Economics Today : With Economics in Action 2001-2002 Version
- ISBN13:
9780321085016
- ISBN10:
0321085019
- Edition: CD
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2000-07-01
- Publisher: Pearson College Div
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Summary
The 2001-2002 Edition of Economics Today presents economic principles within the context of the sweeping changes occurring in the economic landscape, including the Internet explosion and e-commerce boom, East Asian recession, expansion of global trade and investment, and concerns about inflation and rising interest rates closer to home. Economics Today clearly outlines the core principles of economics, so that students can fully understand and analyze these and other developments. All of the text's 150 new examples have been selected to grab and hold students' attention. These examples serve one basic purposeto drive home the application of the theory just presented. New chapters explore the future of Social Security (6) and the emerging world of electronic banking (16).
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| The Nature of Economics | |
| Scarcity and the World of Trace-Offs | |
| Demand and Supply | |
| Extensions of Demand and Supply Analysis | |
| The Public Sector and Public Choice | |
| Your Future with Social Security | |
| Introduction to Macroeconomics and Economic Growth | |
| The Macroeconomy: Unemployment, Inflation, and Deflation | |
| Measuring the Economy's Performance | |
| Global Economic Growth and Development | |
| National Income Determination and Fiscal Policy | |
| Real GDP and the Price Level in the Long Run | |
| Classical and Keynesian Macro Analyses | |
| Consumption, Income, and the Multiplier | |
| Fiscal Policy | |
| Money, Monetary Policy, and Stabilization | |
| Money and Banking Systems | |
| Money Creation, Payment Systems, and Deposit Insurance | |
| Electronic Banking | |
| Domestic and International Monetary Policy | |
| Stabilization in an Integrated World Economy | |
| Dimensions of Microeconomics | |
| Consumer Choice | |
| Demand and Supply Elasticity | |
| The Global Financial Environment of Business | |
| Market Structure, Resource Allocation, and Regulation | |
| The Firm: Cost and Output Determination | |
| Perfect Competition | |
| Monopoly | |
| Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly, and Strategic Behavior | |
| Regulation and Antitrust Policy in a World of Multinational Firms | |
| Productive Factors, Poverty, Health Care, and the Environment | |
| Labor Demand and Supply | |
| Unions and Labor Market Monopoly Power | |
| Rent, Interest, and Profits | |
| Income, Poverty, and Health Care | |
| Environmental Economics | |
| Global Economics | |
| Comparative Advantage and the Open Economy | |
| Exchange Rates and the Balance of Payments | |
| Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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