Economics principles, problems, and policies - McConnell, Campbell R.; Brue, Stanley L. 1945-. (New York, 1993)
Table of Contents: Preface. Acknowledgements. Suggested One-Semester and One-Quarter Course. Outlines. -- Part 1. An Introduction to Economics and the Economy: 1. The Nature and Method of Economics -- 2. The Economizing Problem -- 3. Pure Capitalism and the Circular Flow -- 4. Understanding Individual Markets: Demand and Supply -- 5. The Private Sectors and the Market System -- 6. The Public Sector -- Part 2. National Income, Employment, and Fiscal Policy: 7. Measuring Domestic Output, National Income, and the Price Level -- 8. Macroeconomic Instability: Unemployment and Inflation -- 9. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply -- 10. Classical and Keynesian Theories of Employment -- 11. Equilibrium Domestic Output in the Keynesian Model -- 12. Fiscal Policy -- Part 3. Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy: 13. Money and Banking -- 14. How Banks Create Money -- 15. The Federal Reserve Banks and Monetary Policy -- Part 4. Problems and Controversies in Macroeconomics: 16. Alternative Views: Monetarism and Rational Expectations -- 17. The Inflation-Unemployment Relationship -- 18. Budget Deficits and the Public Debt -- 19. Economic Growth -- Part 5. Microeconomics of Product and Resource Markets: 20. Demand and Supply: Elasticities and Applications -- 21. Consumer Behavior and Utility Maximization -- 22. The Costs of Production -- 23. Price and Output Determination: Pure Competition -- 24. Price and Output Determination: Pure Monopoly -- 25. Price and Output Determination: Monopolistic Competition -- 26. Price and Output Determination: Oligopoly -- 27. Production and the Demand for Resources -- 28. The Pricing and Employment of Resources: Wage Determination -- 29. The Pricing and Employment of Resources: Rent, Interest, and Profit -- 30. General Equilibrium: The Market System and Its Operation -- Part 6. Government and Current Economic Problems: 31. Government and Market Failure: Public Goods, the Environment, and Information Problems -- 32. Public Choice Theory and Taxation -- 33. Antitrust and Regulation -- 34. Agriculture: Economics and Policy -- 35. Income Inequality and Poverty -- 36. Labor Market Issues: Unionism, Discrimination, Immigration -- Part 7. International Economics and the World Economy: 37. International Trade: Comparative Advantage and Protectionism -- -- 38. Exchange Rates, The Balance of Payment and Trade Deficits -- 39. Growth and the Less Developed Countries -- 40. The Soviet Economy in Transition -- Glossary -- Index.
Includes index.
Keywords: Economics