Overview

Get students to think like an Economist using the latest policy and data while incorporating Global Issues. From our global food shortage to global warming, economic issues permeate our everyday lives. Parkin brings critical issues to the forefront. Each chapter begins with one of today’s key issues, and additional issues appear throughout the chapter to show the real-world applications of the theory being discussed. When the chapter concludes, students “read between the lines” to think critically about a news article relating to the issue, demonstrating how thinking like an economist helps make informed decisions. Parkin is so committed to currency that he uploads news articles almost daily to MyEconLab®, the online assessment and tutorial system that accompanies the text. Assessment questions based on the “Economics in the News” articles will be uploaded periodically so that instructors can assign recent articles within MyEconLab.

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Author:   Michael Parkin
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   10th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 27.60cm
Weight:   1.820kg
ISBN:  

9780131394650

ISBN 10:   0131394657
Pages:   864
Publication Date:   31 May 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   9780132994842
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Parkin, Economics, 10/e Brief Table of Contents   1.    What is Economics 2.    The Economic Problem 3.    Demand and Supply 4.    Elasticity 5.    Efficiency and Equity 6.    Government Actions in Markets 7.    Global Markets in Action 8.    Utility and Demand 9.    Possibilities, Preferences, and Choices 10.  Organizing Production 11.  Output and Costs 12.  Perfect Competition 13.  Monopoly 14.  Monopolistic Competition 15.  Oligopoly 16.  Public Choices and Public Goods 17.  Economics of the Environment 18.  Markets for Factors of Production 19.  Economic Inequality 20.  Uncertainty and Information 21.  Measuring GDP and Economic Growth 22.  Monitoring Jobs and Inflation 23.  Economic Growth 24.  Finance, Saving, and Investment 25.  Money, the Price Level, and Inflation 26.  The Exchange Rate and the Balance of Payments 27.  Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand 28.  Expenditure Multipliers: The Keynesian Model 29.  U.S. Inflation, Unemployment, and Business Cycle 30.  Fiscal Policy 31.  Monetary Policy

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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. Michael Parkin also spearheaded the movement toward European monetary union. Professor Parkin is an experienced and dedicated teacher of introductory economics.

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