Michael Parkin

Microeconomics, Global Edition (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Microeconomics gets you to think like an economist by incorporating the latest policy, data and discussions on important global issues.

The 14th Edition emphasizes real-world applications, the development of critical-thinking skills, diagrams renowned for their pedagogy and clarity, and path-breaking technology. Hallmark features in the chapter openings and endings encourage you to think critically about a news article relating to the issue, demonstrating how thinking like an economist can bring a clearer perspective to, and deeper understanding of, today's events.

This print textbook is available for students to rent for their classes. The Pearson print rental program provides students with affordable access to learning materials, so they come to class ready to succeed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pearson ITP
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781292434728
• Artikelnr.: 63554041

Autorenporträt

About our author

Michael Parkin is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Professor Parkin has held faculty appointments at Brown University, the University of Manchester, the University of Essex, and Bond University. He is a past president of the Canadian Economics Association and has served on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and the Journal of Monetary Economics and as managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics.

Professor Parkin's research on macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international economics has resulted in over 160 publications in journals and edited volumes, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He became most visible to the public with his work on inflation that discredited the use of wage and price controls. Professor Parkin also spearheaded the movement toward European monetary union. Professor Parkin is an experienced and dedicated teacher of introductory economics.

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1: INTRODUCTION
1. What is Economics?
2. The Economic Problem
PART 2: HOW MARKETS WORK
1. Demand and Supply
2. Elasticity
3. Efficiency And Equity
4. Government Actions in Markets
5. Global Markets in Action
PART 3: HOUSEHOLDS' CHOICES
6. Utility and Demand
7. Possibilities, Preferences, and Choices
PART 4: FIRMS AND MARKETS
8. Organizing Production
9. Output and Costs
10. Perfect Competition
11. Monopoly
12. Monopolistic Competition
13. Oligopoly
PART 5: MARKET FAILURE AND GOVERNMENT
14. Public Choices, Public Goods, and Healthcare
15. Externalities
PART 6: FACTOR MARKETS, INEQUALITY, AND UNCERTAINTY
16. Markets for Factors of Production
17. Economic Inequality
18. Uncertainty and Information
PART 7: MONITORING MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
19. Monitoring the Value of Production: GDP
20. Monitoring Jobs and Inflation
PART 8: MACROECONOMIC TRENDS
21. Economic Growth
22. Finance, Saving, and Investment
23. Money, the Price Level, and Inflation
24. The Exchange Rate and the Balance of Payments
PART 9: MACROECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS
25. Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand
26. Expenditure Multipliers
27. The Business Cycle, Inflation, and Deflation
PART 10: MACROECONOMIC POLICY
28. Fiscal Policy
29. Monetary Policy