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- ISBN-10 : 1337613045
- ISBN-13 : 978-1337613040
- Author: Dr. Irvin B. Tucker
The most reader-friendly economics approach available, ECONOMICS FOR TODAY, 10E by national award-winning educator Irvin Tucker presents macro and micro economic concepts using a writing style that is engaging and clear, no matter what your current level of economic understanding. A unique presentation and visual learning system, colorful graphs and Causation Chains further clarify important economic principles. The book concisely presents and reinforces core concepts, while online resources immediately facilitate assessment of understanding. You study the latest information on economic growth, income distribution, federal deficits, environmental issues, and other developments in economics today. The book’s easy-to-follow format demonstrates how to apply principles to your everyday life, while numerous printed and digital study tools help you further master key current economic principles.
Table contents:
- Part 1: Introduction to Economics
- Ch 1: Introducing the Economic Way of Thinking
- Ch 1: Introduction
- Ch 1: In This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- 1-1: The Problem of Scarcity
- 1-2: Scarce Resources and Production
- 1-3: Economics: The Study of Scarcity and Choice
- 1-4: The Methodology of Economics
- 1-5: Hazards of the Economic Way of Thinking
- 1-6: Why Do Economists Disagree?
- 1-7: Careers in Economics
- Ch 1: Key Concepts
- Ch 1: Summary
- Ch 1: Summary of Conclusion Statements
- Ch 1: Study Questions and Problems
- Ch 1: Sample Quiz
- Appendix to Chapter 1: Applying Graphs to Economics
- Ch 2: Production Possibilities, Opportunity Cost, and Economic Growth
- Ch 2: Introduction
- Ch 2: In This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- 2-1: Three Fundamental Economic Questions
- 2-2: Opportunity Cost
- 2-3: Marginal Analysis
- 2-4: The Production Possibilities Curve
- 2-5: The Law of Increasing Opportunity Costs
- 2-6: Sources of Economic Growth
- 2-7: Present Investment and the Future Production Possibilities Curve
- Ch 2: Key Concepts
- Ch 2: Summary
- Ch 2: Summary of Conclusion Statements
- Ch 2: Study Questions and Problems
- Ch 2: Sample Quiz
- Part 1: Road Map
- Part 2: Microeconomics Fundamentals
- Ch 3: Market Demand and Supply
- Ch 3: Introduction
- Ch 3: In This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- 3-1: The Law of Demand
- 3-2: The Distinction Between Changes in Quantity Demanded and Changes in Demand
- 3-3: Nonprice Determinants of Demand
- 3-4: The Law of Supply
- 3-5: Te Distinction Between Changes in Quantity Supplied and Changes in Supply
- 3-6: Nonprice Determinants of Supply
- 3-7: A Market Supply and Demand Analysis
- Ch 3: Key Concepts
- Ch 3: Summary
- Ch 3: Study Questions and Problems
- Ch 3: Sample Quiz
- Appendix to Chapter 3: Consumer Surplus, Producer Surplus, and Market Efficiency
- Ch 4: Markets in Action
- Ch 4: Introduction
- Ch 4: In This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- 4-1: Changes in Market Equilibrium
- 4-2: Can the Laws of Supply and Demand Be Repealed?
