Designing a useful textbook for an open access audience – a Q and A with the authors of Macroeconomics: an easy guide

Campante, Filipe, Sturzenegger, Federico and Velasco, Andres ORCID: 0000-0003-0441-5062 (2021) Designing a useful textbook for an open access audience – a Q and A with the authors of Macroeconomics: an easy guide. LSE COVID-19 Blog (23 Nov 2021). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Textbooks play an important role in defining fields of research and summarising key academic ideas for a wider audience. But how do you do this for an open access audience that is potentially unlimited? We talked to Filipe Campante (Johns Hopkins), Federico Sturzenegger (Harvard/Universidad de San Andrés) and Andrés Velasco (LSE), authors of the recently published LSE Press book Advanced Macroeconomics: An Easy Guide, about how the field has changed in recent times, what makes their approach to macroeconomics distinctive, and what rationales and ambitions lie behind producing an open access textbook.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Authors
Divisions:	School of Public Policy
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources
Date Deposited:	12 Jan 2022 09:36
Last Modified:	11 Sep 2025 13:33
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/113051

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