Geoffrey Schneider

Economic Principles and Problems (eBook, ePUB)

A Pluralist Introduction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Economic Principles and Problems: A Pluralistic Introduction offers a comprehensive introduction to the major perspectives in modern economics, including mainstream and heterodox approaches. It leaves readers better able to understand and analyze the complex behaviors of consumers, firms, and government officials.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040300886
• Artikelnr.: 72642351

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Schneider is Presidential Professor of Economics at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. He is an award-winning teacher, author or co-author of seven books and numerous scholarly articles, and executive director of the International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: Economics: A Pluralist Definition
1. What is economics?
2. Scarcity, choice and opportunity cost
PART II: The evolution of economic ideas and systems
3. The evolution of pre-capitalist economic systems
4. Adam Smith and the rise of capitalism
5. Karl Marx and the dark ages of capitalism
6. Thorstein Veblen and monopoly capitalism
7. Keynes and mixed market capitalism
8. Modern economic systems
PART III: Markets, Supply and Demand
9. Markets and how they work
10. Applications of supply and demand
11. Consumers and supplier behavior
PART IV: Market structures and corporations
12. Different types of market structures
13. Short-run and long-run costs of production
14. Perfect competition and competitive markets
15. Monopoly and monopoly power
16. Monopolistic competition
17. Oligopoly and strategic behavior
18. Corporations and their role in society
Part V: Government intervention in microeconomic markets
19. Market failure and government failure
20. Economics of the environment and climate change
21. Public goods and services
Part VI: Labor markets and inequality
22. Working for a living: the labor market
23. Inequality, a key modern issue
Part VII Macroeconomic issues and problems
24. Modern macroeconomics
25. Macroeconomic wellbeing
26. Unemployment and price instability
Part VIII Macroeconomic models
27. Aggregate demand and aggregate supply
28. The Keynesian aggregate expenditure-income model
Part IX: Stabilization policy
29. Fiscal policy, debt and deficits
30. Money, banking and the financial sector
31. Monetary policy
32. Crises, financial and otherwise
Part X. Growth and global interconnectedness
33. The sources of economic growth
34. International trade and integration
35. International finance and open economy macroeconomics