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Principles of economics / Joshua Gans, Stephen King, Robin Stonecash, Martin Byford, Jan Libich, N. Gregory Mankiw.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: South Melbourne, Victoria : Cengage Australia, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 7th Asia-Pacific editionDescription: xxxii, 949 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780170382656
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330 GAN 23
Contents:
1. Ten lessons from economics -- 2. Thinking like an economist -- 3. Interdependence and the gains from trade -- 4. The market forces of supply and demand -- 5. Elasticity and its application -- 6. Supply, demand and government policies -- 7. Consumers, producers and the efficiency of markets -- 8. Application: The costs of taxation -- 9. Application: International trade -- 10. Externalities -- 11. Public goods and common resources -- 12. The design of the tax system -- 13. The costs of production -- 14. Firms in competitive markets -- 15. Monopoly -- 16. Monopolistic competition -- 17. Oligopoly and business strategy -- 18. Competition policy -- 19. The markets for the factors of production -- 20. Earnings, unions and discrimination -- 21. Income inequality and poverty -- 22. The theory of consumer choice -- 23. Frontiers of microeconomics -- 24. Measuring a nation's income -- 25. Measuring the cost of living -- 26. Production and growth -- 27. Saving, investment and the financial system -- 28. The natural rate of unemployment -- 29. The monetary system -- 30. Inflation: Its causes and costs -- 31. Open-economy macroeconomics: Basic concepts -- 32. A macroeconomic theory of the open economy -- 33. Aggregate demand and aggregate supply -- 34. The influence of monetary and fiscal policy on aggregate demand -- 35. The short-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment -- 36. Global Financial Crisis 2008 and beyond -- 37. Five debates over macroeconomic policy.
Summary: "Principles of Economics 7th edition combines microeconomics and macroeconomics into one volume for students who take a full year's course. The latest edition of this text continues to focus on important concepts and analyses necessary for students in an introductory economics course. In keeping with the authors' philosophy of showing students the power of economic tools and the importance of economic ideas, this edition pays careful attention to regional and global policies and economic issues ' such as climate change and resource taxation, the impacts of the ongoing global financial crisis, inflation, unemployment, interest rates, monetary and fiscal policy. " -- Provided by publisher.
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Includes index.

"Principles of Economics 7th edition combines microeconomics and macroeconomics into one volume for students who take a full year's course. The latest edition of this text continues to focus on important concepts and analyses necessary for students in an introductory economics course. In keeping with the authors' philosophy of showing students the power of economic tools and the importance of economic ideas, this edition pays careful attention to regional and global policies and economic issues ' such as climate change and resource taxation, the impacts of the ongoing global financial crisis, inflation, unemployment, interest rates, monetary and fiscal policy. " -- Provided by publisher.

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