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Overview
Economics makes economic concepts relevant by demonstrating how real organizations apply them to make decisions every day. With ever-changing US and world economies, the 8th Edition has been updated with the latest developments using new real-world business and policy examples. Regardless of your future career path — opening an art studio, trading on Wall Street, or bartending at the local pub, you'll benefit from understanding the economic forces behind your work.
Table of contents
PART 1: INTRODUCTION
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
PART 2: MARKETS IN ACTION: POLICY AND APPLICATIONS
5. Externalities, Environmental Policy, and Public Goods
6. Elasticity: The Responsiveness of Demand and Supply
7. The Economics of Health Care
PART 3: FIRMS IN THE DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIES
8. Firms, the Stock Market, and Corporate Governance
Appendix: Present Value
Online Appendix: Tools to Analyze Firms’ Financial Information
9. Comparative Advantage and the Gains from International Trade
PART 4: MICROECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS: CONSUMERS AND FIRMS
10. Consumer Choice and Behavioral Economics
Appendix: Using Indifference Curves and Budget Lines to Understand Consumer Behavior
11. Technology, Production, and Costs
Online Appendix: Using Isoquants and Isocost Lines to Understand Production and Cost
PART 5: MARKET STRUCTURE AND FIRM STRATEGY
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
PART 6: LABOR MARKETS, PUBLIC CHOICE, AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME
16. The Markets for Labor and Other Factors of Production
17. Public Choice, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income
PART 7: MACROECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS AND LONG-RUN GROWTH
18. GDP: Measuring Total Production and Income
19. Unemployment and Inflation
20. Economic Growth, the Financial System, and Business Cycles
21. Long-Run Economic Growth: Sources and Policies
PART 8: SHORT-RUN FLUCTUATIONS
22. Aggregate Expenditure and Output in the Short Run
Appendix: The Algebra of Macroeconomic Equilibrium
23. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply Analysis
Appendix: Macroeconomic Schools of Thought
PART 9: MONETARY AND FISCAL POLICY
24. Money, Banks, and the Federal Reserve System
25. Monetary Policy
26. Fiscal Policy
Appendix: A Closer Look at the Multiplier
27. Inflation, Unemployment, and Federal Reserve Policy
PART 10: THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY
28. Macroeconomics in an Open Economy
Online Appendix: The Gold Standard and the Bretton Woods System
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