IMHO, "Macroeconomics" is a diseased discipline, for a number of reasons. If you want to gain a rigorous yet reasonably intuitive understanding of the economic phenomena which are usually addressed by "macro", you could do worse than looking at monetary disequilibrium theory, as addressed by such authors as Robert Clower and Leland Yeager, or (on the more Austrian side) George Selgin and Lawrence H. White. Economist Nicholas Rowe, writing on the WCI blog, is a good popularizer of this school of thought.
Discussion article for the meetup : Philadelphia LW: Macroeconomics crash course and general meetup
WHEN: 15 February 2012 06:30:00PM (-0500)
WHERE: 1301 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19107-3521 US
We'll be meeting at the Starbucks in Macy's Center City (conveniently located near Suburban Station for you traingoers!) from 6:30 - 8:30 P.M.
This week's featured topic will be a "crash course" in macroeconomics from one of our members, who also happens to be a graduate student in economics, in continuation of some fairly lengthy and interesting economic discussions that came out of our first meetup in January (not that you shouldn't come if you weren't there...please feel free to stop by regardless of your history with either LW meetups or economics in general!).
Agenda will also include general self-improvement, planning future meetups, and, of course, better getting to know new members and attendees from last meetup alike. We hope to see you there!
Also: please feel free to request an invitation to our Google group (http://groups.google.com/group/lesswrong-philadelphia) if you would like to discuss meetup ideas (including the details of this upcoming one) in real time, and/or would generally like to start talking to people prior to convening in meat space!
Discussion article for the meetup : Philadelphia LW: Macroeconomics crash course and general meetup