Robert C. Guell, Guell Robert

Issues in Economics Today

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert Guells Issues in Economics Today employs a unique format that allows instructors and students the flexibility to choose which issues they wish to cover in their one-semester survey course. The book begins with eight intensive core theory chapters followed by thirty-four shorter issues chapters that can be easily mixed and matched to create a customized course syllabus. In the preface, the author provides a list of suggested issues to cover in a course with specific themes, such as social policy, international issues, or business. For those instructors who want to do it themselves, the author has also included a grid that shows which theory chapters need to be mastered before moving on to each issue chapter. Instructors and students alike will appreciate the solid theoretical foundation as well as the intriguing and timely economic issues explored in the book, such as sports, education, and ticket scalping.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 202mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 730g
• ISBN-13: 9780072345773
• ISBN-10: 0072345772
• Artikelnr.: 21948882

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Issues for Different Course Themes Required Theory Table I. Theory
Chapters 1: Economics: The Study of Opportunity Cost 2: Supply and Demand
3: The Concept of Elasticity and Consumer and Producer Surplus 4: Interest
Rates and Present Value 5: Firm Production, Cost, and Revenue 6: Perfect
Competition, Monopoly, and Economic versus Normal Profit 7: Every
Macroeconomic Word You Ever Heard: Gross Domestic Product, Inflation,
Unemployment, Recession, and Depression 8: Aggregate Supply and Aggregate
Demand II. Issues Chapters Part 1: Macroeconomic Issues 9: Federal Spending
10: Federal Deficits, Surpluses, and the National Debt 11: Fiscal Policy
12: Monetary Policy 13: Overstatement of the Cost of Living by the CPI Part
2: International Issues 14: International Trade 15: International Monetary
Fund 16: NAFTA, GATT, and the WTO Part 3: Externalities and Market Failure
17: Drugs and Prostitution 18: Tobacco and Alcohol 19: Environment Part 4:
Health Issues 20: Health Care 21: Medicaid 22: Medicare 23: Prescription
Drugs Part 5: Governmental Solutions to Societal Problems 24: Crime 25:
Education 26: Poverty and Welfare 27: Social Security 28: Head Start Part
6: Discrimination Issues 29: Race and Affirmative Action 30: Gender 31: The
Economics of Children Part 7: Price Control Issues 32: Farm Policy 33:
Minimum Wage 34: Rent Control 35: Ticket Brokers and Scalping Part 8:
Miscellaneous Markets 36: Personal Income Taxes 37: Taxing the Returns on
Capital 38: Anti-Trust 39: Energy Prices 40: If They Build It, Will They
Come? And Other Sports Questions 41: The Stock Market and Crashes 42:
Unions Glossary