Economics for Today (Hardcover, 11)

Part I: INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS.1. Introducing the Economic Way of Thinking.A1. Appendix 1: Applying Graphs to Economics.2. Production Possibilities, Opportunity Cost, and Economic Growth.Part II: MICROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS.3. Market Demand and Supply.4. Markets in Action.A4. Appendix 4: Consumer Surplus, Producer Surplus, and Market Efficiency.5. Elasticity.6. Consumer Choice Theory.A6. Appendix 6: Indifference Curve Analysis.7. Production Costs.Part III. MARKET STRUCTURES.8. Perfect Competition.9. Monopoly.10. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly.11. Labor Markets.Part IV: MICROECONOMIC POLICY ISSUES.12. Income Distribution, Poverty, and Discrimination.13. Antitrust and Regulation.14. Environmental Economics.PART V: MACROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS.15. Gross Domestic Product.A15. Appendix 15: A Four-Sector Circular Flow Model.16. Business Cycles and Unemployment.17. Inflation.Part VI: MACROECONOMIC THEORY AND POLICY.18. The Keynesian Model.19. The Keynesian Model in Action.20. Aggregate Demand and Supply.A20. Appendix 20: The Self-Correcting Aggregate Demand and Supply Model.21. Fiscal Policy.22. The Public Sector.23. Federal Deficits, Surpluses, and the National Debt.Part VII: MONEY, BANKING, AND MONETARY POLICY.24. Money and the Federal Reserve System.25. Money Creation.26. Monetary Policy.A26. Appendix 26: Policy Disputes Using the Self-Correcting Aggregate Demand and Supply Model.27. The Phillips Curve and Expectations Theory.Part VIII: THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY.28. International Trade and Finance.29. Economies in Transition.30. Growth and the Less-Developed Countries.Glossary.Index.