Principles of Economics in a Nutshell

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Garbo, Lorenzo
Otros Autores: Isenberg, Dorene, Reksten, Nicholas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Temas:
Economics.
Économie politique.
economics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Epigraph
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1 More than just the stock market: introduction to economics
  • 1.1 Economics as a social science
  • 1.2 On the scientific character of economics, ideology, and perspectives
  • 1.3 Concept of economic system
  • 1.4 Founders of modern economics
  • 1.5 Alternative economic paradigms: feminist and ecological economics
  • Chapter 2 Not in the Garden of Eden: scarcity and tradeoffs
  • 2.1 Scarcity and inevitable trade-off among activities
  • 2.2 Production Possibility Frontier (PPF) and opportunity cost
  • 2.3 A special case of PPF: the budget constraint
  • Chapter 3 Led by an invisible hand: the market
  • 3.1 Markets: a general introduction
  • 3.2 Market demand
  • 3.3 Market supply
  • 3.4 Price adjustment mechanism (market mechanism)
  • 3.5 Government interventions: price floors and price ceilings
  • 3.6 Market failures: public goods and externalities
  • 3.7 Price elasticity of demand: sensitivity of the quantity demanded of a good to its own price
  • 3.8 Income elasticity of demand
  • Chapter 4 Inside the magic box: productivity, costs, and profit maximization
  • 4.1 Introduction to the Neoclassical firm: production function
  • 4.2 Short-run vs. long-run in production
  • 4.3 Short-run profit maximization: concepts of economic and normal profits
  • 4.4 A survey of market structures
  • 4.5 Total revenues for the perfectly competitive firm
  • 4.6 Building block of short-run cost analysis: marginal productivity of labor
  • 4.7 Short-run cost functions
  • 4.8 Profit maximization in perfect competition (short-run)
  • 4.9 Profit maximization in monopoly
  • Chapter 5 Understanding the wealth of nations: national income accounting
  • 5.1 Circular flows and fundamental macroeconomic identities
  • 5.2 Macroeconomic goals and national income accounting
  • 5.3 Business cycles and trend
  • 5.4 What else should count? Measuring time use
  • Chapter 6 In the short-run we are alive: macroeconomic theory and policy: the goods market
  • 6.1 Introduction to the Classical
  • or supply-side -theoretical framework
  • 6.2 Classical framework
  • The Loanable Funds Model: determination of the interest rate in the real side of the economy
  • 6.3 Macroeconomic policy in the Classical framework: goods market
  • 6.4 Introduction to the Keynesian theoretical framework
  • 6.5 The Keynesian Cross: determination of equilibrium income (or output)
  • 6.6 Expenditure multipliers
  • 6.7 Macroeconomic policy in the Keynesian framework: goods market
  • Chapter 7 Money changes everything: macroeconomic theory and policy: the money market
  • 7.1 What is money?
  • 7.2 Money creation
  • 7.3 Classical theory: the quantity identity (and theory) of money
  • 7.4 The Central Bank and the interest rate: the Keynesian monetary system

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