Principles of economics
/ senior contributing authors, David Shapiro, Daniel MacDonald, Steven A. Greenlaw
- 3e
- 1 online resource (983 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 955-976) and index.
Chapter 1. Welcome to economics! Chapter 2. Choice in a world of scarcity Chapter 3. Demand and supply Chapter 4. Labor and financial markets Chapter 5. Elasticity Chapter 6. Consumer choices Chapter 7. Production, costs, and industry structure Chapter 8. Perfect competition Chapter 9. Monopoly Chapter 10. Monopolistic competition and oligopoly Chapter 11. Monopoly and antitrust policy Chapter 12. Environmental protection and negative externalities Chapter 13. Positive externalities and public goods Chapter 14. Labor markets and income Chapter 15. Poverty and economic inequality Chapter 16. Information, risk, and insurance Chapter 17. Financial markets Chapter 18. Public economy Chapter 19. The macroeconomic perspective Chapter 20. Economic growth Chapter 21. Unemployment Chapter 22. Inflation Chapter 23. The international trade and capital flows Chapter 24. The aggregate demand/aggregate supply model Chapter 25. The Keynesian perspective Chapter 26. The neoclassical perspective Chapter 27. Money and banking Chapter 28. Monetary policy and bank regulation Chapter 29. Exchange rates and international capital flows Chapter 30. Government budgets and fiscal policy Chapter 31. The impacts of government borrowing Chapter 32. Macroeconomic policy around the world Chapter 33. International trade Chapter 34. Globalization and protectionism A. The use of mathematics in principles of economics B. Indifference curves C. Present discounted value D. The expenditure-output model E. How open market operations affect balance sheets in a limited reserves environment