Economics
Principles of Economics: Global Financial Crisis Edition, 6th Edition
includes Global Economic Crisis GEC Resource Center Printed Access Card
ISBN-10: 1439078203 ISBN-13: 9781439078204
912 Pages Casebound
© 2010 Published
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Table of Contents
PART I. INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS.
1. The Central Idea.
2. Observing and Explaining the Economy.
2A. Appendix to Chapter 2: Reading, Understanding, and Creating Graphs.
3. The Supply and Demand Model.
4. Subtleties of the Supply and Demand Model: Price Floors, Price Ceilings, and Elasticity.
PART II. PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS.
5. The Demand Curve and the Behavior of Consumers.
5A. Appendix to Chapter 5: Consumer Theory with Indifference Curves.
6. The Supply Curve and the Behavior of Firms.
7. The Interaction of People in Markets.
PART III. THE ECONOMICS OF THE FIRM.
8. Costs and the Changes at Firms over Time.
8A. Appendix to Chapter 8: Producer Theory with Isoquants.
9. The Rise and Fall of Industries.
10. Monopoly.
11. Product Differentiation, Monopolistic Competition, and Oligopoly.
12. Antitrust Policy and Regulation.
PART IV. MARKETS, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, AND PUBLIC GOODS.
13. Labor Markets.
14. Taxes, Transfers, and Income Distribution.
15. Public Goods, Externalities, and Government Behavior.
16. Capital and Financial Markets.
16A. Appendix to Chapter 16: Present Discounted Value.
PART V. PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS.
17. Macroeconomics: The Big Picture.
17A Appendix to Chapter 17. The Miracle of Compound Growth.
18. Measuring the Production, Income, and Spending of Nations.
19. The Spending Allocation Model.
20. Unemployment and Employment.
21. Productivity and Economic Growth.
21A. Appendix to Chapter 21: Deriving the Growth Accounting Formula.
22. Money and Inflation.
PART VI. ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS AND MACROECONOMIC POLICY.
23. The Nature and Causes of Economic Fluctuations.
23A. Appendix to Chapter 23. Deriving the Formula for the Keynesian Multiplier and the Forward-Looking Consumption Model.
24. The Economic Fluctuations Model.
25. Using the Economic Fluctuations Model.
26. Fiscal Policy.
27. Monetary Policy and the Financial Crisis.
PART VII. TRADE AND GLOBAL MARKETS.
28. Economic Growth and Globalization.
29. The Gains from International Trade.
30. International Trade Policy.
Glossary.
Index.
Credits.