Macroeconomics 5th Fifth Canadian Edition by Olivier Blanchard & David W. Johnson
Print ISBN: 9780132164368, 0132164361
eText ISBN: 9780133076455, 0133076458
By: Olivier Blanchard; David H. Johnson
Publisher: Pearson Canada
Print ISBN: 9780132164368, 0132164361
eText ISBN: 9780133076455, 0133076458
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2013
Blanchard presents a unified and global view of macroeconomics, enabling students to see the connections between the short-run, medium-run, and long-run. Both rigorous and comprehensive, the Fifth Canadian edition of Blanchard and Johnson?s Intermediate Economics has the unique ability to clearly convey the ?life? of macroeconomics while presenting macroeconomics as a coherent whole. This new edition continues to provide an integrated view of macroeconomics allowing students to make sense of macroeconomic events.
A B O U T T H E A U T H O R S
Olivier Blanchard
Olivier Blanchard is the Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. He did his undergraduate work in France and received a Ph.D. in economics
from MIT in 1977. He taught at Harvard from 1977 to 1982 and has taught at MIT since 1983.
He has frequently received the award for best teacher in the department of economics. He is currently
on leave from MIT and serves as the Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund.
He has done research on many macroeconomic issues, including the effects of fi scal policy,
the role of expectations, price rigidities, speculative bubbles, unemployment in Western Europe,
transition in Eastern Europe, the role of labour market institutions, and the various aspects of the
current crisis. He has done work for many governments and many international organizations,
including the World Bank , the IMF , the OECD , the EU Commission , and the EBRD . He has
published over 150 articles and edited or written over 20 books, including Lectures on Macroeconomics
with Stanley Fischer.
He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a fellow of the
Econometric Society, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a past Vice
President of the American Economic Association.
He currently lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Noelle. He has three daughters: Marie,
Serena, and Giulia.
