IS-LM and Modern Macroeconomics

IS-LM is perhaps the prime example of `cognitive dissonance' in economics, and is problematic to many economists. On the one hand, the IS-LM model is still taught by many academic economists or they use it to derive the AD-AS approach. On the other hand,

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IS-LM and Modern Macroeconomics

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Warren Young Ben Zion Zilberfarb Department ofEconomics Bar Ban University Israel

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data IS-LM and modem macroeconomics / edited by Warren Young, Ben Zion Zilberfarb. p. cm. -- (Recent economic thought series) IncJudes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7923-7966-9 ISBN 978-94-010-0644-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-010-0644-6 1. IS-LM model (Macroeconomics) 2. Macroeconomics. I. Young, Warren, 1949- II. Zilberfarb, Benzion. III. Series. HB 172.5 .18 2000 339--dc21

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