Title: Economics
Authors: Samuelson, Paul A. 1915-2009.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Year: 1970
Subjects: Economics.
Contents: Introduction -- Central problems of every economic society -- Price functioning of a "mixed" economy -- Supply and demand: the bare elements -- Business organization and income -- Incomes and living standards -- Labor and industrial relations -- Economic role of government: expenditure, regulation, finance -- Economic role of government: federal taxation and local finance -- National income and product -- Saving, consumption, and investment -- Income determination: the simple multiplier theory -- Income determination: fiscal policy, inflation, and thriftness -- Business cycles and forecasting -- Prices and money -- The banking system and deposit creation -- Federal reserve and central bank monetary policy -- Synthesis of monetary analysis and income analysis -- Fiscal policy and full employment without inflation -- Determination of price by supply and demand -- Supply and demand as applied to agriculture -- The theory of demand and utility -- Competitive supply -- Analysis of costs and long-run supply -- Maximum-profit equilibrium -- Imperfect competition and antitrust policy -- Theory of production and marginal products -- Pricing of factor inputs: rents of land and other resources -- Competitive wages and collective bargaining -- Interest and capital -- Profits and incentives -- Epilogue to microeconomic pricing -- The balance of international payments -- International trade and the theory of comparative advantage -- The economics of tariff protection and free trade -- Current international economic problems -- The theory of growth -- Problems of economic growth and development -- Economic inequality: poverty, affluence, and the quality of life -- Economic problems of race, cities and the polluted environment -- Problems of growth and price stability in an advanced economy -- Alternative economic systems.