The ninth edition of a highly successful annual reader for all introductory economics courses, Introductory Macroeconomics 1985-86 contains more than sixty articles by leading economists published in periodicals as recently as May 1985. The articles are chosen to reflect the entire spectrum of economic opinion, from left-wing to right-wing, from liberal to conservative, from Keynesian to monetarist to supply-side advocate. Writers include such well-known commentators on macroeconomic problems as Martin Neil Baily, Alan S. Blinder, Peter F. Drucker, Joseph A. Pechman, Alice M. Rivlin, Paul Craig Roberts, James Tobin, and Paul A. Volcker.

The stimulating articles and essays are selected from a diverse range of popular and scholarly sources, including The Wall Street Journal, U.S. Fortune, Business Week, Cato Journal, The New Republic, Federal Reserve Bank publications, and other major magazines and journals.

Introductory Macroeconomics 1985-86, edited by Peter D. McClelland, provides a contemporary and lively view of the way “real world economics” relates to the topics covered in all major textbooks. It’s an ideal supplements.