A Quick Refresher Course in Macroeconomics

N. Gregory Mankiw

No 3256, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper presents a non-technical discussion of some of the important developments in macroeconomics over the past twenty years. It considers three broad categories of research. First, it discusses how the notion of rational expectations has affected economists' views on the role of economic policy, the debate over rules versus discretion, and empirical work in macroeconomics Second, it discusses various new classical approaches to the business cycle, including imperfect information theories, real business cycle theories, and sectoral shift theories. Third, it discusses various new Keynesian approaches to the business cycle, includes theories based on general disequilibrium, labor contracting, and menu costs.

Date: 1990-02
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Published as Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. XXVIII, No. 4, pp. 1645-1660, (December 1990).

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