00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773861802483 Buklod 20250203150231.0 j|||||||||||||| | ta 240320s2009 ph a ra |001 0|eng d 9789715849203 (iLib)UPBAG-00008168796 BC-59582 Php398.00 BC-59583 Php398.00 BC-59584 Php395.00 GRC-466 Gift-Dr. David B. Baradas DLC BAG rda eng HB 171.5 E26 Economics Amelia L. Bello [and five others]. Quezon City C & E Publishing, Inc. 2009. ©2009. xvii, 282 pages illustrations 26 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Main entry and author number entered under title. Includes bibliographical references (pages [270]-273) and index. PART 1: BASIC ECONOMIC CONCEPTS Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION Why study economics? -- Macroeconomics vs. microeconomics. Chapter 2: THE ECONOMIC PROBLEM: RESOURCE ALLOCATION The four basic questions -- Systems of allocation -- Efficiency, trade-off, and the PPF. PART II: MACROECONOMICS Chapter 3: DEMAND AND SUPPLY: BASIC ELEMENTS The concept of demand -- Change in quantity demanded -- Market demand -- Shifts in the demand curve -- The concept of supply -- Changes in quantity supplied -- Market supply -- Shifts in the supply curve. Chapter 4: MARKET AND EQUILIBRIUM, DEMAND AND SUPPLY APPLICATIONS Equilibrium price and quantity -- Price ceilings and price floors -- Elasticity -- Own price elasticity of demand -- Elasticity values -- Elasticity and the total revenue test -- Determinants of own price elasticity of demand -- Price elasticity of supply -- Tax incidence. Chapter 5: DEMAND AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOR Income and substitution effects -- Utility concepts and measurement -- Total utility and marginal utility -- Consumer behavior -- The equi-marginal rule. Chapter 6: PRODUCTION, COST, AND THE BUSINESS ORGANIZATION The production function -- Short run production (Production with one variable input) -- Costs of production -- Short run analysis -- Explicit versus implicit costs -- Long run analysis -- Forms of business organizations. Chapter 7: PERFECT COMPETITION Characteristics of a perfectly competitive market -- Demand as seen by a perfectly competitive firm -- Revenues of the firm in a perfectly competitive market -- Short run profit maximization -- The importance of fixed and variable costs -- The firm's short run supply curve -- Profit maximization in the long run. Chapter 8: IMPERFECT COMPETITION Imperfect competition -- Sources of market imperfection -- Types of imperfect markets -- The nature of monopolies -- The inefficiency of the monopoly -- Regulation of a monopoly. Chapter 9: WELFARE ANALYSIS Consumer and producer surplus -- Welfare effects of taxation. PART III: NACROECONOMICS Chapter 10: MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS The flow of goods and services -- Indicators of a country's aggregate output -- Measuring GDP -- Using GDP or GNP to gauge a nation's economic health -- Limitations of GNP -- Inflation -- Unemployment. Chapter 11: SIMPLE INCOME DETERMINATION Aggregate expenditure and national income -- Savings, investment, and income -- Investment and income -- Savings, income, and the paradox of thrift -- Simple income determination: Algebraic treatment. Chapter 12: GOVERNMENT AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY The role of government in modern economies -- The budget of the Philippine national government -- Government and income determination -- Fiscal policy -- The multiplier -- Inflationary and deflationary gaps -- Algebraic treatment. Chapter 13: OPEN ECONOMY MACROECONOMICS Balance of payments -- Exchange rate -- Income determination in an open economy. Chapter 14: MONEY, CENTRAL BANKING, AND MONETARY POLICY What is money -- Evolution of the modern payment systems in the Philippines -- The role of monetary institutions in the economy -- Simple money creation -- Monetary policy -- International monetary institutions and the Philippine monetary system. PART IV: SPECIAL TOPICS Chapter 15: INTERNATIONAL TRADE Why do countries trade? -- The basis for trade -- Trading with many commodities among many countries -- Free trade vs. protectionism. Chapter 16: INTRODUCTION TO TAXATION The role of taxes in the economy -- Types of taxation -- Revenue and tax effort trends -- Problems in tax collection. Chapter 17: AGRARIAN REFORM The concept of agrarian reform -- Brief history of the Philippine agrarian reform experience -- Salient features under the CARP -- Impact of the CARP. Chapter 18: THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT Historical perspective of development: dualistic economies -- Classical theories of development -- Neoclassical models -- Developmentalist theories -- Sustainable development. Chapter 19: DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS The meaning of growth and development -- Measuring economic growth and development -- Human development index -- The Kuznets curve -- Poverty -- Poverty situation -- Income distribution. Chapter 20: THE ECONOMY AND THE ENVIRONMENT The link between the environment and the economy -- Environmental issues of our time -- The economic approach to solving environmental problems -- On-the-ground initiatives by the global and domestic communities to counter environmental damages. Economics. Economics Study and teaching Philippines. Philippines Economic conditions. Bello, Amelia L. author. Camacho, Jose DV, Jr. author. Bello, Rolando T. author. Catelo, Ma. Angeles O. author. Cuevas, Agham C. author. Rodriguez, U-Primo E. author. 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