Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know | 
| Author: David A. Moss
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 189
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1422101797
Dewey Decimal Number: 339
EAN: 9781422101797
ASIN: 1422101797
Publication Date: July 5, 2007
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Product Description
Now more than ever before, executives and managers need to understand their larger economic context. In A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, David Moss leverages his many years of teaching experience at Harvard Business School to lay out important macroeconomic concepts in engaging, clear, and concise terms. In a simple and intuitive way, he breaks down the ideas into output, money, and expectations. In addition, Moss introduces powerful tools for interpreting the big-picture economic developments that shape events in the contemporary business arena. Detailed examples are also drawn from history to illuminate important concepts.
This book is destined to become a staple in MBA courses as well as the go-to resource for executives and managers at all levels seeking to brush up on their knowledge of macroeconomic dynamics.
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 Exactly what the title promises January 1, 2008
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
It is rare to find a book so aptly described by its title as "A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics." The book really is concise; the text is only 141 pages long, and even that number might give an exaggerated impression because there are fairly wide margins and two blank pages between each chapter, as well as numerous graphs and tables. Yet in those 141 pages, this guidebook covers the essentials of output and GDP accounting, the role of money, interest and expectations in monetary policy and business cycles, a brief monetary history of the United States, as well as the basics of international economics: why countries trade, how to read a balance of payments statement, and what sorts of forces move exchange rates.
The tables and charts scattered throughout the book provide excellent intuition for understanding international comparisons of GDP, the history of business cycles, or whatever topic is presently at hand. All of these media are well referenced in the text, clearly explained, and contain up-to-date information. Moss also illustrates some concepts, such as the Ricardian theory of comparative advantage, with examples of his own; these too are excellent.
What impresses me most about the book is that Moss seems to have gotten the technical level just right: this book has none of the anecdote-ridden flakiness so common to journalistic writing about economics, nor is it ponderous or over-burdened with theory. This guide will aptly explain the essentials of the field to those who are curious; I know of no other book like it, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. If you have any lingering doubts (you shouldn't) just click on the "Search Inside" icon at the top of the page, and click "Surprise Me" to get a random sample of Moss's writing.
 Good short explanation of macroeconomics December 3, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book explain macroeconomics in a very good short way, like the tittle says, what a manager, executives, and students need to know, but not for a student that is getting an Economics degree. It shows problems that some countries had without knowing about, and prevent investors how to spot em before loosing they shirts like what happen in mexico in 1994.
I think is a good book for Investors or whomever is running a company.
BTW, if someone that goes or went to Harverd Business School and that it's getting or got an Economics degree, (BA, Ph.D., etc.), can you please let me know what Books are being used from the start until the end. Since i can't go to Harvard at least i will like to get the books to study on my own. Thank you.
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