- 4-3: Market Failure
- Ch 4: Key Concepts
- Ch 4: Summary
- Ch 4: Summary of Conclusion Statements
- Ch 4: Study Questions and Problems
- Ch 4: Sample Quiz
- Appendix to Chapter 4: Applying Supply and Demand Analysis to Health Care
- Ch 5: Price Elasticity of Demand and Supply
- Ch 5: Introduction
- Ch 5: In This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- 5-1: Price Elasticity of Demand
- 5-2: Price Elasticity of Demand Variations Along a Demand Curve
- 5-3: Determinants of Price Elasticity of Demand
- 5-4: Other Elasticity Measures
- 5-5: Price Elasticity and the Impact of Taxation
- Ch 5: Key Concepts
- Ch 5: Summary
- Ch 5: Summary of Conclusion Statements
- Ch 5: Study Questions and Problems
- Ch 5: Sample Quiz
- Ch 6: Consumer Choice Theory
- Ch 6: Introduction
- Ch 6: In This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- 6-1: From Utility to the Law of Demand
- 6-2: Income and Substitution Effects and the Law of Demand
- Ch 6: Key Concepts
- Ch 6: Summary
- Ch 6: Summary of Conclusion Statements
- Ch 6: Study Questions and Problems
- Ch 6: Sample Quiz
- Appendix to Chapter 6: Indifference Curve Analysis
- Ch 7: Production Costs
- Ch 7: Introduction
- Ch 7: In This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- 7-1: Costs and Profit
- 7-2: Short-Run Production Costs
- 7-3: Short-Run Cost Formulas
- 7-4: Marginal Cost Relationships
- 7-5: Long-Run Production Costs
- Ch 7: Key Concepts
- Ch 7: Summary
- Ch 7: Summary of Conclusion Statements
- Ch 7: Study Questions and Problems
- Ch 7: Sample Quiz
- Part 2: Road Map
- Part 3: Market Structures
- Ch 8: Perfect Competition
- Ch 8: Introduction
- Ch 8: In This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- 8-1: Perfect Competition
- 8-2: Short-Run Profit Maximization for a Perfectly Competitive Firm
- 8-3: Short-Run Loss Minimization for a Perfectly Competitive Firm
- 8-4: Short-Run Supply Curves Under Perfect Competition
- 8-5: Long-Run Supply Curves Under Perfect Competition
- Ch 8: Key Concepts
- Ch 8: Summary
- Ch 8: Summary of Conclusion Statements
- Ch 8: Study Questions and Problems
- Ch 8: Sample Quiz
- Ch 9: Monopoly
- Ch 9: Introduction
- Ch 9: In This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- 9-1: The Monopoly Market Structure
- 9-2: Price and Output Decisions for a Monopolist
- 9-3: Price Discrimination
- 9-4: Comparing Monopoly and Perfect Competition
- Ch 9: Key Concepts
- Ch 9: Summary
- Ch 9: Summary of Conclusion Statements
- Ch 9: Study Questions and Problems
- Ch 9: Sample Quiz
- Ch 10: Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
- Ch 10: Introduction
- Ch 10: In This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- 10-1: The Monopolistic Competition Market Structure
- 10-2: Price and Output Decisions for a Monopolistically Competitive Firm
- 10-3: Comparing Monopolistic Competition and Perfect Competition
- 10-4: Oligopoly—Competition Among the Few
- 10-5: Price and Output Decisions for an Oligopolist
- 10-6: Review of the Four Market Structures
- Ch 10: Key Concepts
- Ch 10: Summary
- Ch 10: Summary of Conclusion Statements
- Ch 10: Study Questions and Problems
- Ch 10: Sample Quiz
- Ch 11: Labor Markets
- Ch 11: Introduction
- Ch 11: In This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- 11-1: The Labor Market Under Perfect Competition
- 11-2: Labor Unions: Employee Power
- 11-3: Employer Power
- Ch 11: Key Concepts
- Ch 11: Summary
- Ch 11: Summary of Conclusion Statements
- Ch 11: Study Questions and Problems
- Ch 11: Sample Quiz
- Part 3: Road Map
- Part 4: Microeconomics Policy Issues
- Ch 12: Income Distribution, Poverty, and Discrimination
- Ch 12: Introduction
- Ch 12: In This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- 12-1: The Distribution of Income
- 12-2: Poverty
- 12-3: Antipoverty Programs
- 12-4: Reform Proposals
- 12-5: Discrimination
- Ch 12: Key Concepts
- Ch 12: Summary
- Ch 12: Summary of Conclusion Statements
- Ch 12: Study Questions and Problems
- Ch 12: Sample Quiz
- Ch 13: Antitrust and Regulation
- Ch 13: Introduction
- Ch 13: In This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- 13-1: Antitrust
- 13-2: Key Antitrust Cases
- 13-3: Mergers and Global Antitrust Policy
- 13-4: Regulation
- 13-5: Three Cases for Government Regulation
