Economics
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Economics
McGraw-Hill/Irwin, c2001
4th ed., international ed
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"International edition" -- Cover
Includes index
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Written in an informal colloquial style, the authors primary concern is to instill economic sensibility in the student. Colander emphasizes the intellectual and historical context to which the economic models are applied.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Introduction: economics and economic reasoning
- the economic organization of society
- the US economy in a global setting
- supply and demand
- supply and demand in practice. Part 2 Microeconomics: describing supply and demand - elasticities
- taxation and government intervention
- the logic of individual choice - the foundation of supply and demand
- production and cost analysis I
- production and cost analysis II
- perfect competition
- monopoly
- monopolistic competition, oligopoly and strategic pricing
- growth, technology and real-world competition
- government policy and market failures
- anti-trust policy and regulation
- microeconomic policy, economic reasoning and beyond
- politics and economics - the case of agricultural markets
- international trade policy
- who gets what? - the distribution of income
- labour and resource markets. Part 3 Macroeconomics: economic growth, business cycles, unemployment and inflation
- national income accounting
- growth, productivity, and the wealth of nations
- aggregate demand, aggregate supply and the historical development of modern macroeconomics
- the multiplier model
- demand management policy
- the politics of deficits, surpluses and debt
- money, banking and the financial sector
- monetary policy
- open economy - exchange rate and trade policies
- international dimensions of monetary and fiscal policies
- inflation, unemployment and growth
- tools, rules and policies.
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