Reflections on the development of modern macroeconomics - B Snowdon

Macroeconomic analysis has undergone profound and controversial changes during the past twenty-five years and, as such, economists have developed and evolved their approaches to the discipline.
Reflections on the Development of Modern Macroeconomics presents a collection of eight original essays, from leading scholars, each of which focuses on an important issue relating to these developments.These accessible, reflective surveys include:
to stabilize or not to stabilize: is that the question?
Brian Snowdon and Howard Vane the rhetoric and methodology of modern macroeconomics
Roger Backhouse how relevant is Keynesian economics today?
Keith Shaw what remains of the monetarist counter-revolution?
Thomas Mayer macroeconomics: before and after rational expectations
Patrick Minford the ups and downs of modern business cycle theory
Cillian Ryan and Andrew Mullineux the role of imperfect competition in new Keynesian economics
Huw Dixon politics and the macroeconomy: endogenous politicians and aggregate instability
Brian Snowdon and Howard VaneThis book will attract a wide readership among intermediate undergraduates, as well as postgraduates and lecturers in the fields of macroeconomics and the history of economic thought.