TY - BOOK AU - Miller,Roger LeRoy TI - Understanding modern economics T2 - Addison-Wesley series in economics SN - 0321248473 U1 - 330 PY - 2005///] CY - Boston, MA PB - Pearson Addison Wesley KW - Economics N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; An introduction to economics; Economics and the world of scarcity; The U.S. within the world economy; Microeconomics; Demand and supply; Consumer decision making and consumer reaction to price changes; Business firms face their costs; The two extremes: perfect competition and pure monopoly; In between the extremes: imperfect competition; Market and government failures; Labor economics; Macroeconomics; Unemployment, inflation, and the business cycle; Aggregate demand and supply; The fiscal policy approach to stabilization; Money and our banking system; The monetary policy approach to stabilization; How economies grow; International; Trading with other nations; Financing world trade ER -