Elections in Hard Times

This book provides an accessible undergraduate-level introduction to computable general equilibrium (CGE) models a class of model that has come to play an important role in government policy decisions. The book uses a graphical approach to explain the economic theory that underlies a CGE model and provides results from simple small-scale CGE models to illustrate the links between theory and model outcomes. The book includes eleven guided hands-on exercises that introduce modeling techniques that are applied to real-world economic problems. Students will learn how to integrate their separate fields of economic study into a comprehensive general equilibrium perspective as they develop their skills as producers or consumers of CGE-based analysis.