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| adam_text | Titel: Fundamentals of economics for business
Autor: Barrows, David
Jahr: 2009
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Preface
Business and Economics..............
Introduction......................
Learning Objectives.................. 2
Microeconomics, Macroeconomics
and International Economics.......... 3
Optimal Resource Allocation versus
Dynamic Economic Growth?.......... 4
Chapter Summary................... 10
Problems........................ 10
Case Study Questions................ 11
Appendix 1.1: Leading Economic Thinkers ... 12
2 Demand and Supply: The Basics......... 21
Introduction...................... 22
Market Price...................... 23
Changes in Market Conditions........... 26
The Concept of Elasticity.............. 29
Working with Demand Elasticity.......... 32
Working with Supply Elasticity........... 34
Other Applications of the Concept
of Elasticity..................... 37
Chapter Summary................... 39
Problems........................ 39
Case Study Questions................ 41
Appendix 2.1: Another Method
for Calculating Elasticity............ 43
The Market Mechanism and the Impact
of Regulation and Taxation............ 45
Introduction...................... 45
Factor Markets.................... 4g
Financial and Asset Markets............ 48
The Impact of a Price Ceiling .......... 49
The Impact of a Price Floor ........... 51
The Impact of Taxation............... 53
Subsidies........................ 59
Chapter Summary................... 50
Problems........................ 61
Appendix 3.1: The Relationship between
Yields and Financial Asset Prices:
An Example................... 63
The Costs of Production.............. 65
Introduction...................... 66
Concepts and Definitions.............. 66
A Cost Example................... 70
Textbook U-shaped Cost Curves
and Other Configurations for Cost Curves . . 72
Chapter Summary................... 74
Problems........................ 77
Case Study Questions................ 78
Appendix 4.1: More on Costs and Production . 79
Two Benchmarks for Business Strategy:
Perfect Competition versus Monopoly...... 89
Introduction...................... 90
The Firm in a Perfectly Competitive
Industry ...................... 90
The Firm as a Monopolist............. 94
Chapter Summary................... 98
Problems........................ 100
Case Study Questions................ 102
Appendix 5.1: Price Discrimination........ 103
Alternative Market Structures, Business
Strategy, and Public Policy............. 109
Introduction...................... 110
Monopolistic Competition.............. 110
Oligopoly........................ 113
An Introduction to Game Theory ........ 113
Competition Policy.................. 119
Externalities, Public Goods,
and Natural Monopolies............. 121
Schumpeter s Defense of Monopoly/Imperfect
Competition..................... 124
Chapter Summary................... 127
Problems........................ 128
Case Study Questions................ 129
Appendix 6.1: Notes on Regulation....... 132
Appendix 6.2: Theory of the Firm........ 135
Case A: The Baranti Group............ 138
The Global Economy I: The Debate
over Free Trade................... 141
Introduction...................... 142
Differing Degrees of Economic
Integration..................... 142
The Case for Free Trade.............. 143
Comparative Advantage and the Gains
from Trade..................... 145
Demand and Supply under Free Trade...... 151
Tariff and Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade..... 153
The Compensation Principle of Welfare
Economics as Applied to Free Trade..... 156
Some Arguments Against Free Trade....... 157
Chapter Summary................... 158
Problems........................ 160
Case Study Questions................ 162
Economic Indicators and the Basic
Data of the Macroeconomy............ 165
Introduction...................... 166
Gross Domestic Product............... 166
Price Indices and Inflation............. 169
The Business Cycle, Inflation,
and Unemployment................ 173
Interest Rates..................... 177
The Supply of Money................ 182
Chapter Summary................... 184
Problems........................ 185
Case Study Questions................ 186
Appendix 8.1: The Yield Curve:
A Numerical Example............. 189
The Simple Keynesian Model
and an Introduction to Fiscal Policy....... 191
Introduction.................... ^92
The Theory of Effective Demand
and the Investment Multiplier.......... 193
Criticisms of Keynesian Economics ....... 195
The Public Sector................... 196
International Aspects................. 197
The Government Budget Deficit
and the National Debt.............. 198
Chapter Summary................... 200
Problems........................ 201
Case Study Questions................ 202
Appendix 9.1: IS/LM and Aggregate Demand . 203
10 Money and Inflation................. 211
Introduction...................... 212
The Equation of Exchange............. 213
Aggregate Demand and Supply.......... 215
Potential Criticisms of the Quantity Theory ... 219
The Velocity of Circulation and the Demand
for Money..................... 220
The Money Multiplier and the Supply
of Money...................... 221
The Non-Neutrality of Money
in the Short Run ................ 222
Chapter Summary................... 228
Problems........................ 229
Appendix 10.1: Money and Banking....... 232
11 Is There a Trade-Off between Inflation
and Economic Growth?............... 241
Introduction...................... 242
The Phillips Curve.................. 242
Adaptive Expectations and Rational
Expectations.................... 246
Modern Monetary Economics: The New
Consensus on Macroeconomic Policy..... 251
Chapter Summary................... 259
Problems........................ 260
Appendix 11.1: Interest Rates and
Aggregate Demand Growth.......... 261
12 The Global Economy II: The Balance
of Payments and Exchange Rates......... 263
Introduction...................... 264
The Balance of Payments and International
Flows of Funds.................. 264
Exchange Rates.................... 269
Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes........ 270
Exchange Rate Determination: Flexible
Exchange Rates.................. 275
Exchange Rate Determination: Fixed
Exchange Rates.................. 278
Classical Adjustment Mechanisms
in the Global Economy.............. 282
Chapter Summary................... 284
Problems........................ 285
Case Study Questions................ 286
Appendix 12.1: The Mundell-Fleming Model. . 287
13 The Global Economy III: Some Topics
in International Finance............... 293
Introduction...................... 294
Covered Interest Parity............... 294
Uncovered Interest Parity, Purchasing
Power Parity, and Real Interest Parity .... 295
Some Problems with Interest Parity
and Purchasing Power Parity Assumptions . . 298
Fixed Exchange Rates and the Domestic
Rate of Interest.................. 300
Chapter Summary................... 301
Problems........................ 302
14 Economic Growth and Competitiveness:
A Macro-Micro Synthesis.............. 305
Introduction...................... 306
Economic Growth................... 306
Growth Models.................... 306
Growth and Business Cycles............ 311
International Competitiveness............ 312
The Porter Model.................. 314
Stages of National Competitive Development . . 317
Fundamentals of International Competitiveness . 319
The Main Social Institutions of Capitalism ... 323
Some Final Remarks................. 327
Chapter Summary................... 328
Problems........................ 329
Case Study Questions................ 329
Case B: The Comeback of Caterpillar...... 331
Introduction...................... 332
The Heavy Construction Equipment Industry . . 332
History of Caterpillar................ 335
The Crisis of the Early 1980s........... 336
Turnaround: George Schaefer s
Caterpillar, 1985-1990.............. 338
The Transformation Continued: Donald Fites
Caterpillar, 1990-1999.............. 343
The Future [as of 2001]: Glen Barton s
Caterpillar 1999-.................. 352
Index.......................... 357
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