TY - BOOK AU - Arnold,Roger A. TI - Economics SN - 9781285738338 U1 - 330 PY - 2016///] CY - Boston, Massachusetts PB - Cengage Learning KW - Economics N1 - 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 ER -