

Macroeconomics
Author: Felipe B. Larrain
Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
Narrator: Gary Tiedemann
Unabridged: 6 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Ascent Audio
Published: 03/17/2020
Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics
Synopsis
The author, an academic economist and two-time Chilean Finance Minister, devotes a substantial part of his analysis to economic development, explaining why some countries achieve continuing economic growth while others become stagnant. He discusses the links between economic activity and employment; employment and unemployment rates; factors behind economic growth; money, inflation, and exchange rate systems; fiscal deficits; balance of payment crises; consumption and savings; investment decisions; fiscal policy; and the process of globalization and its macroeconomic implications.