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978 1 48510 273 1 978 1 48510 493 3 4e 2014
598 PAGES
ZAR R678.00 ZAR R678.00
How to Think and Reason in Macroeconomics
F FOURIE & P BURGER
Completely up-to-date and comprehensive, this 4th edition prepares you to analyse actual macroeconomic events and policy in a globalised context. It combines well-informed intuitive understanding with solid economic theory plus a concrete understanding of South African economic processes, institutions and data. The new edition also covers the global financial crisis, the Euro crisis and the Eskom crisis, all analysed using macroeconomic theory.
This book encourages you to develop reasoning skills and apply the theory to actual events. It provides novel insights into policy institutions, objectives and processes, notably with regard to inflation, unemployment and growth, as well as initiatives such as the National Development Plan. It also integrates the development context of macroeconomic policy in South Africa as well as the broader African context.
KEY FEATURES
• Excellent analytical diagrams plus animations of diagrams (available on the web) that provide new levels of insight into economic dynamics
• New in-depth case studies of the global financial crisis, the Euro crisis, Quantitative Easing, and the impact of Eskom’s problems on the South African economy.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Frederick Fourie has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, has been Professor of Economics at the University of the Free State since 1982 and was appointed Distinguished Professor in 1996. He has published widely, both in South Africa and abroad. From 1992 to 1994 he was head of the Unit for Fiscal Analysis at the Treasury in Pretoria, and from 2003 to 2008 the Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State. Currently he is Research Co-ordinator of the Research Project on Employment, Income Distribution and Inclusive Growth (REDI3x3), based at the University of Cape Town. He also is the editor of the online policy forum Econ3x3.
Philippe Burger has a PhD in Economics from the University of the Free State where he now is Professor of Economics and Chairperson of the Department of Economics. From September 2012 to September 2014 he was President of the Economic Society of South Africa. In 2014 he was appointed as a member of South African Statistics Council. He is a National Research Foundation rated researcher and has been a research consultant to the OECD and visiting scholar at the IMF. He is the 2002 recipient of the Founder’s Medal of the Economic Society of South Africa for the best PhD thesis and was associate editor of the South African Journal of Economics.
SUITABLE FOR
• Second-year Macroeconomics courses
• Second-year or third-year Macroeconomic Policy courses
• MBA Macroeconomics courses and practising economists.
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