Economics
Economics, 7th Edition
ISBN-10: 061876125X ISBN-13: 9780618761258
912 Pages Casebound
© 2008 Published
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Table of Contents
I. INTRODUCTION TO THE PRICE SYSTEM.
1. Economics: The World Around You.
Appendix to Chapter 1. Working with Graphs.
2. Choice, Opportunity Costs, and Specialization.
3. Markets, Demand and Supply, and the Price System.
4. The Market System and the Private Sector.
5. The Public Sector.
II. MACROECONOMIC BASICS.
6. National Income Accounting.
7. An Introduction to the Foreign Exchange Market and the Balance of Payments.
8. Unemployment and Inflation.
9. Macroeconomic Equilibrium: Aggregate Demand and Supply.
10. Aggregate Expenditures.
Appendix to Chapter 10. An Algebraic Model of Aggregate Expenditures.
11. Income and Expenditures Equilibrium.
Appendix to Chapter 11. An Algebraic Model of Income and Expenditures Equilibrium.
III. MACROECONOMIC POLICY.
12. Fiscal Policy.
Appendix to Chapter 12. An Algebraic Examination of the Balanced-Budget Change in Fiscal Policy.
13. Money and Banking.
14. Monetary Policy.
15. Macroeconomic Policy: Tradeoffs, Expectations, Credibility, and Sources of Business Cycles.
16. Macroeconomic Viewpoints: New Keynesian, Monetarist, and New Classical.
IV. ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT.
17. Economic Growth.
18. Development Economics.
19. Globalization.
V. PRODUCT MARKET BASICS.
20. Elasticity: Demand and Supply.
Appendix to Chapter 20. Calculating Elasticity.
21. Consumer Choice.
Appendix to Chapter 21. Indifference Analysis.
22. Supply: The Costs of Doing Business.
Appendix to Chapter 22. The Mechanics of Going from Production to Costs.
VI. PRODUCT MARKETS.
23. Profit Maximization.
24. Perfect Competition.
25. Monopoly.
26. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly.
27. Antitrust and Regulation.
28. Government and Market Failure.
VII. RESOURCE MARKETS.
29. Resource Markets.
30. The Labor Market.
31. Capital Markets.
32. The Land Market and Natural Resources.
VIII. CURRENT ISSUES INVOLVING THE PUBLIC SECTOR AND THE MARKET ECONOMY.
33. Aging, Social Security, and Health Care.
34. Income Distribution, Poverty, and Government Policy.
IX. ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FINANCE.
35. World Trade Equilibrium.
36. International Trade Restrictions.
37. Exchange Rates and Financial Links Between Countries.