Economics
2nd Edition
Published on 6. August 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
1152 pages
978-1-260-08328-6 (ISBN)
Description
Built to focus on what matters to students in today's high-tech, globalized world, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Morduch's Economics represents a new generation of products, optimized for digital delivery and available with best-in-class adaptive study resources in Mc-Graw Hill Connect. The second edition delivers core economic concepts along with exciting new ideas in economic though and strives to keep students engaged by confronting issues that are important in the world. This text combines a familiar curriculum with material from new research and applied areas such as finance, behavioral economics, and the political economy. Students and faculty will find content that breaks down barriers between what takes place in the classroom and what happens in our nation and broader world, with applications that are driven by empirical evidence, data, and research.Karlan and Morduch show students that economics is a tool to better one's own life and promote better publish and business policies in the world. At the same time, this second edition challenges students to reach their own conclusions about what "better" really means.
More details
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
OH
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 213 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
1840 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-260-08328-6 (9781260083286)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
PART 1 The Power of Economics
1 Economics and Life
2 Specialization and Exchange
PART 2 Supply and Demand
3 Markets
4 Elasticity
5 Efficiency
6 Government Intervention
PART 3 Individual Decisions
7 Consumer Behavior
8 Behavioral Economics: A Closer Look at Decision Making
9 Game theory and Strategic Thinking
10 Information
11 Time and Uncertainty
PART 4 Firm Decisions
12 The Costs of Production
13 Perfect Competition
14 Monopoly
15 Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
16 The Factors of Production
17 International Trade
PART 5 Public Economics
18 Externalities
19 Public Goods and Common Resources
20 Taxation and the Public Budget
21 Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination
22 Political Choices
23 Public Policy and Choice Architecture
PART 6 The Data of Macroeconomics
24 Measuring GDP
25 The Cost of Living
PART 7 Labor Markets and Economic Growth
26 Unemployment and the Labor Market
27 Economic Growth
PART 8 The Economy in the Short and Long Run
28 Aggregate Expenditure
29 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
30 Fiscal Policy
PART 9: The Financial System and Institutions
31 The Basics of Finance
32 Money and the Monetary System
33 Inflation
34 Financial Crisis
PART 10: International Policy Issues
35 Open-Market Macroeconomics
36 Development Economics
1 Economics and Life
2 Specialization and Exchange
PART 2 Supply and Demand
3 Markets
4 Elasticity
5 Efficiency
6 Government Intervention
PART 3 Individual Decisions
7 Consumer Behavior
8 Behavioral Economics: A Closer Look at Decision Making
9 Game theory and Strategic Thinking
10 Information
11 Time and Uncertainty
PART 4 Firm Decisions
12 The Costs of Production
13 Perfect Competition
14 Monopoly
15 Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
16 The Factors of Production
17 International Trade
PART 5 Public Economics
18 Externalities
19 Public Goods and Common Resources
20 Taxation and the Public Budget
21 Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination
22 Political Choices
23 Public Policy and Choice Architecture
PART 6 The Data of Macroeconomics
24 Measuring GDP
25 The Cost of Living
PART 7 Labor Markets and Economic Growth
26 Unemployment and the Labor Market
27 Economic Growth
PART 8 The Economy in the Short and Long Run
28 Aggregate Expenditure
29 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
30 Fiscal Policy
PART 9: The Financial System and Institutions
31 The Basics of Finance
32 Money and the Monetary System
33 Inflation
34 Financial Crisis
PART 10: International Policy Issues
35 Open-Market Macroeconomics
36 Development Economics