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    Macroeconomics and Active Graphs CD Package, Third Edition
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    5 out of 5 stars Macroeconomics and Active Graphs.......2007-03-08

    One of the best study books for Microeconomics. Very helpfull. Graphs and tools are great. It will be more convenient to us if we can use more books like this while we are in school.
    Macroeconomics with Active Graphs CD (2nd Edition)
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    • Best Macroeconomics Text In The Market
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    • undergrad macro text full of intuitions
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    The fundamental goals of this book are to provide an integrated view of macroeconomics, and to make close contact with current macroeconomic events. The book is now organized around two main parts, a core of eleven chapters, followed by a set of three major extensions. The core looks at the short run, the medium run and the long run. The extensions look at expectations, openness and pathologies. Theory and applications are continuously used to explain what is happening around the world. All theoretical material is presented by relating it to the real world. For anyone wanting to further their knowledge of macroeconomics.

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    5 out of 5 stars very recommendable.......2007-09-17

    If you are beginer or to know where to step your foots in Economics,
    this book is highly recommendable.

    Before read this book, I cannot fully understand articles of Economic Newspapers(like The Wall Street Jouranal).

    The arthur, Oliver Blanchard, said the readers will read each section 1 or 1 hr and a half, however, I spent 5 or 6 hours.(but valuable)

    And I had a very unusual experience with this book, when I reached page 446, there is about 12 lines of no-printing from the bottom of the page,
    so I asked about the matter the branch of publisher in Korea,where I live, and sent the mail to the Publisher in U.S., But I have still no answer yet.

    Finally I sent message to Amazon, then they solve the problem as possible as they can.
    Thus, I appreciate the efforts of solving the matter in private.
    And Suggest you to check each page, if you buy this book.

    Lee.... from Seoul, Korea

    5 out of 5 stars Best Macroeconomics Text In The Market.......2006-04-22

    This is simply the best Macroeconomics text out there. The book is easy enough to read for the layman, yet contains concepts hard enough for those who want to be challeneged. It also includes real world examples for those who want to understand the application of macroeconomics rather than just the theory.
    The study guide should come with the book. (At least that is how I got it when I brought it new...). The study guide is very helpful as it contains excellent summaries of each chapter and questions following those reviews with answers in the back.
    Neither the study guide or the book, however, contain answers to the text, so be prepared to work a little bit harder on those end-of-the-chapter questions ;)

    4 out of 5 stars the thresher.......2005-06-03

    Olivier Blanchard's handsome hardbound "Macroeconomics" (3rd Ed.) is a challenging and unfriendly freshman-level macroeconomics text that does a solid but daunting job.

    This third outing was published in 2003, meaning it incorporates the Bushian twin deficits, the euro, the Argentinean retrieval, the rise and fall of the Asian tigers, etc. So that's nice.

    Note that if you're teaching an economics class for the non-major, this book is most definitely inappropriate. For this purpose I would recommend either Stephen Slavin's "Macroeconomics" (8th Ed.), or, if you require more rigor, Mankiw's "Principles of Macroeconomics" (3rd Ed.), both of which are much easier on the math.

    Olivier's juggernaut is more appropriate as a freshman level text for finance or economics majors who are slated to do some heavy-duty number-crunching later in their college career.

    It is certainly NOT an intermediate text in macroeconomics (i.e., a junior-level text that incorporates integration and differentiation), so it would most profitably deployed in a rigorous or honors-level freshman-level class (in fact this is the standard text used in freshman econ at MIT -- its author is this brilliant French dude who sometimes teaches freshman econ there).

    So be not deceived: this book assumes intermediate algebra, trigonometry, and even some (non-calculus) statistics. There's also some nasty addition and multiplication!

    Though there's nothing in it beyond what a high school graduate ought to know, it would help to be clear on its demands. Many freshman books I have thumbed through seem to require only beginning algebra, if that. Not here: algebra is woven into the fiber of this book like a fingernail to the flesh, and any student unskilled in the equational arts will have a rotten time of things.

    One good thing about the book: it comes with a cool CD on which you can manipulate the graphs, chapter by chapter, in a fun and instructive (and time-killing) way.

    One bad thing about the book: although there are review questions and problem sets at the end of every chapter, there are no answers anywhere in the book. Sheesh! Presumably, given the math level required and the merciless tone of the text, we are meant to see this as a book for adult learners, so why are we being treated like children? Is Mr. Blanchard afraid I'm gonna copy the answers?

