Macroeconomic Policy

Dr. Langdana's areas of specialization include monetary and fiscal theory and international trade and global macroeconomic policy. His research deals with macroeconomic experimentation and the role of stabilization policy in an expectations-driven economy. He has published several articles as well as five books in this area. His new book, co-authored with Peter Murphy and published by Springer Press, is titled "International Trade and Global Macropolicy." Dr. Langdana is the recipient of the Horace dePodwin Research Award and more than 30 teaching awards, including the highest possible teaching award at Rutgers University -- the Warren I. Susman Award. He also has received Rutgers Business School's Paul Nadler Award for Excellence in Teaching. From 2011 to 2013, the Award for Excellence in teaching in the MBA Program was named the Farrokh Langdana Teaching Excellence Award.

1. Introduction and Overview: We are not all Keynesians now.-2. National Income Accounts.- 3. Budget Deficits, Trade Deficits and GlobalCapital Flows: The NationalSavings Identity in its Present Form.- 4. Aggregate Demand: Setting the Stagefor Demand-Side Stabilization.- 5. Demand-Side Stabilization: Asset PriceBubbles, Overheating, Hard Landing, and Everything in Between.- 6. TheSub-Prime Crisis and its Global Implications.- 7.Long-Term Interest Rates, theYield Curve, and Hyperinflation: Why "Bonds Know Best".- 8. ISLM: The EngineRoom.- 9. The Classical Model: The Bedrock of the Supply-Side Model.- 10. TheKeynesian Model: Exploring the Keynesian History of the US, China and SouthernEurope .- 11. The Great DepressionRe-Examined, and the Nature of Bubbles.- 12. The Supply-Side Model and itsImplications for the Eurozone and for the "New" India.- 11. Central Banks, Monetary Policy and Currency Pegs: The Eurozone,the US After 2008, the Impossible Trinity, and the "Broken Rhombus".