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Nelson Australia
978-0-17-016013-1 (ISBN)
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Fully revised and updated, this third edition of Economics for Today, is written specifically for the increasing number of business students undertaking a one-semester course in economics. Presented in a concise, easy-to-read style, the text offers a unique blend of solid theoretical content and student accessibility, covering all the basics of microeconomics and macroeconomics in clear and simple terms.
Theory is illustrated using examples drawn from recent real world events in Australian, New Zealand and South-East Asian economies. Data, exhibits and articles have been thoroughly updated and contemporary policy issues such as those relating to the environment, minimum wages, foreign exchange and tariff protection are addressed. With increasing emphasis being given to ethics in modern business courses, treatment of ethical issues is also highlighted throughout the text.
This engaging and user-friendly text is indispensible for modern business students undertaking study in economics.
Professor Allan Layton, BEcon. (Hons), MEcon., PhD, received his doctorate from the University of Queensland in 1982. Since then he has held academic posts at La Trobe University, Griffith University, Macquarie University, Columbia University in the USA, the University of Queensland, and the Queensland University of Technology (where he was Head of School of Economics and Public Policy, from 1992 to 1995, and then Head of School of Economics and Finance, from 1995 to 2005). Since 2006 he has been at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) and, in mid-2013, completed a seven-year period as Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law. He continues at USQ as Professor of Economics and his research and teaching interests span international business-cycle analysis, financial and monetary economics, macroeconomic policy and applied econometrics. Professor Tim Robinson, BEcon. (Hons), PhD (Qld), worked in the private sector for seven years prior to embarking upon an academic career. Part of his time in the private sector was spent running his own small business. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Economics at Queensland University of Technology where he previously held the position of Professor and Head of School of Economics and Finance. As well as having taught introductory and intermediate economics at a number of universities over many years, he has also published in the areas of environmental economics, applied welfare economics, history of economic thought, the teaching of economics, and the new economy. Books he has authored or co-authored include Economic Theories of Exhaustible Resources, Work, Leisure and the Environment; Macroeconomics: A Contemporary Introduction and Microeconomics: A Contemporary Introduction. He has also undertaken economic consulting work in the areas of curriculum development, financial investment, taxation, and the environment. Dr. Irvin B. Tucker spent more than 30 years teaching introductory economics at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. He earned his B.S. in economics at North Carolina State University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of South Carolina. He was a long-time member of the National Council on Economic Education. Dr. Tucker served as executive director of the S.C. Council of Education and director of the Center for Economic Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He was recognized for his ability to relate basic principles to economic issues and public policy. His work has received national recognition with awards, including the Meritorious Levy Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education, the Federation of Independent Business Award for Postsecondary Educator of the Year in Entrepreneurship and Economic Education and the Freedom Foundation's George Washington Medal for Excellence in Economic Education. In addition, Dr. Tucker's research has been published in numerous professional journal articles on a wide range of topics, including industrial organization, entrepreneurship and economics of education. In addition to this title, Dr. Tucker authored other highly successful economics books that have shaped students' lives and impacted economics education.
Part 1: Introduction to economics
1. Introducing the economic way of thinking
Appendix to Chapter 1: Applying graphs to economics
2. Production possibilities and opportunity cost
3. Market demand and supply
4. Markets in action
Part 2: Microeconomic fundamentals
5. Elasticity of demand and supply
6. Production costs
Part 3: Market structures
7. Perfect competition
8. Monopoly
9. Monopolistic competition and oligopoly
10. Labour markets and microeconomic reform
Part 4: Macroeconomic fundamentals
11. Measuring the size of the economy
12. Business cycles and economic growth
13. Inflation and unemployment
Part 5: Macroeconomic theory and policy
14. A simple model of the macro economy
Appendix to Chapter 14: Further on the aggregate demand-output model:The Keynesian Cross
15. The monetary and financial system
16. Macroeconomic policy I: monetary policy
17. Macroeconomic policy II: fiscal policy
Part 6: Further aspects of international economics
18. International trade and finance
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.4.2010 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 185 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 986 g |
| Themenwelt | Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre |
| ISBN-10 | 0-17-016013-0 / 0170160130 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-17-016013-1 / 9780170160131 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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