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Summary: Fine *textbook* but.....
Review: This publication is obviously a quite thought-out textbook and is well-organized in its content. However, I do _not_ recommend it as a review text for those somewhat weak in mathematics. The book is loaded with graphs and equations that might thwart those former students wishing to review their macroeconomics or just desiring a good home reference for same. For neophytes or those long out of college (30-years-plus in my case), I suggest a good basic "principles of economics" text (and maybe some remedial algebra books and/or classes) before taking on more (relatively) advanced works such as this. However, the book is nevertheless interesting and actually has quite a few graphs, etc easily understandable by any reasonably intelligent person.
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Summary: undergrad macro text full of intuitions
Review: Unlike the graduate textbook (Lectures on Macroeconomics), this undergraduate textbook is full of economic intuitions, comparable to microeconomic textbooks of Varian's.
Especially, if you have an interest in Macroeconometic practices (books such as Ray Fair's...), Blanchard's is much better than Mankiw's, I believe.
First edition contained the exciting (but short...) section on identification problem and differentiation between causality and correlation. Those issues are of much more importance than they look when you actually "do" something with the macroeconmic issues.
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Summary: Ok-good-book.....but
Review: Well I have read the book and I find it good...perhaps even a 5-star but I give it 4 stars because!!! After end reading the book and I wanted to do the "questions and problems" in the book to make sure I understood it......then I found out that there is no key/solusions guide......have can a book with 600 pages and about 60 pages of "questions and problems" not have a key!!!!!! But IF I have understood the book...then I find it good!!!!
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