Macroeconomic Dynamics is a peer-reviewed academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 which publishes articles in macroeconomics

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics is a branch of economics dealing with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of the whole economy. This includes a national, regional, or global economy...

. MD is edited by William A. Barnett

William A. Barnett

William Arnold Barnett is an American economist whose current work is in the field of chaos, bifurcation, and nonlinearity in socioeconomic contexts, as well as the study of the aggregation problem....

 and published by Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...

. Its publication started in 1997 with a frequency of 4 issues per year, but it later moved to a frequency of 5 issues per year.

Interviews

In addition to regular scientific articles, the journal occasionally publishes interviews with leading scholars in economics, which is uncommon for an academic journal in economics. The list of economists who were interviewed includes Robert Aumann

Robert Aumann

Robert John Aumann is an Israeli-American mathematician and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel...

, Costas Azariadis

Costas Azariadis

Constantine Christos "Costas" Azariadis, is a macroeconomist who was born February 17, 1943 in Athens, Greece. He has worked on diverse topics, such as labor markets, business cycles, and economic growth and development...

, William A. Brock, Guillermo Calvo

Guillermo Calvo

Guillermo Antonio Calvo is an Argentine economist who is currently Director of Columbia University's mid-career Program in Economic Policy Management in their School of International and Public Affairs ....

, David Cass

David Cass

David Cass was a professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, mostly known for his contributions to general equilibrium theory. His most famous work was on the Ramsey growth model, which is also known as the Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model.-Biography:David Cass was born in 1937 in...

, Peter Diamond

Peter Diamond

Peter Diamond was an English actor who had trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and remembered as a stuntman on television or film....

, Jacques Drèze

Jacques Drèze

Jacques H. Drèze is a Belgian economist noted for his contributions to economic theory, econometrics, and economic policy as well as for his leadership in the economics profession. Drèze was the first President of the European Economic Association in 1986 and was the President of the Econometric...

, Stanley Fisher, Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman was an American economist, statistician, academic, and author who taught at the University of Chicago for more than three decades...

, Elhanan Helpman

Elhanan Helpman

Elhanan Helpman is an Israeli-American economist who works in the field of international trade, political economy and economic growth.-Biography:...

, Janos Kornai

János Kornai

János Kornai , is an economist noted for his analysis and criticism of the command economies of Eastern European communist states.- Biography :...

, Axel Leijonhufvud

Axel Leijonhufvud

Axel Leijonhufvud is a Swedish economist, currently professor emeritus at the University of California Los Angeles and professor at the University of Trento, Italy....

, Wassily Leontief

Wassily Leontief

Wassily Wassilyovich Leontief , was a Russian-American economist notable for his research on how changes in one economic sector may have an effect on other sectors. Leontief won the Nobel Committee's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1973, and three of his doctoral students have also...

, Assar Lindbeck

Assar Lindbeck

Carl Assar Eugén Lindbeck is an economics professor and an artist. He is still an active economist at Stockholm University and at the ....

, Robert E. Lucas, Allan H. Meltzer, Franco Modigliani

Franco Modigliani

Franco Modigliani was an Italian economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Department of Economics, and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985.-Life and career:...

, Paul A. Samuelson, Thomas J. Sargent

Thomas J. Sargent

Thomas John "Tom" Sargent is an American Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winning economist, specializing in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics and time series econometrics...

, Anna J. Schwartz, Christopher Sims, Karl Shell

Karl Shell

Karl Shell is an American theoretical economist, specializing in macroeconomics and monetary economics.Shell received an A.B. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1960. He earned his Ph.D...

, Robert Shiller

Robert Shiller

Robert James "Bob" Shiller is an American economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a Fellow at the Yale International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management...

, Hirofumi Uzawa, and Paul A. Volcker.