Principles of Economics/a Cheerful Look at the Dismal Science: Opportunities in Economics/Books and Disk

by Amacher, Ryan C.; Ulbrich, Holley H.

• ISBN13: 9780538813051
• ISBN10: 0538813059
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-02-01
• Publisher: Thomson Learning College

Table of Contents

Introduction to Economics	p. 1
Economics, Economic Issues, and Economic Methods	p. 2
Markets, Governments, and Nations: The Organization of Economic Activity	p. 41
Supply and Demand: The Basics of Economic Analysis	p. 69
Introduction to Macroeconomics	p. 97
Macroeconomics Goals and Fluctuations	p. 98
Measuring Economic Performance and National Income Accounting	p. 125
Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply	p. 153
Determining Out and Employment: Keynesian Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy	p. 183
Classical Macroeconomics and the Keynesian Response	p. 184
The Keynesian Model	p. 211
Fiscal Policy	p. 241
Budget Deficits and the National Debt	p. 271
Money, Financial Markets, and Monetary Policy	p. 291
Money: What It Is and Why People Hold It	p. 292
Money Creation and the Federal Reserve System	p. 315
Financial Markets and Interest Rates	p. 343
Monetary Policy in Theory and Practice	p. 369
Inflation and Unemployment: Challenges to Demand Management	p. 399
Aggregate Supply, Growth, and Development	p. 427
Aggregate Supply and Economic Growth	p. 428
Economic Development and the Third World	p. 455
Demand and Consumer Choice	p. 481
Applications of Supply and Demand: The Basic Microeconomic Tools	p. 482
Elasticity: The Measure of Responsiveness	p. 509
Demand and Consumer Choice	p. 535
Product Markets	p. 567
Firms and Production	p. 568
Costs and Profits	p. 593
Perfect Competition	p. 613
Monopoly	p. 637
Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly	p. 665
Theory in the Real World: Regulation, Deregulation, and Antitrust Policy	p. 691
Factor Markets	p. 723
Marginal Productivity Theory and Labor Markets	p. 724
The Labor Movement in the United States	p. 749
Rent, Interest, and Profit	p. 775
Income Distribution: Poverty, Discrimination, and Welfare	p. 791
Market Failure, Government Failure, and Public Choice	p. 819
Market Failure and Government Intervention	p. 820
Government Failure and Public Choice	p. 843
Agriculture, Cities, and the Environment: Case Studies in Market Failure and Government Failure	p. 861
The World Economy	p. 889
International Trade	p. 890
International Finance	p. 913
Comparative Economic Systems in Theory and Practice	p. 933
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