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Blanchard O., Macroeconomics. A European Perspective — 2010
Lectures on Macroeconomics provides the first comprehensive description and evaluation of macroeconomic theory in many years. While the authors' perspective is broad, they clearly state their assessment of what is important and what is not as they present the essence of macroeconomic theory today. The main purpose of Lectures on Macroeconomics is to characterize and explain fluctuations in output, unemployment and movement in prices. The most important fact of modern economic history is persistent long term growth, but as the book makes clear, this growth is far from steady. The authors analyze and explore these fluctuations. Topics include consumption and investment; the Overlapping Generations Model; money; multiple equilibria, bubbles, and stability; the role of nominal rigidities; competitive equilibrium business cycles, nominal rigidities and economic fluctuations, goods, labor and credit markets; and monetary and fiscal policy issues. Each of chapters 2 through 9 discusses models appropriate to the topic. Chapter 10 then draws on the previous chapters, asks which models are the workhorses of macroeconomics, and sets the models out in convenient form. A concluding chapter analyzes the goals of economic policy, monetary policy, fiscal policy, and dynamic inconsistency. Written as a text for graduate students with some background in macroeconomics, statistics, and econometrics, Lectures on Macroeconomics also presents topics in a self contained way that makes it a suitable reference for professional economists. Olivier Jean Blanchard and Stanley Fischer are both Professors of Economics at MIT.
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Blanchard O., Macroeconomics — 2002 (International Edition)
The most important conference on soil mechanics and foundation engineering, held every four years. All papers were selected and reviewed by the national societies of the ISSMFE. Nearly all papers in English. Topics: Terzaghi oration - Geotechnical aspects of earthquakes of 1995; Heritage lecture - Geotechnics in Germany; Geotechnical aspects of the Great Belt Project and of the Oeresund Projects; Reduction of the differential settlements of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City by means of under- excavation; Soil testing and ground property characterization; Recent developments in foundation techniques; Retaining structures and excavated slopes; Underground works in urban environment; Soil improvement and reinforcement; Waste disposal and contaminated sites; Recent developments in laboratory stress-strain testing; Ground property characterization by means of insitu tests; Interplay between physical and numerical models as applied in engineering practice.
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