    5 out of 5 stars undergrad macro text full of intuitions.......2004-07-13

    Unlike the graduate textbook (Lectures on Macroeconomics), this undergraduate textbook is full of economic intuitions, comparable to microeconomic textbooks of Varian's.
    Especially, if you have an interest in Macroeconometic practices (books such as Ray Fair's...), Blanchard's is much better than Mankiw's, I believe.
    First edition contained the exciting (but short...) section on identification problem and differentiation between causality and correlation. Those issues are of much more importance than they look when you actually "do" something with the macroeconmic issues.

    4 out of 5 stars Good Intermediate Macro Book.......2004-07-01

    This book is an appropriate tool for an intermediate macroeconomics course-guess where I used it! The "Core" of the book is broken up into three sections: the short run (IS/LM), the medium run (IS/LM-AD/AS), and long run (Solow). This is very helpful and provides a natural progression.

    Blanchard does skim over some of the more basic stuff, especially, as somebody mentioned, with the IS/LM model. For this reason I think it is very appropriate for an intermediate course where somebody probably has already learned some of the fundamentals in an introductory course. Unfortunately I felt that the Solow model was not in the depth that I would like, especially with respect to mathematics.

    On that note, the book doesn't use a high level of mathematics, but the equations are there, and your algebra should definitely be up to par. This also provides a nice transition to those looking to take an advanced micro or macro course, as things tend to involve more and more mathematics as one goes on.

    Overall, a good book, lacking in a spot or two, but a good textbook overall.

    Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding
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    • How the US by luck and cunning got public funding right
    Good and Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding
    Tyler Cowen
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    Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it's terrible--and such small portions! Americans typically either want to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts, or they believe that public arts funding should be dramatically increased because the arts cannot survive in the free market. It would take a lover of the arts who is also a libertarian economist to bridge such a gap. Enter Tyler Cowen. In this book he argues why the U.S. way of funding the arts, while largely indirect, results not in the terrible and the small but in Good and Plenty--and how it could result in even more and better.

    Few would deny that America produces and consumes art of a quantity and quality comparable to that of any country. But is this despite or because of America's meager direct funding of the arts relative to European countries? Overturning the conventional wisdom of this question, Cowen argues that American art thrives through an ingenious combination of small direct subsidies and immense indirect subsidies such as copyright law and tax policies that encourage nonprofits and charitable giving. This decentralized and even somewhat accidental--but decidedly not laissez-faire--system results in arts that are arguably more creative, diverse, abundant, and politically unencumbered than that of Europe.

    Bringing serious attention to the neglected issue of the American way of funding the arts, Good and Plenty is essential reading for anyone concerned about the arts or their funding.

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    5 out of 5 stars How the US by luck and cunning got public funding right.......2007-04-22

    Good research and scholarship can change the way we see the world. Tyler Cowen achieved this with his study of the counterproductive impact of the Marshall Plan that delivered aid to Europe after WW2. This story can be found on his web site and it might have warned the West off the disastrous aid programs to the Third World that were partly inspired by the Marshall Plan.

    He has done it again in this book where his intention "to steer the arts policy debate away from its previous focus on the National Endowment for the Arts. More significant questions concern the use of our tax system to support nonprofits, creating a favourable climate for philanthropy, the legal treatment of the arts, the arts in the American university, and the evolution of copyright law. I also seek to recast the debate over direct funding of the arts...A more fruitful inquiry involves what general steps a government can take to promote a wide variety of healthy and diverse funding sources for the arts."

    Cowen is a professor of economics at the George Mason University (Virginia) and a daily contributor to the blog Marginal Revolution. He has a special interest in the economics and dynamics of the arts and culture, using culture in the broad sense employed by T S Eliot to include the preparation and consumption of food. Ironically (or appropriately) the most popular page on his personal web site is his ethnic eating guide to the Northern Virginia, Washington DC and Maryland area.

    He has previously challenged widespread views about the damaging influence of capitalism and mass consumer culture on the vitality and diversity of the arts. "In Praise of Commercial Culture" surveyed the last two or three centuries to show how the capitalist market economy provided a vital but underappreciated framework to support a wide range of artistic visions. In "Creative Destruction" he pursued the same theme to argue that international free trade in goods and ideas will alter or disrupt many particular cultures but the net result will be positive.

