To study economics?

Quoting Tjpld

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Well then just go and visit a macroeconomics lecture at your university.
There shouldn't be any problem with sitting in a lecture that's not part of your studies.

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Quoting Warper

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My University books are in portuguese but they are based on english ones.

I can't tell you which one is the best. You have find for yourself.

I separated the books by sections. This is a resume of what i learned so far, in my second year.

Macroeconomics, you get a feel of how demand and suply works, and how they calculate, increase or decrease GDP growth by managing savings, investement, consume and spending. Has a little introduction to money but the base is general economics. You get to understand how a simple bad element in the GDP equilibrium can ruin it for years,

Monetary And Finance Economics, you get to understand, stocks, shares, bonds, yields, interest rates, and why they are the reason of the value of the money.

Economy and Public Finance

This is more about how the government works to maintain a good health in the country finance. Talks about income and costs, like when to raise or lower taxes. In general teachs how to make a good Budget.

International Economy

As the name says, talks about international economics like country payments, commerce, and the understanding of the currency market and monetary integration.


I have Microeconomics books too. The currency market is more about Macroeconomics, but MicroEconomics also talks about market equilibrium and suply and demand if you want to understand it better.

I hope this helps.

Macroeconomics


Frank, R. e B. Bernanke Principles of Economics, Second Edition

Frank, R. e B. Bernanke Principles of MacroEconomics, Second Edition

Abel, A., Bernanke, B. (2003) Macroeconomics, 4th ed., Addison-Wesley.

Economics, Tenth Edition, Lipsey & Crystal, Oxford University

Blanchard, O. (2003): Macroeconomics, 3rd ed., Prentice Hall.

Dornbusch, R., Fischer, S. e Startz,R. (2004) Macroeconomics, 9ª edição. McGraw-Hill, Lisboa.

Jones, Charles I.(2002) Introduction to Economic Growth (2nd Ed.) WW Norton & C. New York. London


Monetary and Finance Economics


Mishkin, Frederic S. (2007) “The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets”, Eight Edition, Addison, Wesley, Longman. ISBN:0321415051.

Cecchetti, Stephen (2006), “Money, Banking and Financial Markets”, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0072452692


Economy and Public Finance

Stiglitz, J. (2000) The Economics of the Public Sector, W.W. Norton, 3rd. ed. New York

Rosen H, (1999) Public Finance, 5th ed. - New York : McGraw-Hill

Public finance in theory and practice / Peggy B. Musgrave, Richard A. Musgrave. - 5th ed. - New York : McGraw-Hill, 1989.

Internacional Economy

Appleyard, D., Field, A. e Cobb, S. (2006) International Economics, 5th edn. McGraw-Hill, Boston


Microeconomics (its not important but if you want to know so much about economics, this ones talk about markets at a micro level)

Talks about decisions in uncertainty/low information environments and equilibrium in markets.

Economics, Tenth Edition, Lipsey & Crystal, Oxford University (Macro and Micro)

Paul Krugman e Robin Wells (2005), Microeconomics. Worth Publishers. ISBN: 0716752298

Varian, H. (2003) Intermediate Microeconomics. W.W. Norton & Company, New York/ London

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