TAYLOR Economics
Subtitle: For Advanced High School Courses
Edition: 4th edition
Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
Published: April 8, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 760
ISBN-13: 9780618381913
Subjects: General; Business & Economics / General; Economics - General; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics
Table of contents: title: Part one : Introduction to economics.; title: The central idea; title: Observing and explaining the economy; title: Reading, understanding, and creating graphs; title: The supply and demand model; title: Elasticity and its uses; title: Part two : Principles of microeconomics.; title: The demand curve and the behavior of consumers; title: Consumer theory with indifference curves; title: The supply curve and the behavior of firms; title: The interaction of people in markets; title: Part three : The economics of the firm.; title: Costs and changes at firms over time; title: Producer theory with isoquants; title: The rise and fall of industries; title: Monopoly; title: Product differentiation, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly; title: Antitrust policy and regulation; title: Part four : Markets, income distribution, and public goods.; title: Labor markets; title: Taxes, transfers, and income distribution; title: Public goods, externalities, and government behavior; title: Physical capital and financial markets; title: Present discounted value; title: Part five : Principles of macroeconomics.; title: Macroeconomics : the big picture; title: The miracle of compound growth; title: Measuring the production, income, and spending of nations; title: The spending allocation model; title: Unemployment and employment; title: Productivity and economic growth; title: Deriving the growth accounting formula; title: Money and inflation; title: Part six : Economic fluctuations and macroeconomic policy.; title: The nature and causes of economic fluctuations; title: Deriving the formula for the Keynesian multiplier and the forward-looking consumption model; title: The economic fluctuations model; title: Using the economic fluctuations model; title: Fiscal policy; title: Monetary policy; title: Part seven : Trade and global markets.; title: Economic growth around the world; title: The gains from international trade; title: International trade policy; title: Emerging market economics