I used the Darby text when I first started teaching. It made the students "cry." Very unintuitive.

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:31 PM, David L Hammes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Michael Darby (back in the 1970s) and Robert Barro (among others) have produced distinctly non-Keynesian intermediate macro textbooks that had some success in the market trying to move the position of the profession via what we teach to undergraduates.
They're academic work should obviously count as well.
David Hammes


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From: Steve Kates <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, December 2, 2011 3:32 am
Subject: [SHOE] Critics of Keynes and Keynesian Economics
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> There seem to be no end of books and articles praising Keynes
> and Keynesian economics and they continue to be published.
>
> My question, however, is are there any books and articles
> critical of Keynes and Keynesian economics? If so, where are
> they and who are the leading authors today taking an anti-
> Keynesian position? John Taylor, perhaps, or Alberto Alesina
> which is not a long list of names.
>
> Indeed, who are the authors of the past 75 years who have done
> major work in this area? I can think off hand of Mises, Hayek,
> Hazlett and Hutt, but who else is there and what did they write?
>
> The literature must surely be more extensive than this.
>
>
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