Basic economics
By: Edwin G. Dolan, with the collaboration of David E. Lindsey.
Contributors: Lindsey, David Earl.
Publisher: Dryden Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Hinsdale, Ill
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 630
ISBN-13: 9780030897436
Subjects: Economics.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [617]-619.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Part one : An overview of the market economy.; title: What economics is all about; title: Appendix : Working with graphs; title: The price system and the market economy; title: Supply and demand : the basics; title: The role of government in the economy; title: Part two : National income, inflation, and unemployment.; title: The circular flow of income and product; title: Measuring national income and product; title: Economic growth and living standards; title: The determinants of planned expenditure; title: The multiplier theory of national income determination; title: Fiscal policy and the multiplier theory; title: Appendix : An algebraic approach to income determination and the multiplier; title: The banking system and the supply of money; title: The demand for money and the money market; title: The interaction of money and the multiplier; title: Appendix : The elementary algebra of money and income determination; title: Unemployment and inflation : the problem and some traditional answers; title: A closer look at unemployment; title: A closer look at inflation; title: Appendix : Inflation and the money market; title: The future of stabilization policy; title: Part three : the theory of prices and markets.; title: Supply and demand : building on the basics; title: The logic of consumer choice; title: Appendix : An introduction to indifference curves; title: Advertising and the consumer; title: The nature of the firm; title: The theory of cost; title: Cost and production problems of business management; title: The firm as price taker : supply under perfect competition; title: Agricultural markets : competition in action; title: Monopoly and imperfect competition; title: Government policy toward monopoly; title: Government as regulator and producer; title: Part four : Factor markets and income distribution.; title: Factor markets and marginal productivity theory; title: Labor unions and collective bargaining; title: Rent, interest, and profits; title: The problem of poverty; title: Part five : The economics of life on a small planet.; title: The economics of pollution; title: Population, resources, and the economic future; title: Economic development in a world of scarcity; title: Part six : International economics.; title: International trade and comparative advantages; title: The balance of payments and the international monetary system; title: Part seven : Economic systems compared.; title: Capitalism versus socialism; title: The Soviet economy; title: Glossary; title: Suggestions for further reading