The American economy
Subtitle: a student study guide
By: Wade L. Thomas, Robert B. Carson
Contributors: Carson, Robert Barry, 1934-
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe; Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
ISBN-13: 9780765607591
Subjects: Economic policy; Study guides; Economic conditions; Examinations
Notes: A student study guide to accompany the principle work, 'The American economy : how it works and how it doesn't'.
Table of contents: title: Toward a twenty-first century economic agenda : goals and possibilities; title: The market economy : pure and simple; title: Government in the economy : the limits of intervention; title: The historical foundation of American economic institutions and ideas; title: When firms act as price makers : competition versus monopoly; title: The economics of externalities and the environment; title: Health care issues; title: Factor markets : pricing and productivity; title: The distribution of income : dividing the economic pie; title: Government expenditures and taxation; title: Accounting for economic fluctuations : aggregate demand and aggregate supply analysis; title: Maintaining a rising level of output : the importance of economic growth; title: Employment and unemployment : who is out of work and why?; title: The federal debt and deficit crisis : the limits of fiscal policy; title: Keeping inflation under control : the limits of monetary policy; title: America in the world : international trade; title: America in the world : international finance.