04306cam a2200829 i 4500 vtls000078782 MTX m eo d cr cn |||m|||a 160715s2015 nyu foab 001 0 eng d 9781606495315 e-book 9781606495308 paperback (OCoLC)895876185 (CaBNVSL)swl00404331 201607151122 staff 201605041220 admin CaBNVSL eng rda CaBNVSL CaBNVSL HB172.5 .S626 2015 339 23 Ebook Snarr, Hal W., author. 114523 Learning macroeconomic principles using MAPLE / Hal W. Snarr. First edition. New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, 2015. 1 online resource (xii, 137 pages) text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Economics collection, 2163-7628 Part of: 2014 digital library. Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-134) and index. 1. How to Use MAPLE -- 2. Foundations of macroeconomics -- 3. Aggregate expenditure -- 4. The aggregate market model -- 5. Fiscal policy -- 6. Monetary policy -- 7. What have we learned? -- About the author -- References -- Index. Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. Economics has been dubbed the "dismal science" since Thomas Carlyle coined the phrase in 1849. The 2008 presidential candidate who said, "Economics is something that I've really never understood," probably sides with this view. So, why is economics so dismal to so many? Is it because it has become too mathematical? Is it because traditional textbooks fail to connect topics and models in a concise, cohesive, and meaningful way? Is it because the computer simulations that are used to teach economic principles "stifle students' imagination, contribute to a dependent learning style, and fail to stimulate interest in the subject matter" (Wetzstein 1988)? Or, is it because economists from different schools of economic thought rarely agree on anything? This book uses MAPLE and the simulation models that I developed in Learning Basic Macroeconomics (2014) to make teaching or learning economics not so dismal. MAPLE is ideally suited for this because it allows users to assemble and systematically combine the various models that form the aggregate market model, frees users from doing tedious calculations and algebraic manipulations, and is as easy to use as Microsoft Word. Building and analyzing the macroeconomic model using MAPLE is a fun way to learn the dismal science. Also available in print. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader. Title from PDF title page (viewed on November 16, 2014). Maple (Computer file) 114524 Macroeconomics Computer simulation. 114525 aggregate demand aggregate expenditure Austrian economics computer simulation consumption function crowding-out demand and supply discount rate dismal science fiscal policy fiscal policy lags fiscal policy multipliers fractional reserve banking free trade interest on reserves long run aggregate supply maple 18 monetary policy open market operations rational expectations required reserves ratio short run aggregate supply supply-side economics Chicago school classical school federal funds market keynesian school Print version: 9781606495308 2014 digital library. 114507 Economics collection. 2163-7628 114465 http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/BEPB0000345.html 10 75346 75346