Economics (with CourseMate and ebook Access Card)

Mark Taylor, N. Mankiw (Autoren)

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928 Seiten

2011 | 2nd edition
Cengage Learning EMEA
978-1-4080-4870-2 (ISBN)

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"Mankiw/Taylor Text & Coursemate".

Now firmly established as one of the leading economics principles texts in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, this highly anticipated second edition of Economics by N. Gregory Mankiw (Harvard University) and Mark Taylor (Warwick University) will further enhance the book’s reputation for clarity, authority and real-world relevance.

This Second Edition provides:
• New case studies and news articles providing relevant and topical insights into real life economics from UK, Europe, Middle East, and South Africa

• Two new chapters, one offering highly topical and in-depth coverage of the causes and effects of the global financial crisis and one covering Keynesian economics and IS-LM analysis

• An introduction to the latest thinking in economics, particularly regarding some aspects of behavioural economics, to help students see different explanations for economic phenomena

• An emphasis throughout on ‘thinking like an economist’ – adopting the tools, methods and concepts economists use in addressing problems and issues

Economics is essential reading for all students taking introductory economics modules on undergraduate courses. It is also suitable for use with the economics component of MBA courses.

Economics is also accompanied by Aplia, an online, interactive, auto-graded assignment setting tool. For more information about Aplia please visit: www.aplia.com/cengageemea

Mark P. Taylor is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He obtained his first degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University. He then worked as a foreign exchange dealer in London for two years while simultaneously studying part-time for a master?s degree in economics at London University, from where he also holds a doctorate in economics. Professor Taylor has taught economics at various universities (including Warwick, Oxford, Marseille and New York), at various levels (from principles courses to advanced graduate and MBA courses) and in various fields (including macroeconomics, microeconomics and econometrics). He also worked for several years as a senior economist at the International Monetary Fund and before that at the Bank of England. His work has been extensively published in scholarly journals, such as the Journal of Political Economy and the Economic Journal, and he is today one of the most highly cited economists in the world in economic research. In addition, Professor Taylor has acted as an advisor to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Bank of England, the European Commission and to senior members of the UK government. He is a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a member of council of the Royal Economic Society, and a fellow of both the Royal Statistical Society and the Royal Society of Arts. Professor Taylor lives (with his wife and three children and his three dogs named Byron, Shelley and Aphra) near Kenilworth, Warwickshire (where he collects clocks and keeps bees). N. Gregory Mankiw is Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He studied economics at Princeton University and MIT. Dr. Mankiw is a prolific writer and a regular participant in academic and policy debates. His research includes work on price adjustment, consumer behavior, financial markets, monetary and fiscal policy, and economic growth. His published articles have appeared in academic journals, such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics, and in more widely accessible forums, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Fortune. Dr. Mankiw has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Congressional Budget Office, and a member of the ETS test development committee for the advanced placement exam in economics. From 2003 to 2005, he served as chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

PART 1 Introduction
1 Ten Principles of Economics
2 Thinking Like an Economist
3 Interdependence and the Gains From Trade

PART 2 Supply and Demand I: How Markets Work
4 The Market Forces of Supply and Demand
5 Elasticity and its Application
6 Supply, Demand and Government Policies

PART 3 Supply and Demand II: Markets and Welfare
7 Consumers, Producers and the Efficiency of Markets
8 Application: The Costs of Taxation
9 Application: International Trade

PART 4 The Economics of the Public Sector
10 Externalities
11 Public Goods and Common Resources
12 The Design of the Tax System

PART 5 Firm Behaviour and the Organization of Industry
13 The Costs of Production
14 Firms in Competitive Markets
15 Monopoly
16 Monopolistic Competition
17 Oligopoly

PART 6 The Economics of Labour Markets
18 The Markets for the Factors of Production
19 Earnings and Discrimination
20 Income Inequality and Poverty

PART 7 Topics for Further Study
21 The Theory of Consumer Choice
22 Frontiers of Microeconomics

PART 8 The Data of Macroeconomics
23 Measuring a Nation’s Income
24 Measuring the Cost of Living

PART 9 The Real Economy in the Long Run
25 Production and Growth
26 Saving, Investment and the Financial System
27 The Basic Tools of Finance
28 Unemployment

PART 10 Money and Prices in the Long Run
29 The Monetary System
30 Money Growth and Inflation

PART 11 The Macroeconomics of Open Economies
31 Open-Economy Macroeconomics: Basic Concepts
32 A Macroeconomic Theory of the Open Economy

PART 12 Short-Run Economic Fluctuations
33 Keynes and IS-LM Analysis
34 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
35 The Influence of Monetary and Fiscal Policy on Aggregate Demand
36 The Short-Run Trade-Off Between Inflation and Unemployment

PART 13 Topics in International Finance and Macroeconomics
37 The Financial Crisis
38 Common Currency Areas and European Monetary Union

PART 14 Final Thoughts
39 Five Debates over Macroeconomic Policy

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.3.2011
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	1823 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-4080-4870-1 / 1408048701
ISBN-13	978-1-4080-4870-2 / 9781408048702
Zustand	Neuware