Economic literacy: basic economics with an attitude
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| Sprache: | English |
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Lanham, Md. [u.a.]
Rowman & Littlefield
2011
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| Ausgabe: | 3. ed. |
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| Beschreibung: | XVII, 271 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9781442204225 |
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| adam_text | Contents
I
1
List of Figures
ix
List of Tables
xi
Preface
xiii
Acknowledgments
xvi
Introduction
1
The Organization of the Book
8
MICROECONOMICS AND THE
THEORY OF MARKETS
Demand and Supply
13
Demand
13
Income and Wealth
15
Prices of Other Goods
15
Tastes
16
Expectations
16
Supply
17
Prices of Inputs
18
Technology
18
Expectations
18
nr
CONTENTS
Market
Equilibrium
23
Casei
26
Case
2
26
СаѕеЗ
28
Case
4
28
Elasticity
35
Sales Taxes
44
Case
5
46
Case
6
47
2
The Theory of the Firm, Market Structures,
Factor Markets, and the Distribution of Income
49
Perfect Competition
54
Market Failure
58
Monopoly
61
Price Discrimination
63
Monopolistic Competition
64
Oligopoly
67
The End of Oligopoly?
70
Deregulation
72
The Theory of Factor Pricing
76
The Distribution of Income
83
II
MACROECONOMICS
3
The Economy as a Whole: Definitions
and Analyses
99
Why Macroeconomics?
100
How Gross Is the Gross Domestic Product?
103
CONTENTS
Effective Demand
112
Households and Consumption
113
The Business Sector and Investment
117
The Public Sector
123
Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy, Recession,
and Inflation
135
Fiscal Policy: Taxing and Spending
135
Money Is as Money Does
141
Financial Markets, the Federal Reserve System,
and Monetary Policy
144
Monetary Policy
145
Business Cycles, Inflation, and Unemployment
151
Up, Up, Up...
152
Down, Down, Down
...
158
The Tools of Stabilization Policy
162
A New Dynamic?
164
Financial Crisis
168
The Great Recession
175
III
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND
NATIONAL ECONOMIES
5
International Economics and Comparative Advantage
181
The Idea of Comparative Advantage
182
Exchange Rates and Adjustment Mechanisms
184
Gold Standard
189
Flexible Exchange Rates
190
International Investment and the Balance of Payments
193
Government Policy and the International Economy:
Tariffs, Quotas, and Exchange Rates
197
Free Trade Determining Public Policy
201
CONTENTS
The International Economy: The Rise
and Fall of
Bretton
Woods
203
The Dollar Exchange Standard,
1944-1971 205
Transnational Corporations
211
The Transformation of the International Economy
212
The End of the
Bretton
Woods Payments System
213
The Beginning of a New International Economy
215
The New International Economy
219
An Anomaly and a Worry
227
Some Final Observations
231
Appendix: Websites of Related Interest
237
Notes
241
Index
247
About the Author
271
Figures
1.1
Two Demand
Curves
14
1.2
Supply Curve
17
1.3
Supply Curve Shifts
19
1.4
Average Cost Curves
21
1.5
Equilibrium of Demand and Supply
24
1.6
From Disequilibrium to a New Equilibrium
25
1.7
Changed Demand for Chicken
27
1.8
Changed Supply of Petroleum
27
1.9
Changed Supply of Electronic Goodies
28
1.10
Effect of a Minimum Wage
31
1.11
Rent Control
33
1.12
Two Demand Curves for Garth Brooks s CDs
37
1.13
Agricultural Price Support
42
1.14
An Increase in Cigarette Taxes
45
2.1
Cowboy Boots
55
2.2
Innovation in Cowboy Boots
56
2.3
A Typical Firm in a Monopolistically
Competitive Market
66
2.4 Lorenz
Curve for the United States,
1998 86
2.5
Two
Lorenz
Curves, One
Gini
Coefficient
88
3.1
Demand Curve for New Plant and Equipment
119
4.1
The Market for Loanable Funds and Fed Policy
147
4.2
The Phillips Curve
165
Tables
1.1
Examples of Economists Consensus in the
1990s 6
1.2
Workforce by Major Industry Groups
7
1.1
A Hypothetical Price Support for Wheat
44
2.1
Number and Sales of Firms by Size and Type,
2005 50
2.2
Regional Distribution of Income in the United States
84
2.3
Distribution of Income among Families,
1970,1990,2000,
and
2006 86
2.4
Median Incomes of Families in Constant
(2006)
Dollars
by Race and Hispanic Origin
90
2.5
Average Hourly Earnings, Labor Productivity,
Percentages of Personal Income Sources, and Gross
Domestic Product
( 1982
Dollars)
93
3.1
The Gross Domestic Product
104
3.2
GDP in Current and Constant Dollars and
Index Numbers
110
3.3
Example of Present Discounted Value Calculation
122
3.4
Federal, State, and Local Government Taxes and Other
Receipts
126
3.5
Major Components of Debt Outstanding in the
United States at Year End,
1970-2008 131
4.1
Calculation of the
2005
Consumer Price Index
156
TABLES
4.2
Percentage
Changes
of the Consumer Price Index in
Fi ve-
Year Increments
158
4.3
Civilian Unemployment Rates in November
2009 161
4.4
Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), February
2010 174
5.1
Summary of the Illustrative Arithmetic
(Comparative Advantage)
187
5.2
United States Current Account,
2008 195
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