This Primer on Macroeconomics has been long in the writing. It has been shaped by after-class discussions with students over many years while we tried to break down economics into understandable concepts and examples. A former student, Dr. Jeff Edwards, now Chairman of the Economic Department at North Carolina A&T State University, requested that I write an introductory text, and advised “Make it like your lectures.”
No book, at least no book that I’m capable of writing, can capture the immediacy and intimacy of a classroom environment but, equally, no classroom environment permits the opportunity to dwell on detail quite as effectively as the pages of a book. As with everything in economics, there are trade-offs.
I’ve devised this ...
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