Building on the tremendous success of their best-selling Economics, Brue, McConnell, and Flynn have revised their one-semester approach in Essentials of Economics, 3e to provide a fresh alternative for the survey course. The result is a patient, substantive treatment of micro and macro topics appropriate for the introductory economics student, and fully integrated in the digital environment to provide instant remediation and feedback through McGraw-Hill’s innovative assessment tool Connect Plus Economics. McGraw-Hill’s adaptive learning component, LearnSmart, provides assignable modules that help students master core concepts in the course.
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Provides a fresh alternative for the survey course. This title also provides assignable modules that help students master core concepts in the course.
PART ONE: Introduction1 Limits, Alternatives, and Choices2The Market System and the Circular FlowPART TWO: Price, Quantity, and Efficiency3Demand, Supply, and Market Equilibrium4Elasticity of Demand and Supply5Market Failures: Public Goods and ExternalitiesPART THREE: Product Markets6Businesses and Their Costs7Pure Competition8Pure Monopoly9Monopolistic Competition and OligopolyPART FOUR: GDP, Growth and Instability10GDP and Economic Growth11Business Cycles, Unemployment, and Inflation12Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply13Fiscal Policy, Deficits, and DebtPART FIVE: Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy14Money, Banking, and Financial Institutions15Interest Rates and Monetary PolicyPART SIX: International Economics16International Trade and Exchange Rates
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781259060403
Publisert
2013-02-16
Utgave
3. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
McGraw-Hill Education
Vekt
1093 gr
Høyde
259 mm
Bredde
206 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
496

Biographical note

Stanley L. Brue did his undergraduate work at Augustana College (South Dakota) and received its Distinguished Achievement Award in 1991. He received his Ph.D. from the University of NebraskaLincoln. He is a professor at Pacific Lutheran University, where he has been honored as a recipient of the Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award. Professor Brue has also received the national Leavey Award for excellence in economic education. He has served as national president and chair of the Board of Trustees of Omicron Delta Epsilon International Economics Honorary. He is coauthor of Economic Scenes, Fifth edition (Prentice-Hall), Contemporary Labor Economics, Seventh edition, Essentials of Economics, First edition (both The McGraw-Hill Companies), and The Evolution of Economic Thought, Seventh edition (South-Western). Campbell R. McConnell earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa after receiving degrees from Cornell College and the University of Illinois. He taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1953 until his retirement in 1990. He is also coauthor of Contemporary Labor Economics, Seventh edition, and Essentials of Economics, First edition (both The McGraw-Hill Companies), and has edited readers for the principles and labor economics courses. He is a recipient of both the University of Nebraska Distinguished Teaching Award and the James A. Lake Academic Freedom Award, and is past-president of the Midwest Economics Association. Professor McConnell was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Cornell College in 1973 and received its Distinguished Achievement Award in 1994. Sean is an assistant professor of economics at Scripps College in Claremont, California. He is the author of the international best seller "Economics for Dummies" as well as the coauthor, along with Campbell McConnell and Stanley Brue, of the world's best-selling college economics textbook, "Economics: Principles, Problems, and Policies". An avid martial artist, Sean is a former Aikido national champion and has coached five of his students to U.S. national aikido titles. A recurring commentator on FOX Business, ABC News, and NPR, Sean holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. in economics from U.C. Berkeley, where he completed his dissertation under the supervision of Nobel Laureate George Akerlof. Sean's research focuses on the often puzzling and seemingly irrational behavior of stock market investors, but he's also investigated topics as wide-ranging as the factors that affect customer tipping behavior at restaurants and why you see a lot of unionized workers only in certain industries.