REVEL InMicro -- Access Card

by Hubbard, R. Glenn; O'Brien, Anthony Patrick

• ISBN13: 9780134473857
• ISBN10: 013447385X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Access Card
• Copyright: 2017-07-06
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

For Principles of Microeconomics courses.

 

Best-selling authors bring real-world economics to life in a fully digital, interactive learning experience

Glenn Hubbard and Tony O’Brien engage readers in real-world economics like never before. Revel™ InMicro seamlessly integrates dynamic media into the narrative--including interactive graphing and videos; pre-built Readings with Concept Checks; and Practice, Homework, Quiz, and Test Assignments--to gauge learners’ comprehension of the material. All assignments are tracked in a performance dashboard to monitor readers’ progress in their learning, not just their problem sets. Revel InMicro makes microeconomics relevant for readers and gives them the opportunity to read, practice, and study--all in one continuous experience.

 

NOTE: Revel is a fully digital delivery of Pearson content. This ISBN is for the standalone Revel access card. In addition to this access card, you will need a course invite link, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Revel.

 

 

Author Biography

Glenn Hubbard, policymaker, professor, and researcher.

R. Glenn Hubbard is the dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University and professor of economics in Columbia’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a director of Automatic Data Processing, Black Rock Closed-End Funds, and MetLife. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1983. From 2001 to 2003, he served as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers and chairman of the OECD Economic Policy Committee, and from 1991 to 1993, he was deputy assistant secretary of the US Treasury Department. He currently serves as co-chair of the nonpartisan Committee on Capital Markets Regulation. Hubbard’s fields of specialization are public economics, financial markets and institutions, corporate finance, macroeconomics, industrial organization, and public policy. He is the author of more than 100 articles in leading journals, including American Economic Review; Brookings Papers on Economic Activity; Journal of Finance; Journal of Financial Economics; Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; Journal of Political Economy; Journal of Public Economics; Quarterly Journal of Economics; RAND Journal of Economics; and Review of Economics and Statistics. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and numerous private foundations.

 

Tony O’Brien, award-winning professor and researcher.

Anthony Patrick O’Brien is a professor of economics at Lehigh University. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987. He has taught principles of economics for more than 15 years, in both large sections and small honors classes. He received the Lehigh University Award for Distinguished Teaching. He was formerly the director of the Diamond Center for Economic Education and was named a Dana Foundation Faculty Fellow and Lehigh Class of 1961 Professor of Economics. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. O’Brien’s research has dealt with issues such as the evolution of the US automobile industry, the sources of US economic competitiveness, the development of US trade policy, the causes of the Great Depression, and the causes of black—white income differences. His research has been published in leading journals, including American Economic Review; Quarterly Journal of Economics; Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; Industrial Relations; Journal of Economic History; and Explorations in Economic History. His research has been supported by grants from government agencies and private foundations.

 

 

Table of Contents

1. Economics: Foundations and Models

      Appendix: Using Graphs and Formulas

2. Trade-offs, Comparative Advantage, and the Market System

3. Where Prices Come From: The Interaction of Demand and Supply

4. Economic Efficiency, Government Price Setting, and Taxes

      Appendix: Quantitative Demand and Supply Analysis

5. Externalities, Environmental Policy, and Public Goods

6. Elasticity: The Responsiveness of Demand and Supply

7. The Economics of Health Care

8. Firms, the Stock Market, and Corporate Governance

      Appendix: Tools to Analyze Firms’ Financial Information

9. Comparative Advantage and the Gains from International Trade

10. Consumer Choice and Behavioral Economics

      Appendix: Using Indifference Curves and Budget Lines to Understand Consumer Behavior

11. Technology, Production, and Costs

      Appendix: Using Isoquants and Isocost Lines to Understand Production and Cost

12. Firms in Perfectly Competitive Markets

13. Monopolistic Competition: The Competitive Model in a More Realistic Setting

14. Oligopoly: Firms in Less Competitive Markets

15. Monopoly and Antitrust Policy

16. Pricing Strategy

17. The Markets for Labor and Other Factors of Production

18. Public Choice, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income