Understanding Economics 14/e (絕)
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- ISBN：9781111971595
- 作者：Sobel, Gwartney, Stroup, Macpherson
- 版次：14
- 年份：2013
- 出版商：Cengage Learning
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Understanding Economics, 14/e, International Edition reflects current economic conditions, enabling students to apply economic concepts to the world around them. The up-to-date text includes analysis and explanation of measures of economic activity in today's market. It also includes highlights of the recession of 2008-2009, and an in-depth look at the lives and contributions of notable economists. Understanding Economics, 14/e, International Edition dispels common economic myths. The text uses the "invisible hand" metaphor to explain economic theory, demonstrating how it works to stimulate the economy.
The 14th edition includes a robust set of online multimedia learning tools. Tutorials, analyses and quizzes are designed to support classroom work and increase student performance. A full Aplia course, specifically created for Understanding Economics, 14/e, International Edition is also available.
Understanding Economics, 14/e, International Edition reflects current economic conditions, enabling students to apply economic concepts to the world around them. The up-to-date text includes analysis and explanation of measures of economic activity in today's market. It also includes highlights of the recession of 2008-2009, and an in-depth look at the lives and contributions of notable economists. Understanding Economics, 14/e, International Edition dispels common economic myths. The text uses the "invisible hand" metaphor to explain economic theory, demonstrating how it works to stimulate the economy.
The 14th edition includes a robust set of online multimedia learning tools. Tutorials, analyses and quizzes are designed to support classroom work and increase student performance. A full Aplia course, specifically created for Understanding Economics, 14/e, International Edition is also available.
Features
New to This Edition
- Application boxes to help students draw parallels between economics and pertinent topics such as supply, demand, financial bailouts, capital markets, and poverty.
- Coverage of the recent stock market fallout, as well as its implications for investment decisions in today's world.
- In-depth analysis of the government response to the financial crisis--discussing both the political economy and federal budget implications.
- Section on the economic way of thinking about government, as well as updated information and data on the Great Recession and lessons learned from the Great Depression.
- Measures economic activity, assembling important indicators like the unemployment rate and digging into its meaning and relevance.
- Applies economic theory to current real-world issues and controversies, allowing students to apply what they learn directly to pertinent topics in the world around them.
- Dispels common myths of economic reasoning and examines how these myths can impede a nation's economic progress.
- Offers historical vignettes on the lives of notable economists, providing an opportunity to weave economic history into the classroom.
New to This Edition
- Text is streamlined to make it more accessible to students and instructors.
- Addenda to some chapters are moved to the text website: (chapter 6) Who Produces, Who Pays, and Why it Matters and (chapter 20) Consumer Choice and Indifference Curves.
- Material on Economics as a Career (chapter 1) is moved to the text website.
- Material on The Keynesian Aggregate Expenditure Model (chapter 11) is moved to the text website.
- Chapter 5 has a new section on Market Failure and Government Failure.
- New material on Cash for Clunkers (chapter 6) shows the short-sightedness of political action.
- Chapter 12 integrates the idea that constant policy changes generate uncertainty and undermine growth.
- A brief discussion of the Austrian view of the business cycle.
- Special Topic on Lessons from Japan and Canada.
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Special Topic "Will Americans Be Better Off in the Future?"
Table of Contents
PART I: THE ECONOMIC WAY OF THINKING.
1. The Economic Approach.
2. Some Tools of the Economist.
Part II: MARKETS AND GOVERNMENT.
3. Supply, Demand, and the Market Process.
4. Supply and Demand: Applications and Extensions.
5. Difficult Cases for the Market, and the Role of Government.
6. The Economics of Collective Decision Making.
Part III: CORE MACROECONOMICS.
7. Taking the Nation's Economic Pulse.
8. Economic Fluctuations, Unemployment, and Inflation.
9. An Introduction to Basic Macroeconomic Markets.
10. Dynamic Change, Economic Fluctuations, and the AD–AS Model.
11. Fiscal Policy: The Keynesian View and Historical Perspective.
12. Fiscal Policy: Incentives, and Secondary Effects.
13. Money and the Banking System.
14. Modern Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy.
15. Stabilization Policy, Output, and Employment.
16. Creating an Environment for Growth and Prosperity.
17. Institutions, Policies, and Cross-Country Differences in Income and Growth.
Part IV: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS.
18. Gaining from International Trade.
19. International Finance and the Foreign Exchange Market.
Part V: CORE MICROECONOMICS.
20. Consumer Choice and Elasticity.
21. Costs and the Supply of Goods.
22. Price Takers and the Competitive Process.
23. Price-Searcher Markets with Low Entry Barriers.
24. Price-Searcher Markets with High Entry Barriers.
25. The Supply of and Demand for Productive Resources.
26. Earnings, Productivity, and the Job Market.
27. Investment, the Capital Market, and the Wealth of Nations.
28. Income Inequality and Poverty.
PART I: THE ECONOMIC WAY OF THINKING.
1. The Economic Approach.
2. Some Tools of the Economist.
Part II: MARKETS AND GOVERNMENT.
3. Supply, Demand, and the Market Process.
4. Supply and Demand: Applications and Extensions.
5. Difficult Cases for the Market, and the Role of Government.
6. The Economics of Collective Decision Making.
Part III: CORE MACROECONOMICS.
7. Taking the Nation's Economic Pulse.
8. Economic Fluctuations, Unemployment, and Inflation.
9. An Introduction to Basic Macroeconomic Markets.
10. Dynamic Change, Economic Fluctuations, and the AD–AS Model.
11. Fiscal Policy: The Keynesian View and Historical Perspective.
12. Fiscal Policy: Incentives, and Secondary Effects.
13. Money and the Banking System.
14. Modern Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy.
15. Stabilization Policy, Output, and Employment.
16. Creating an Environment for Growth and Prosperity.
17. Institutions, Policies, and Cross-Country Differences in Income and Growth.
Part IV: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS.
18. Gaining from International Trade.
19. International Finance and the Foreign Exchange Market.
Part V: CORE MICROECONOMICS.
20. Consumer Choice and Elasticity.
21. Costs and the Supply of Goods.
22. Price Takers and the Competitive Process.
23. Price-Searcher Markets with Low Entry Barriers.
24. Price-Searcher Markets with High Entry Barriers.
25. The Supply of and Demand for Productive Resources.
26. Earnings, Productivity, and the Job Market.
27. Investment, the Capital Market, and the Wealth of Nations.
28. Income Inequality and Poverty.