- 13-6: Imperfect Information
- Ch 13: Key Concepts
- Ch 13: Summary
- Ch 13: Summary of Conclusion Statements
- Ch 13: Study Questions and Problems
- Ch 13: Sample Quiz
- Ch 14: Environmental Economics
- Ch 14: Introduction
- Ch 14: In This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- 14-1: Competitive Markets and Environmental Efficiency
- 14-2: Achieving Environmental Efficiency
- Ch 14: Key Concepts
- Ch 14: Summary
- Ch 14: Summary of Conclusion Statements
- Ch 14: Study Questions and Problems
- Ch 14: Sample Quiz
- Part 4: Road Map
- Part 5: Macroeconomics Fundamentals
- Ch 15: Gross Domestic Product
- Ch 15: Introduction
- Ch 15: In This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- 15-1: Gross Domestic Product
- 15-2: Measuring Gdp
- 15-3: The Expenditure Approach
- 15-4: The Income Approach
- 15-5: GDP Shortcomings
- 15-6: Other National Income Accounts
- 15-7: Changing Nominal GDP to Real GDP
- Ch 15: Key Concepts
- Ch 15: Summary
- Ch 15: Summary of Conclusion Statements
- Ch 15: Study Questions and Problems
- Ch 15: Sample Quiz
- Appendix to Chapter 15: A Four-Sector Circular Flow Model
- Ch 16: Business Cycles and Unemployment
- Ch 16: Introduction
- Ch 16: In This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- 16-1: The Business–Cycle Roller Coaster
- 16-2: Unemployment
- 16-3: Types of Unemployment
- 16-4: The Goal of Full Employment
- 16-5: Nonmonetary and Demographic Consequences of Unemployment
- Ch 16: Key Concepts
- Ch 16: Summary
- Ch 16: Summary of Conclusion Statements
- Ch 16: Study Questions and Problems
- Ch 16: Sample Quiz
- Ch 17: Inflation
- Ch 17: Introduction
- Ch 17: in This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- 17-1: Meaning and Measurement of Inflation
- 17-2: Consequences of Inflation
- 17-3: Demand-Pull and Cost-push Inflation
- Ch 17: Key Concepts
- Ch 17: Summary
- Ch 17: Summary of Conclusion Statements
- Ch 17: Study Questions and Problems
- Ch 17: Sample Quiz
- Part 5: Road Map
- Part 6: Macroeconomics Theory and Policy
- Ch 18: The Keynesian Model
- Ch 18: Introduction
- Ch 18: In This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- 18-1: Introducing Classical Theory and the Keynesian Revolution
- 18-2: Reasons the Consumption Function Shifts
- 18-3: Investment Expenditures
- 18-4: Why Investment Demand Is Unstable
- Ch 18: Key Concepts
- Ch 18: Summary
- Ch 18: Summary of Conclusion Statements
- Ch 18: Study Questions and Problems
- Ch 18: Sample Quiz
- Ch 19: The Keynesian Model in Action
- Ch 19: Introduction
- Ch 19: In This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- 19-1: Adding Government and Global Trade to the Keynesian Model
- 19-2: The Aggregate Expenditures Model
- 19-3: The Spending Multiplier Effect
- 19-4: Recessionary and Inflationary Gaps
- Ch 19: Key Concepts
- Ch 19: Summary
- Ch 19: Summary of Conclusion Statements
- Ch 19: Study Questions and Problems
- Ch 19: Sample Quiz
- Ch 20: Aggregate Demand and Supply
- Ch 20: Introduction
- Ch 20: In This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- 20-1: The Aggregate Demand Curve
- 20-2: Reasons for the Aggregate Demand Curve’s Shape
- 20-3: Nonprice-Level Determinants of Aggregate Demand
- 20-4: The Aggregate Supply Curve
- 20-5: Changes in AD–AS Macroeconomic Equilibrium
- 20-6: Nonprice-Level Determinants of Aggregate Supply
- 20-7: Cost-Push and Demand-Pull Inflation Revisited
- Ch 20: Key Concepts
- Ch 20: Summary
- Ch 20: Summary of Conclusion Statements
- Ch 20: Study Questions and Problems
- Ch 20: Sample Quiz
- Appendix to Chapter 20: The Self-Correcting Aggregate Demand and Supply Model
- Ch 21: Fiscal Policy
- Ch 22: The Public Sector
- Ch 23: Federal Deficits, Surpluses, and the National Debt
- Part 6: Road Map
- Part 7: Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy
- Ch 24: Money and the Federal Reserve System
- Ch 25: Money Creation
- Ch 26: Monetary Policy
- Ch 27: The Phillips Curve and Expectations Theory
- Part 7: Road Map
- Part 8: The International Economy
- Ch 28: International Trade and Finance
- Ch 28: Introduction
- Ch 28: In This Chapter, You Will Learn to Solve These Economics Puzzles:
- Ch 29: Economies in Transition
- Ch 30: Growth and the Less-Developed Countries
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