A Course in Modern Macroeconomics

This textbook started as a collection of the teaching notes I used at Stanford. It tries to introduce students to the ideas and way of thinking of modern macroeconomics in a unified way that is accessible with a moderate amount of maths.

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Kurlat has filled an essential void by producing a text, accessible to undergraduates with a moderate amount of mathematical training, that introduces students to the frontier of modern macroeconomics. I will be teaching from it this year and recommend it to instructors at the intermediate or masters level and to mathematically-inclined students who want to learn what macroeconomics is all about.

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University

This outstanding book covers modern macroeconomic ideas with extreme rigor but without heavy math and keeping the focus on real-world applications and policy implications. Readers will find a very accessible coverage of microeconomic foundations and a thoughtful treatment of long-run and short-run macroeconomic models. Every instructor who teaches undergraduate macroeconomics at an intermediate or advanced level should consider using this book.

Alp Simsek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A fantastic introduction to macroeconomics for advanced undergraduates. I use it as background reading for my masters level course at the LSE on growth as well. What makes the book stand out is a very accessible, indeed, a sparkling conversational style combined with analytical rigour and a masterly overview of the literature. It is rare to find a textbook that is so lucidly written and yet analytically so solid.

Maitreesh Ghatak, London School of Economics