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Summary: a review from a skeptical student, now a convert.
Review: Sargent continues his tradition of applying new methods to get to the bottom of macroeconomic phenom'ns. Should get the Nobel one of these years for work in rational expectations and macroeconimcs econometric techniques.
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Summary: Sargent/Ljungqvist Book is Macro-Riffic !
Review: Sargent continues his tradition of applying new methods to get to the bottom of macroeconomic phenom'ns. Should get the Nobel one of these years for work in rational expectations and macroeconimcs econometric techniques.
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Summary: A book for Econometricians rather than Macroeconomists
Review: The book is certainly written by distinguished people, but it seems to me that their focus in writting this book was more to exhibit mathematical methods to solve problems rather than discuss the problems themselves. Apparently the book is meant for training mathematical skills in dynamic programming, and prepare you for computer simulations of macroeconomic problems. But don't use it for understanding macroeconomics.
In general, the authors get into mathematical discussions that divert attention from the problem itself, and at the same time they don't explain why they are doing all these. Reading the book needs a lot of background knowledge and self-intuition. Apart from that some chapters are educational and fit for class work.
The first chapters cover mathematical basics about random process and Markov chains and estimation. They are the good chapters. The chapters on partial equilibrium, complete markets ad incomplete markets are also the ones that are noramlly used in class lectures. The book's coverage of consumption theory and economic growth is weak and insufficient. I would recommend Romer or Blanchard&Fisher book for that. The chapter on search and job matching is also simplistic and again not enough. In most of the chapters, technicality dominates concepts, so having a complementary textbook can be great help.
For one thing, the book has a lot of misprints and mistakes too, which seem to be fixed in the newer edition.
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Summary: Not the first book in Dynamic Macro, but excellent afterward
Review: The first time i read the book, i'm sure this should not be the first text book for Dynamic Macroeconomics everyone should read. It's better to read somewhere else as an introduction to the idea of dynamic macroeconomics. Romer 'Advanced Macroeconomics' and Stokey, Lucas, Prescott 'Recursive Methods' are more appropriate to start. After gainning some similarity with Dynamic Methods, it would be much better to study models about macroeconomics presented in the book.This book is the presentations of various models using Dynamic / Recursive Macroeconomics. It makes them easier and time-saving to study many kinds of model in a semester. It's GOOD & HELPFUL IN THIS SENSE. However, it might not be a good book for study in depth. You are better to study from the original papers for the same topics. I think, this book is similar to Tirole 'Theory of Industrial Organization' in spirit, but different in content. They both show the simplified version of various models in the fields. If you think you like this style, you would like to have it. But if you don't, it might be better just to skim (from the library) and read the original papers. Hope this comment would be helpful for you to make a decision :)
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Summary: Not the first book in Dynamic Macro, but excellent afterward
Review: The first time i read the book, i'm sure this should not be the first text book for Dynamic Macroeconomics everyone should read. It's better to read somewhere else as an introduction to the idea of dynamic macroeconomics. Romer 'Advanced Macroeconomics' and Stokey, Lucas, Prescott 'Recursive Methods' are more appropriate to start. After gainning some similarity with Dynamic Methods, it would be much better to study models about macroeconomics presented in the book. This book is the presentations of various models using Dynamic / Recursive Macroeconomics. It makes them easier and time-saving to study many kinds of model in a semester. It's GOOD & HELPFUL IN THIS SENSE. However, it might not be a good book for study in depth. You are better to study from the original papers for the same topics. I think, this book is similar to Tirole 'Theory of Industrial Organization' in spirit, but different in content. They both show the simplified version of various models in the fields. If you think you like this style, you would like to have it. But if you don't, it might be better just to skim (from the library) and read the original papers. Hope this comment would be helpful for you to make a decision :)
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Summary: Much better than Sargent's Dynamic macroeconomic
Review: This book is much more readible than Sargent's dynamic macroeconomic. It explains all the mordern Dynamic macroeconomic theory in accesible way. Authors also introduce simple numerical methods. If you were dissapointed with Sargent's book,you will be satisfied with this.
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Summary: get it free
Review: This is a great book. But you can download the second addition free on Sargent's website, so I wouldn't recommend buying it.
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Summary: Perfect book
Review: This is a perfect book for three reasons; i) it is perfect for those who wish to learn modern macroeconomics. The book develops necessary knowledge and tools to be applied to dynamic economics, ii) Sargent is one of most prominent and leading macroeconomists of the world, and he should be Nobel prize winner in Economics, iii) the book is published by MIT.
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Summary: a review from a skeptical student, now a convert.
Review: This text is perhaps the most accessible introduction to modern macroeconomics available. What I feel to be the greatest contributions of the text are the problems-- in each chapter, they start from the basics and build upon one another until you are formulating elaborate models that are the basis for much of the current discourse in the literature. The approaches used are so powerful and the questions tackled so varied that you cannot help believing that the recursive method is the future, not only for traditional issues in macroeconomics, but throughout the discipline. Hey, the book stands out so much, I decided to write a review!
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Summary: Not for beginners
Review: When I recently left my job as cryer in a grim, north-eastern town, I was made the head of recursive macroeconomic theory at a major international bank. I could have done with a simpler introduction than this, to be honest, as my knowledge of RMT was limited. But now I hold my own in meetings simply by spouting a few long words from this book (mainly "macroeconomic" and "recursive" - theory doesn't seem to impress as much) and delegating to underlings.
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