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Advanced Macroeconomics
by David Romer
from McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 
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Perfect 
The book arrived in a timely manner and the condition was just as described. Very satisfied!
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Poor: lacking in rigor, not critical enough, sloppily designed problems 
This book is almost a stereotype of a bad macroeconomics textbook. While it does have some good qualities, including good and readable writing style (which is useful only when the underlying ideas are sound), its flaws make it unusable for anyone wanting to become a serious economist. I have two separate criticisms of this book: bad philosophical underpinnings and lack of rigor on the one hand, and poor choice and sloppiness in the design of the problems on the other hand.
The prose is pretty good,... more info
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Best Advanced Macroeconomics ever written
The Advanced Macroeconomics from Professor David Romer is in my opinion the best Advanced Macroeconomics textbook ever written, due to some points:
- It treats in a simple manner several issues regarding the most advanced issues on Macroeconomics,
- It's updated and varied,
- It's accessible for new comers in the field.
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unfortunately there's nothing better 
One might divide economics books into two categories: those that are strong on explanation and intution, and those that are strong on proof. This book has neither, and unfortunately it appears to be the standard in graduate macroeconomics courses. I find myself wondering if it deliberately chooses the most obscure way to write its equations. For instance, in the Solow and Ramsey models, Romer retains the population and household variables throughout the entire proof rather than simply write them in... more info
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