The Great Depression of the 1930s gave birth to a branch of economics that in 1933 Ragnar Frisch christened macroeconomics. Over the decades that followed up to the present, the interactions of economic events, economic policy, and macroeconomic theory have created a fascinating story integral to the life and politics of national economies around the world. This book recounts that story. It brings together three strands of activities and trends: the economic events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that defined the economic problems facing the nation, policymakers, and economists; the responses of economists who brought the accumulated knowledge of the profession to bear on these problems; and the successes and failures of these policies as they reshaped the economic landscape and defined new sets of problems to be analyzed by macroeconomic theory. This highly readable book presents an unconventional perspective on macroeconomics - the interplay of theory and policy in a historical context.

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The Great Depression and Mr. Keynes Keynes, John Maynard .- The Post-War Economic Order.- Laying the Foundations of Keynesian Economics.- Keynesian Economics in Action.- Macroeconomics of an Open Economy.- The Collapse of Post-War International Economic Order.- The New Classical New Classical Revolt Against Activist Economic Policy.- Business Cycles Business Cycles : Evidence, Theory, and Policy.- Money, Monetary Policy, and Monetarism Monetarism .- Government Budget and Fiscal Policy.- The Reagan- Reagan, President Ronal Thatcher Thatcher, Margaret Revolution Reagan-Thatcher Revolution : The Age of Hayek Hayek, Friedrich and Schumpeter Schumpeter, Joseph .- Macroeconomics of Globalized Economies.- The Financial and Economic Crisis of 2007-2009.