Economics

Author(s)

• Slavin, Stephen L.

Bibliographic Information

Economics

Stephen L. Slavin

Irwin/McGraw-Hill, c1999

5th ed

• pbk.

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Including problems, exercises and further study issues, this text provides comprehensive coverage of the field of economics.

Table of Contents

• A brief economic history of the United States
• resource utilisation
• supply and demand
• the mixed economy
• the consumption sector
• the business-investment sector
• the government sector
• gross domestic product
• economic fluctuations, unemployment, and inflation
• classical and Keynesian economics
• fiscal policy and the national debt
• money and banking
• the federal reserve growth and productivity
• applications in supply and demand
• demand, utility and consumer surplus
• supply
• cost and profit
• supply in the short run and the long run
• perfect competition
• monopoly
• monopolistic competition
• oligopoly
• the four types of competition - a review
• corporate mergers
• labour unions
• labour markets and wage rates
• rent, interest, and profit
• income distribution and poverty
• international trade
• international finance.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA43781531
• ISBN:
  • 0256263264
• LCCN: 98016402
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boston, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 821 p.
• Size: 28 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 330
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Economics