TY  - BOOK
AU  - Snarr,Hal W.
TI  - Learning macroeconomic principles using MAPLE /Hal W. Snarr
T2  - Economics collection,
SN  - 9781606495315
AV  - HB172 .L437 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017)
PB  - Business Expert Press
KW  - Maple (Computer file)
KW  - Macroeconomics
KW  - Computer simulation
KW  - aggregate demand
KW  - aggregate expenditure
KW  - Austrian economics
KW  - computer simulation
KW  - consumption function
KW  - crowding-out
KW  - demand and supply
KW  - discount rate
KW  - dismal science fiscal policy
KW  - fiscal policy lags
KW  - fiscal policy multipliers
KW  - fractional reserve banking
KW  - free trade
KW  - interest on reserves
KW  - long run aggregate supply
KW  - maple 18
KW  - monetary policy
KW  - open market operations
KW  - rational expectations
KW  - required reserves ratio
KW  - short run aggregate supply
KW  - supply-side economics
KW  - Chicago school
KW  - classical school
KW  - federal funds market
KW  - keynesian school
N1  - Part of: 2014 digital library; 1 (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; 2; b; Also available in printing
N2  - 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
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