Economics Plus MyEconLab and CourseCompass student access kit, 7/e

Michael Parkin, Melanie Powell, Kent Matthews (Autoren)

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2010 | 7th edition
Addison Wesley
978-1-4082-6868-1 (ISBN)

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Economics touches almost every aspect of life, from climate change, terrorism and the development of new drugs, to taxes, house prices, wages, what to eat for dinner and how much time to spend studying. Thinking like an economist will enable you to understand human behaviour, make more informed decisions, and evaluate economic policies.

The leading economists in the news today started out like you, as students taking a course in the principles of economics. Like them, you can learn to think like an economist, and this book will show you how.

Economics, Seventh Edition, introduces the central ideas of economics and explains them using a straightforward, precise and clear writing style.

Michael Parkin is Professor Emeritus at the Universityof Western Ontario and author of the best-selling US textbook, Economics, now specially adapted in European, Canadian, Australian, French, Latin American and Chinese editions and used by over a million students across the world. Melanie Powell is Reader in Economics at Derby University Business School Kent Matthews is the Sir Julian Hodge Professor of Banking and Finance at the CardiffBusinessSchool.

Part 1 The Scope of Economics
Chapter 1: What is Economics
Chapter 1 Appendix Graphs in Economics
Chapter 2: The Economic Problem

Part 2 How Markets Work

Chapter 3 Demand and Supply
Chapter 4 Elasticity
Chapter 5 Efficiency and Equity
Chapter 6 Markets in Action
Chapter 7 Global Markets in Action (NEW)

Part 3 Households, Firms and Markets

Chapter 8 Households' Choices
Chapter 9 Organizing Production
Chapter 10 Output and Costs
Chapter 10 Appendix Producing at Least Cost
Chapter 11 Perfect Competition
Chapter 12 Monopoly
Chapter 13 Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly

Part 4 Government, Income, Distribution and Uncertainty

Chapter 14 Government Regulation and Competition Policy
Chapter 15 Externalities
Chapter 16 Public Goods and Common Resources
Chapter 17 The Markets for the Factor of Production
Chapter 17 Appendix Present Value and Discounting
Chapter 18 Economic Inequality and Redistribution
Chapter 19 Uncertainty and Information

Part 5 Macroeconomic Overview

Chapter 20 A First Look at Macroeconomics
Chapter 21 Measuring GDP and Economic Growth
Chapter 22 Monitoring Jobs and the Price Level
Chapter 23 Aggregate Suppl and Aggregate Demand
Chapter 24 In the Long Run: The Classical Model
Chapter 25 In the Short Run: The Keynesian Model

Part 6 Macroeconomic Policy

Chapter 26 Fiscal Policy
Chapter 27 The Monetary System
Chapter 28 Monetary Policy
Chapter 29 Fiscal and Monetary Interactions
Chapter 28 Appendix The IS-LM Model of Aggregate Demand
Chapter 30 Inflation
Chapter 31 Economic Growth
Chapter 32 The Business Cycle
Chapter 33 International Finance

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.8.2010
Verlagsort	Harlow
Sprache	englisch
Maße	196 x 266 mm
Gewicht	1640 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-4082-6868-X / 140826868X
ISBN-13	978-1-4082-6868-1 / 9781408268681
Zustand	Neuware