    In "Good and Plenty" Cowen is looking for some middle ground between libertarians who oppose any kind of government interference in the arts and others who think that the very survival of the creative instinct depends on the generosity of governments. The book is a remarkable contribution at the conceptual level and also with the mass of information that he has assembled on the diverse forms of direct and indirect assistance that US governents have provided. He set out to bridge the gap between economic and aesthetic perspectives because neither of these approaches can stand alone as a tool for evaluating policy. He explains how the US managed to combine luck and cunning to organise arts funding in a remarkably effective way, bearing in mind that the controversial NEA program accounts for less than 1% of public support for the arts.

    His chapter on "Indirect Subsidies: The Genius of the American System" catalogues the many forms of indirect support (form tax breaks to the universities) that represent the overwhelming majority of public funding for arts and culture. A chapter gives the history of direct funding, and he agrues, contra received opinion, that direct funding is likely to be too conservative. The descriptive material in these two chapters conveys a surprising and counter-intuitive perception of the role of the US governnment in cultural affairs. Another chapter gives a somewhat disconcerting account of the mounting challenges from cyberspace to the benefits that creators and distributors of cultural have gained from traditional copyright laws. He ends his (possibly) somewhat rose-tinted account with suggestions for improvement of the system.

    To get straight on the figures, he reports that donations (from both individuals and corporations) listed as tax deductions for 'Arts, Culture and Humanities' amounted to $30 billion in 2003. Compare this with NEA funding which peaked at $175 million in 1992. He estimates that donations of time amount to some 390,000 volunteers with a dollar value in the order of $20 billion. In contrast the French government limits tax deductions for the arts to 1% of taxable income for individuals and 0.1% for corporations. Germany allows deductions but bureauctatic restrictions make the scheme unworkable.

    Cowen casts his net wide for examples of indirect support such as the Government promotion of international free trade through the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organisation. Imported artworks are exempt from duty and until recently we are advised that the US government turned a blind eye to imports of antiques from ancient civilisations that may have been stolen or acquired in black or grey markets. Yet another form of support is the higher education system which provides a niche for large numbers of writers, artists and musicians despite reservations by many creative people about academic influences.

    Direct funding commenced in a small way in 1817 with a commission of paintings to celebrate the Revolutionary War. The New Deal in the 1930s produced the first large-scale effort with assorted programs including the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) employing 5000 artists per year at the peak and 40,000 all told. The total cost of WPA programs through the New Deal to their close in 1943 ran to the vicinity of $100 million, equivalent to $2 billion today.

    The Cold War prompted government aid far in excess of the generosity of the New Deal, through such a wide range of agencies and programs (including comprehensive cultural contol in Germany, Austria and Japan for several years) that the amount of money involved is very hard to estimate. Cowen estimated that cultural outreach peaked in 1953 at $129 million, over $700 million in current dollars and that was only a part of a much larger propaganda effort that spent up to $2 billion per annum, employed over ten thousand people and reached 150 countries. As a wry aside, Cowen notes that the current allocation for military bands at $200 million exceeds the funds dispensed by the NEA.

    Getting back to the domestic function of direct support for the arts, Cowen points out that agencies such as the National Endowment for the Arts can either act as venture capitalists to simulate new artistic ideas (hopefully picking artistic winners) or they can focus on works of high culture that have stood the test of time. Their efforts tend to be split between these roles, trying to be all things to all people to ensure their political survival. The sums of money distributed in direct support of the arts at home are negligible compared with the volume of indirect support and so the fuss about NEA funding is a storm in a teacup and it is most unhelpful that the debate on public funding for the arts is mostly about the use and abuse of these funds.
    The Aesthetics of Organization
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      ASIN: 076195323X

