Howard J Sherman, E. K. Hunt, Reynold F. Nesiba

Economics

An Introduction to Traditional and Progressive Views: An Introduction to Traditional and Progressive Views

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This classic text offers a broader intellectual foundation than traditional principles textbooks. It introduces students to both traditional economic views and their progressive critique. Revised, expanded, and updated for this new edition, the text puts the study of microeconomics, macroeconomics, and globalization in their historical context. While covering the same topics as a traditional text, it also offers a richer discussion of economic history and the history of economic thought, including the ideas of Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, and John Maynard Keynes. This allows students to see economics as a way of understanding the world - as a lens for social analysis - rather than, as immutable truth or ideal to which the world should be molded.This completely revised edition incorporates new chapters on microeconomics and macroeconomics, as well as more graphs to enhance the theoretical presentations. Unlike the previous editions, it includes many pedagogical tools to encourage student participation and learning. Each of the 56 chapters opens with Learning Objectives, and key terms appear in boldface within the text and are listed at the end of each chapter. Other end-of-chapter material includes Summary of Major Points, Analytical Questions, and References. An online Instructor's Manual is available to professors who adopt the text.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• 7. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 762
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1406g
• ISBN-13: 9780765616685
• ISBN-10: 0765616688
• Artikelnr.: 23527433

Autorenporträt

Sherman, Howard J; Hunt, E. K.; Nesiba, Reynold F.; O'Hara, Phillip; Wiens-Tuers, Barbara A.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Robert Pollin
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I. ECONOMICS OF HISTORY AND HISTORY OF ECONOMICS
Section 1. The Long Road to Capitalism
1. Prehistoric Communal Institutions in the Middle East
2. Communal Equality to Slavery in the Middle East
3. Slavery to Feudalism in Western Europe
4. Feudalism and Paternalism in England
5. Feudalism to Capitalism in England
6. Mercantilism in England
7. Pre-Capitalism to Industrial Capitalism in the United States
1776-1865
Section 2. Capitalism
Its Defenders
and Its Critics
8. Classical Liberalism: Defense of Industrial Capitalism
9. Socialist Protest Against Industrial Capitalism
10. Marx: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism
11. Rise of Corporate Capitalism in the United States
1865-1900
12. Neoclassical Economics: Defense of Corporate Capitalism
13. Veblen: Critique of Corporate Capitalism
14. Growth and Depression in the United States
1900-1940
15. Keynesian Economics and the Great Depression
16. The United States and Global Capitalism
1940-2006
PART II. MICROECONOMICS: PRICES
PROFITS
AND POVERTY
Section 1. Introduction
17. Robinson Crusoe: Two Perspectives on Microeconomics
Section 2. Elements of Progressive Microeconomics
18. The Two Americas: Inequality
Class
and Conflict
19. Inequality
Exploitation
and Economic Institutions
20. Prices
Profits
and Exploitation
21. Market Power and Global Corporations
Section 3. Applications of Progressive Microeconomics
22. Economics of Racial and Gender Discrimination
23. Environmental Devastation
24. Government and Inequality
25. Economic Democracy
Section 4. Elements of Neoclassical Economics
26. Scarcity and Choice: Neoclassical View
27. Simple Analytics of Supply and Demand
28. Consumption Theory: Demand
29. Production Theory: Supply
30. Costs of Production
31. Work and Wages: Neoclassical View of Income Distribution
Section 5. Neoclassical Approach to Market Structure and Market Failure
32. Prices and Profits in Perfect Competition
33. Monopoly Power
Prices
and Profits
34. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
35. Market Failures: Public Goods
Market Power
and Externalities
PART III. MACROECONOMICS: GROWTH AND STABILITY
Section 1. Aggregate Supply and Demand
36. History of Business Cycles and Human Misery
37. National Income Accounting: How to Map the Circulation of Money and Goods
38. Money and Profit: Say's Law and Institutionalist Criticism
39. Neoclassical View of Aggregate Supply and Demand
40. Keynesian View of Aggregate Supply and Demand
Section 2. Understanding Instability
41. How to Measure Instability
42. Consumer Spending and Labor Income
43. Investment Spending and Profit
44. The Multiplier
45. Business Cycles and Unemployment
46. Growth and Waste
Section 3. Government Fiscal Policy
47. Fiscal Policy
48. Government Spending and Taxes
Section 4. Money and Monetary Policy
49. Money
Banking
and Credit
50. Inflation
51. Monetary Policy
PART IV. INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL POLICY
52. Exports and Imports
53. International Trade
Investment
and Finance: How Instability Spreads Around the World
54. Debate on Globalization
55. Debate on Free Trade
56. Development
Glossary
References
Index