Designed specifically for the one-semester introductory economics course for non-majors, Tucker's SURVEY OF ECONOMICS, 8E, International Edition delivers the most comprehensive and pedagogically rich treatment of introduction to economics available. Readable, sensible, and interesting, this text is renowned for its engaging presentation, emphasis on critical thinking, active learning environment, highly motivational pedagogy, unrivaled visual learning support, and numerous in-chapter applications and review opportunities. With its focus onthe most basic tools and topics in economics in the context of real-world issues, the book gives students the opportunity to see how economic issues play out at national and international levels. The eighth edition has been thoroughly updated to show students how economics impacts their own world through topics such as privatization versus nationalization, social security, carbon emissions, social-networking sites, America's housing bubble, and gasoline prices. INDICE: Brief CONTENTS.PART I: INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS.1. Introducing the Economic Way of Thinking.Appendix 1: Applying Graphs to Economics.2. Production Possibilities, Opportunity Cost, and Economic Growth.PART II: THE MICROECONOMY.3. Market Demand and Supply.4. Markets in Action.Appendix 4: Applying Supply and Demand Analysis to Health Care.5. Price Elasticity of Demand.6. Production Costs.7. Perfect Competition.8. Monopoly.9. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly.10. Labor Markets and Income Distribution.PART III: THE MACROECONOMYAND FISCAL POLICY.11. Gross Domestic Product.12. Business Cycles and Unemployment.13. Inflation.14. Aggregate Demand and Supply.Appendix 14: The Self-Correcting Aggregate Demand and Supply Model.15. Fiscal Policy.16. The Public Sector.17. Federal Deficits, Surpluses, and the National Debt.PART IV: MONEY, BANKING, AND MONETARY POLICY.18. Money and the Federal Reserve System.19. Money Creation.20. Monetary Policy.Appendix 20: Policy Disputes Using the Self-Correcting Aggregate Demand and Supply Model.PART V: THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY.21. International Trade and Finance.22. Economies in Transition.23. Growth and the Less-Developed Countries.Appendix A: Answers to Odd-Numbered Study Questions andProblems.Appendix B: Answers to Practice Quizzes.Appendix C: Answers to Road Map Questions.Glossary.Index.
- ISBN: 978-1-111-96949-3
- Editorial: South Western
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- Fecha Publicación: 16/01/2012
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