Macroeconomics

Rating:
Summary: Without doubt one of the best on the market
Review: I don't normally bother to review books, but the comments on this book are so bizarre I feel the need to respond. This is a textbook for the intermediate macroeconomics level. Someone coming to this book with no economics background at all might find the book hard going in places, but that is to be expected; it is not intended as a piece of popular writing on economics.

I am very familiar with intermediate macroeconomic textbooks -- indeed, I wrote ancillary material for one of the leading textbooks currently on the market -- and I think DeLong's textbook is one of the best books around. For many topics it is *the* best book.

Rating:
Summary: I would put most low reviews of this work down to politics
Review: This is an excellent intermediate Macro textbook, and the writing style is more acessible than one usually encounters at this level of economics.
The theory is up-to-date and couched in less political dogma than similar products from other sources.

This is not an introduction to Macro!
This is a first-term MBA or intermediate BA/BS course!

Given the lower quality of the competing texts I have read, I put down most low reviews to sight-unseen grousing by partisans who wish to inflict monetary loss on Professor DeLong for his political views.
In todays political climate this is unsurprising, but it is quite disturbing that it has reached this far into solid science.

Rating:
Summary: Ghastly, Garbage and Grotesque
Review: This is just a poorly written book. I am surprised that this book has not been reviewed extensively. This was so bad that I could not find places where I can say that I learned something valuable without hitting myself. This is so bad that one cannot fine anything that is good and praise it. Bradford Delong is just an awful writer and doing no justice with the subject. I found his book worse than the already worse textbook in the market. I hope there is no second edition to this ridiculous experiment that has gone bad.