Economics

Roger A. Arnold

Cengage Learning, Dec 17, 2008 - Business & Economics - 864 pages

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Contents

• What Economics Is About: 1
• Economic Activities Producing and Trading: 33
• Supply and Demand Theory: 53
• Supply and Demand Applications: 91
• Macroeconomic Measurements Part I Prices and Unemployment: 113
• Macroeconomic Measurements Part II GDP and Real GDP: 133
• Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply: 156
• The SelfRegulating Economy: 184
• Economic Instability A Critique of the SelfRegulating Economy: 203
• Fiscal Policy and the Federal Budget: 229
• Money and Banking: 250
• The Federal Reserve System: 270
• Money and the Economy: 284
• Monetary Policy: 311
• Expectations Theory and the Economy: 333
• Economic Growth: 354
• Elasticity: 375
• Consumer Choice Maximizing Utility and Behavioral Economics: 402
• Production and Costs: 428
• Perfect Competition: 458
• Monopoly: 485
• Monopolistic Competition Oligopoly and Game Theory: 508
• Government and Product Markets Antitrust and Regulation: 534
• Factor Markets With Emphasis on the Labor Market: 557
• Wages Unions and Labor: 582
• The Distribution of Income and Poverty: 601
• Interest Rent and Profit: 623
• Market Failure Externalities Public Goods and Asymmetric Information: 642
• Public Choice Economic Theory Applied to Politics: 668
• International Trade: 689
• International Finance: 708
• Globalization and International Impacts on the Economy: 737
• Stocks Bonds Futures and Options: 765
• SelfTest Appendix: 786
• Glossary: 806
• Index: 816

About the author

Dr. Roger A. Arnold is Professor of Economics at California State University San Marcos, where his fields of specialization include general microeconomic theory and monetary theory. A widely respected authority on economic issues, Dr. Arnold is a regularly featured expert on talk radio discussing the state of the economy. He is also a proven author who has published numerous academic articles, hundreds of newspaper columns, as well as the popular ECONOMICS: NEW WAYS OF THINKING and principles of economics supplemental text, HOW TO THINK LIKE AN ECONOMIST. Dr. Arnold earned a B.S. in Economics from the University of Birmingham in England and received his M.A. and his Ph.D. degrees from Virginia Tech.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Economics; Available Titles Aplia Series
• Author: Roger A. Arnold
• Edition: 9
• Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2008
• ISBN: 0324595425, 9780324595420
• Length: 864 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Economics / General