fischer is former Governor of the Bank of Israel and has been nominated as Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve]. He is the author ofIMF Essays from a Time of Crisis: The International Financial System, Stabilization, and Development(MIT Press).