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- What type of the book? Reference, textbook, self-study course, (application) note collection, tutorial, experimentation instructions, travel report, etc.?
- This book is a textbook and reference for advanced undergraduate or begining graduate macroeconomics. It is based on notes taken at Cornell University in 2006-2007, although much of the material will be taken from a wide variety of sources. The errors are, of course, the fault of the authors.
- What scope? Where to start? Where to end? What is in, what is out?
- This book will endeavor first to cover all subjects that are likely to be found on a comprehensive exam for a graduate economics program. The culmination, indeed the body, of many of the chapters should be an analysis of a problem in its general form.
- To break down the work to be done on each chapter into four pieces, we have:
- First, the subject is introduced, with the back story.
- Second, the subject is shaped into a problem in a general form with only limited assumptions on functional forms, etc.
- Third, the solution to the problem in general form is worked out.
- Fourth, an example is discussed, graphics are added.
- I do not intend to discuss many examples or add many graphics to the book before April of 2007.
Table of Contents
[edit | edit source]Keynsian deman-side economics and multipliers User:Smmurphy/sandbox/Keynsian deman-side economics and multipliers
One sector models User:Smmurphy/sandbox/Optimal Growth
Two sector model User:Smmurphy/sandbox/Harrod-Johnson Diagram
Math Review User:Smmurphy/sandbox/Math Review
| Topic | Problem Set(s) | Paper(s) |
| Keynesian demand-side, and multipliers | 1 | |
| One sector production model (including with Cobb-Douglas production function) | 2 | |
| Profit maximization | 3.1 | |
| Asset valuation (One hoss shay, discrete time valuation) | 3.2, 4 | |
| Two-sector model and Harrod-Johnson diagram | 5 | A: Uzawa (1963), Shell (1969) |
| One-sector dynamics (Solow) | 6 | A: Solow (1965) |
| Burden of the debt, Solow with gov’t debt | 7 | |
| Phelps-Koopmans theorem and efficiency | A: Shell (1969) | |
| Calculus of variations | 8.2, 9 | Appendix |
| Pontyagin/Hamiltonian method | 9 | A: Shell (1969), B: Cass (1965), Appendix |
| Analysis of systems of differential equations: phase diagrams, stability | 8.1, 9, 13 | A: Shell (1969), B: Cass (1965), Appendix |
| Turnpike theorem | ||
| Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans (RCK) model and optimal growth, plus extensions (a tax, Leontief production function, etc) | 9 | A: Shell (1969), B: Cass (1965) |
| Optimal growth with endogenous savings | A: Shell (1969), B: Cass (1965) | |
| Pure exchange OG with money, and Gale diagram | 10 | D: Samuelson (1958), Shell (1971), Gale (1973), Cass et al (1979) |
| Pareto optimality | 10 | D: Cass et al (1979) |
| Ricardian equivalence | ||
| Analysis of difference equations | 11 | |
| OG model with production: Diamond model | 11 | D: Diamond (1965) |
| Tax policy: balanced, and bona fide | 12 | C: Balasko, Shell (1993) |
| New growth theory | 13 | E: Shell (1966), Shell (1973) |