Economics
/ Roger A. Arnold
- Twelfth edition
- xxxii, 976 pages : color illustrations
Includes index.
Part 1. Economics : the science of scarcity Chapter 1. What economics is about Chapter 2. Production possibilities frontier framework Chapter 3. Supply and demand : theory Chapter 4. Prices : free, controlled, and relative Chapter 5. Supply, demand, and price : applications Part 2. Macroeconomics fundamentals Chapter 6. Macroeconomic measurements, part I : prices and unemployment Chapter 7. Macroeconomic measurements, part II : GDP and real GDP Part 3. Macroeconomic stability, instability, and fiscal policy Chapter 8. Aggregate demand and aggregate supply Chapter 9. Classical macroeconomics and self-regulating economy Chapter 10. Keynesian macroeconomics and economic instability : a critique of the self-regulating economy Chapter 11. Fiscal policy and the federal budget Part 4. Money, the economy, and monetary policy Chapter 12. Money, banking, and the financial system Chapter 13. The federal reserve system Chapter 14. Money and the economy Chapter 15. Monetary policy Part 5. Expectations and growth Chapter 16. Expectations theory and the economy Chapter 17. Economic growth : resources, technology, ideas, and institutions Part 6. The financial crisis of 2007-2009 Chapter 18. The financial crisis of 2007-2009 Part 7. Government and the economy Chapter 19. Debates in macroeconomics over the role and effects of government Part 8. Microeconomics fundamentals Chapter 20. Elasticity Chapter 21. Consumer choice : maximizing utility and behavioral economics Chapter 22. Production and costs Part 9. Product markets and policies Chapter 23. Perfect competition Chapter 24. Monopoly Chapter 25. Monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and game theory Chapter 26. Government and product markets : antitrust and regulation Part 10. Factor markets and related issues Chapter 27. Factor markets : with emphasis on the labor market Chapter 28. Wages, unions, and labor Chapter 29. The distribution of income and poverty Chapter 30. Interest, rent, and profit Part 11. Market failure, public choice, and special-interest group politics Chapter 31. Market failure : externalities, public goods, and asymmetric information Chapter 32. Public choice and special-interest group politics Part 12. Economics theory-building and everyday life Chapter 33. Building theories to explain everyday life : from observations to questions to theories to predictions Part 13. International economics and globalization Chapter 34. International trade Chapter 35. International finance Chapter 36. Globalization and international impacts on the economy Chapter 37. The economic case for and against government : five topics considered Chapter 38. Stocks, bonds, futures, and options Chapter 39. Agriculture : problems, policies, and unintended effects