Get students to think like an Economist using the latest policy and data while incorporating Global Issues.
Introduction: What is Economics?; The Economic Problem. How Markets Work: Demand and Supply; Elasticity; Efficiency and Equity; Government Actions in Markets; Global Markets in Action. Households’ Choices: Utility and Demand; Possibilities, Preferences, and Choices. Firms and Markets: Organizing Production; Output and Costs; Perfect Competition; Monopoly; Monopolistic Competition; Oligopoly. Market Failure and Government: Externalities; Public Goods and Common Resources. Factor Markets, Inequality, and Uncertainty: Markets for Factors of Production; Economic Inequality; Uncertainty and Information. Monitoring Macroeconomic Trends and Fluctuations: Measuring GDP and Economic Growth; Monitoring Jobs and Inflation. Macroeconomic Trends: Economic Growth; Finance, Saving, and Investment; Money, the Price Level, and Inflation; The Exchange Rate and the Balance of Payments. Macroeconomic Fluctuations: Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand; Expenditure Multipliers: They Keynesian Model; U.S. Inflation, Unemployment, and Business Cycle. Macroeconomic Policy: Fiscal Policy; Monetary Policy. For all readers interested in economics.
This package contains:
- Addison-Wesley, MyEconLab with E-Book 2-semester Student Access Kit (valuepack item only) (2010)