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      Organizational aesthetics, both as a body of theory and a method of inquiry, is a rapidly expanding area of the organizational sciences. The Aesthetics of Organization accessibly draws key contributions delineating the emerging parameters of the field. It explains the significance of concepts devised by postmodern thinkers, through which emerge meaning and order in organizations. Methodological problems associated with investigations of the aesthetic are also highlighted so the reader can identify and understand the importance of recent ideas on vision, perspective and periphery for learning in organizations. Through the contributions of leading international theorists, organizational aesthetics is defined in greater historical and theoretical depth, with a broad conceptual and practical range which academics will find invaluable.
      Soft Boundaries: Re-Visioning the Arts and Aesthetics in American Education
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        Soft Boundaries: Re-Visioning the Arts and Aesthetics in American Education
        Claire Detels
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        American education and culture are suffering from a terrible, soul-numbing imbalance, in which there is an overemphasis on basic, quantifiable skills and knowledge and a de-emphasis of more creative areas of the humanities, especially the arts and aesthetics. Detels indicates that the marginalization of the arts and aesthetics in American education has been caused by a "hard-boundaried" paradigm that has come to dominate American education. According to this paradigm, the arts are wrongly viewed and taught as separate, unconnected disciplines of music, visual arts, dance, and theater, while their intimate connections to each other and to aesthetic experience and life in general are completely unrepresented. The way out of this crisis is to change paradigms, from a hard-boundaried, single-minded valuation of specialization to a more soft-boundaried curriculum that allows for specialized education in individual art forms as well as widespread interdisciplinary integration of the arts with each other and with general education at the K-12 and college levels. Without such a change, we will be unable to equip our students with the necessary skills to understand and communicate about the increasingly complex, sensually immersive artistic media and forms of the future.
        Aesthetic Dimensions Educational Administration & Leadership
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        • aethetics and its significance to the field of leadership studies
        Aesthetic Dimensions Educational Administration & Leadership
        Eugenie Samier
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        The Aesthetic Dimensions of Educational Administration and Leadership provides an aesthetic critique of educational administration and leadership. It demonstrates the importance of aesthetics on all aspects of the administrative and leadership world: the ways ideas and ideals are created, how their expression is conveyed, the impact they have on interpersonal relationships and the organizational environment that carries and reinforces them, and the moral boundaries or limits that can be established or exceeded.

        The book is divided into three sections.
        · Section I examines various philosophical traditions in aesthetics as they inform administrative life, focussing on major modern traditions arising from Kant, romanticism and Nietzsche, Collingwood, the pragmatic school, and critical theory.
        · Section II explores four aesthetic sources for administrative critique - architecture, literature, film, and movement - as they serve both to understand the social construction of administration and leadership and provide a critique of values, roles, power and authority.
        · Section III examines more topical and applied problems of charisma, heroism, and authority in practice, concluding with a discussion of the aesthetic analysis of politics and power within the context of contemporary educational administration and leadership theory.

        While presenting a significant departure from conventional studies in the field, the international contributors reflect a continuity of thought on the creation, use and abuse of administrative and leadership authority from the writings of Plato through to contemporary theory. This book should appeal to school administrators and leaders and those aspiring to these roles.

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        5 out of 5 stars aethetics and its significance to the field of leadership studies.......2007-01-11

        This book is well written with multiple perspectives on the aesthetics and educational leadership. Writers such as Hodgkinson, C. (1978, 1991) and Greenfield T.B. & Ribbins, P. (1993) have been calling for alternate ways of knowing and understanding the field of administration. Samier has contributed to that request by focusing on the aesthetics. The authors write from a perspective that views administration as being fluid and dynamic. For them, there is no quick fix, no one best way to define educational leadership and administration. Instead, the book provides a multiple aesthetic lenses through which one can look at the many paradigms of leadership. For anyone interested in the field of leadership and administration, it is a book worth reading.
        Organization and Aesthetics
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        • Aesthetic view offers insights otherwise unavailable
        Organization and Aesthetics
        Antonio Strati
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        ASIN: 076195239X

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        This book shows how aesthetic understanding of organizations can extend our knowledge and sharpen our insights into many processes that shape organizational action.

        Organizational life is pervaded by aesthetics, yet conventional organizational analysis has been dominated by a `scientific', logico-rational tradition that ignores the aesthetic dimension.

        The book highlights the role of emotion in organizations, the importance of symbol, the subjective influence of culture and the processes of learning and cognition. These phenomena are related to the aesthetic rather than to purify rational, demanding new modes of inquiry that allow us richer insight into the dynamics of organizational life .

        Organization and Aesthetics provides a powerful new lens through which the daily, ever-chaning complexity of organizations can be better understood by students, researchers and mangers.

