📗 Libro en inglés THE MACROECONOMICS ANTI-TEXTBOOK

Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science free from value judgements This book demonstrates this to be a myth one which serves to make such textbooks not only off puttingly bland but also dangerously misleading in their justification of the status quo and neglect of alternatives In this much needed companion volume to the popular Microeconomics Anti Textbook Tony Myatt reveals how the blind spots and methodological problems present in microeconomics continue to exert their influence in mainstream macroeconomics From a flawed conception of the labour market to a Pollyana view of the financial sector macroeconomic principles as they are set out in conventional undergraduate textbooks consistently fail to set out a realistic useful or equitable framework for understanding the world By summarising and then critically evaluating the major topics found in a typical macroeconomics textbook the Anti Textbook lays bare their sins of omission and commission showing where hidden value judgements are made and when contrary evidence and alternative theories are ignored The Macroeconomics Anti Textbook is the student s essential guide to decoding mainstream macroeconomic textbooks and demonstrating how real world economics are much more interesti