Description Mateer and Coppock Make Economics for Everyone
Drawing on their extensive teaching experience in the classroom and online, Mateer and Coppock continuously innovate to address the changing teaching and learning challenges faced by instructors and students. The Fourth Edition introduces new scaffolded learning pedagogy with a Norton Illumine Ebook as well as revised InQuizitive and Smartwork activities that provide personalized support and build problem-solving skills. New relevant and relatable examples ensure that students understand how their lives are influenced by economics, and rich Norton Teaching Tools resources help instructors connect with students before, during, and after class.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Five Foundations of Economics
Chapter 2: Model Building and Gains from Trade
Chapter 3: The Market at Work: Supply and Demand
Chapter 4: Elasticity
Chapter 5: Market Outcomes and Tax Incidence
Chapter 6: Price Controls
Chapter 7: Market Inefficiencies: Externalities and Public Goods
Chapter 8: Business Costs and Production
Chapter 9: Firms in a Competitive Market
Chapter 10: Understanding Monopoly
Chapter 11: Price Discrimination
Chapter 12: Monopolistic Competition and Advertising
Chapter 13: Oligopoly and Strategic Behavior
Chapter 14: The Demand and Supply of Resources
Chapter 15: Income, Inequality, and Poverty
Chapter 16: Consumer Choice
Chapter 17: Behavioral Economics and Risk Taking
Chapter 18: Health Insurance and Health Care
Chapter 19: Introduction to Macroeconomics and Gross Domestic Product
Chapter 20: Unemployment
Chapter 21: The Price Level and Inflation
Chapter 22: Savings, Interest Rates, and the Market for Loanable Funds
Chapter 23: Financial Markets and Securities
Chapter 24: Economic Growth and the Wealth of Nations
Chapter 25: Growth Theory
Chapter 26: The Aggregate Demand-Aggregate Supply Model
Chapter 27: Recessions, Expansions, and the Debate over How to Manage Them
Chapter 28: Federal Budgets: The Tools of Fiscal Policy
Chapter 29: Fiscal Policy
Chapter 30: Money and the Federal Reserve
Chapter 31: Monetary Policy
Chapter 32: International Trade
Chapter 33: International Finance
Lee Coppock, University of Virginia Dirk Mateer, University of Arizona