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        5 out of 5 stars Aesthetic view offers insights otherwise unavailable.......2002-11-15

        This eloquently written book rides the wave of interest in non-rational elements of organizational behavior, such as symbolism, subjectivity, emotion, and the effects of beauty and ugliness on our reactions to working environments. Readers gain a deeper understanding of how organizational life is permeated with "aesthetic" considerations such as tacit knowledge, deep feelings, non-causal learning, empathy, and artefacts. How many books on organizations begin with a discussion of street music? Strati merges an Italian immersion in art, Culture, organizational culture, and European scholarship with an expertise in North American organizational research, translating across continents new insights that are changing the way American scholars think about the organizations where so many of us spend our days (and some evenings).
        "Virgins of God": The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity (Oxford Classical Monographs)
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          Situated in a period that witnessed the genesis of institutions that have lasted to this day, this path-breaking study looks at how ancient Christian women, particularly in Asia Minor and Egypt, initiated ascetic ways of living, and how these practices were then institutionalized. Susanna Elm demonstrates that--in direct contrast to later conceptions--asceticism began primarly as an urban movement, in which women were significant protagonists. In the process, they completely transformed and expanded their roles as wife, mother, or widow: as Christian ascetics, they became `virgin wives', `virgin mothers', and `virgin widows' - with all the legal and economic implications of such a dramatic shift. As importantly, though, Christian men and women ascetics lived together. As `virgins of God' they created new families `in Christ'. No longer determined by their human bonds or human sexuality, they were `neither male nor female'. Finally, the book demonstrates how ascetic bishops - today known as saints - eventually `reformed' these early models of communal, ascetic life by dividing the `virgins of God' into monks and nuns and thus laid the foundation for the monasticism we know today.
          Ars Liturgiae: Worship, Aesthetics and Praxis
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            Liturgy is the place where all the human arts combine to offer worship to God, their source and inspiration. In this thought-provoking collection eleven of the finest contemporary scholars of liturgy explore the many facets of worship, from ritual theory to aesthetics to practice. Their gift of scholarship will enrich any student of the liturgy who spends time with this wide-ranging collection of essays.

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            ROBERT F. TAFT, SJ
            Home Communion in the Late Antique East
            MAXWELL E. JOHNSON
            Eucharistic Reservation and Lutheranism: An Extension of the Sunday Worship?
            JOHN F. BALDOVIN, SJ
            Catherine Pickstock and Medieval Liturgy
            MICHAEL S. DRISCOLL
            Mozart and Marriage: Ritual Change in Eighteenth-Century Vienna
            EDWARD FOLEY, CAPUCHIN
            Re-Attaching Tongue to Body: The Aesthetics of Liturgical Performance
            GILBERT OSTDIEK, OFM
            Let the Poet Speak
            PATRICK W. COLLINS
            Spirituality, the Imagination and the Arts
            JOHN ALLYN MELLOH, SM
            On the Vocation of the Preacher
            ANDREW D. CIFERNI, OPRAEM
            Framing the Scriptures: Preaching at the Eucharist on High Holy Days
            RAYMOND STUDZINSKI, OSB
            Practice Makes Perfect: Reading as Transformative Spiritual Practice
            R. KEVIN SEASOLTZ, OSB
            In the Celtic Tradition: Irish Church Architecture

            Paperback, 6 x 9, 288 pages.
            The Aesthetic in Education (Curriculum Issues in Arts Education, Volume 5)
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              The Aesthetic in Education (Curriculum Issues in Arts Education, Volume 5)

              Manufacturer: Pergamon Pr
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              Binding: Hardcover

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              ASIN: 0080318436
              Art and Aesthetics At Work
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                Art and Aesthetics At Work

                Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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                Binding: Hardcover

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                ASIN: 0333968638

                Book Description

                Over the last decade, aesthetic and art theory has played an increasingly significant role in the way work and its organization has come to be understood. Bringing together the work of an international spectrum of academics, this collection contributes, in an overall more critical vein, to such emerging debates. Combining both empirical and theoretical material, each chapter re-evaluates the emerging relationship between art, aesthetics, and work, exploring its potential as both a medium of critical analysis, and as a site of conflict and resistance.
                Bodying Forth: Aesthetic Liturgy
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                  Bodying Forth: Aesthetic Liturgy
                  Patrick W. Collins
                  Manufacturer: Paulist Pr
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                  Binding: Paperback

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