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Economics for Today 11/e

作者：Irvin B. Tucker
原價：NT$ 1,680

ISBN：9789815119381
版次：11
年份：2023
出版商：Cengage Learning
頁數/規格：880頁/平裝彩色
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Overview
Master current economic concepts with the most reader-friendly economics text available -- ECONOMICS FOR TODAY, 11E by national award-winning author Irvin Tucker. No matter what your current level of economic understanding, this edition provides an interesting writing style, unique presentation and visual learning system with helpful, colorful graphs that clarify important economic principles and effectively explain the latest economic developments. Rather than presenting a confusing array of economic analyses for you to memorize, this edition demonstrates how to apply basic economic principles in daily life and recognize economics at work in today's news. You study the latest information on economic growth, income distribution, federal deficits, environmental issues, and other emerging developments in economics. Learning tools, road maps and corresponding interactive, digital MindTap resources with videos, tutorials and practice exercises immediately reinforce your understanding.

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What's New

THE LATEST CLEAR INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS CORRESPOND SEAMLESSLY TO ONLINE HOMEWORK PROBLEMS. Your students can now learn from online feedback and digital instruction that incorporates a student-focused approach that is consistent with the reader-friendly narrative in the printed book.

CHOICES FOR CUSTOMIZING IN MINDTAP OFFER ULTIMATE TEACHING FLEXIBILITY. You are able to rearrange chapters and customize or print online chapters. You can even add any optional topics you desire, including your own research and notes or specialized topics drawn from the Cengage Economics Issues database.

DISTINCTIVE "ROAD MAPS" REVIEW KEY MATERIAL FROM EACH PART. To reinforce concepts "Road Maps" conclude each part and present review questions, organized by chapter. Questions correspond with MindTap to offer opportunities for interactive review.

UPDATED FEATURES CONNECT ECONOMIC CONCEPTS TO THE LATEST REAL-WORLD CHALLENGES. This edition offers new "A Closer Look" all-encompassing features that combine the previous edition's insights from "You’re the Economist" and "Global Economics" features. Both "A Closer Look" and "Checkpoint" features highlight the clear connections between key concepts introduced in this edition and the real-world issues and problems that students encounter every day.

REVISED END-OF-CHAPTER SAMPLE QUIZZES BETTER REFLECT CHAPTER CONCEPTS TO PREPARE STUDENTS. These helpful practice and study tools provide important review to prepare your students to succeed on tests.

IMPROVED TEST BANK ACCURATELY EVALUATES AND MEASURES STUDENT LEARNING. The author team has carefully assessed and improved this edition's Test Bank to ensure that it adequately covers the breadth and depth of concepts and that it properly gauges your students' mastery of the material.

UPDATED INSTRUCTOR’S MANUAL PROVIDES VALUABLE COURSE ASSISTANCE. This edition's helpful Instructor's Manual offers chapter outlines, clear instructional objectives, critical-thinking and group discussion questions and even classroom games as well as tips and insights for engaging and involving students in your course. You can also easily locate answers to the "Analyze the Issue" questions in addition to answers to even-numbered questions and problems and summary quizzes.

ONLINE EXERCISES SPARK STUDENTS' EXCITEMENT ABOUT ECONOMIC RESEARCH ON THE INTERNET. Meaningful exercises for each chapter require students to access online economic data and answer questions related to the content of the chapter. All Internet exercises appear on the MindTap for Tucker accompanying website with direct links to the online addresses. With this time-saving help, students can avoid the tedious and error-prone task of pasting links.

OUTSTANDING VISUAL SUMMARIES WRAP UP KEY POINTS FROM EACH CHAPTER. Each chapter ends with a brief point-by-point summary of the key concepts. Many of these summarized points include miniaturized versions of the important graphs that illustrate key concepts. These serve as visual reminders for your students as they finish the chapters. They are also useful in reviewing and studying for quizzes and exams.

CAREFULLY REVIEWED AND MODIFIED HOMEWORK QUESTIONS, POWERED BY APLIA, CORRESPOND SEAMLESSLY TO THE PRINTED BOOK'S CONTENT. The author team has reviewed and revised all Aplia question sets to eliminate any potential disconnects between text content and the online test questions that are too often found in competing textbooks. In addition, this edition provides digital versions of all end-of-chapter Study Questions and Problems to give you even more assessments to choose for your students.

CAUSATION CHAIN ONLINE GAME HELPS STUDENTS VISUALIZE COMPLEX ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS. A favorite with instructors like you, Tucker's highly successful Causation Chains are included under many graphs throughout this edition. This learning device helps students visualize complex economic relationships using simple box diagrams that illustrate how one change causes another change. Each causation chain in the printed book has a corresponding, animated Causation Chain Game online within MindTap. This game makes it fun to learn and easy to succeed.

Table of Contents
Part I: INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS.
1. Introducing the Economic Way of Thinking.
2. Production Possibilities, Opportunity Cost, and Economic Growth.

Part II: MICROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS.
3. Market Demand and Supply.
4. Markets in Action.
5. Elasticity.
6. Consumer Choice Theory.
7. Production Costs.

Part III. MARKET STRUCTURES.
8. Perfect Competition.
9. Monopoly.
10. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly.
11. Labor Markets.

Part IV: MICROECONOMIC POLICY ISSUES.
12. Income Distribution, Poverty, and Discrimination.
13. Antitrust and Regulation.
14. Environmental Economics.

PART V: MACROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS.
15. Gross Domestic Product.
16. Business Cycles and Unemployment.
17. Inflation.

Part VI: MACROECONOMIC THEORY AND POLICY.
18. The Keynesian Model.
19. The Keynesian Model in Action.
20. Aggregate Demand and Supply.
21. Fiscal Policy.
22. The Public Sector.
23. Federal Deficits, Surpluses, and the National Debt.

Part VII: MONEY, BANKING, AND MONETARY POLICY.
24. Money and the Federal Reserve System.
25. Money Creation.
26. Monetary Policy.
27. The Phillips Curve and Expectations Theory.

Part VIII: THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY.
28. International Trade and Finance.
29. Economies in Transition.
30. Growth and the Less-Developed Countries.

Glossary.
Index.

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.

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