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Author:   Roger A. Arnold (California State University, San Marcos)
Publisher:   Cengage Learning, Inc
Imprint:   South-Western College Publishing
Edition:   11th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 21.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   1.090kg
ISBN:  

9781133582946

ISBN 10:   113358294
Pages:   616
Publication Date:   01 February 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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AN INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS Part I: ECONOMICS: THE SCIENCE OF SCARCITY 1. What Economics Is About. Appendix A Working with Diagrams. Appendix B Should You Major in Economics? 2. Production Possibilities Frontier Framework. 3. Supply and Demand: Theory. 4. Prices: Free, Controlled, and Relative. 5. Supply, Demand, and Price: Applications. MACROECONOMICS Part II: MACROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS 6. Macroeconomic Measurements, Part I: Prices and Unemployment. 7. Macroeconomic Measurements, Part II: GDP and Real GDP. Part III: MACROECONOMIC STABILITY, INSTABILITY, AND FISCAL POLICY 8. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply. 9. Classical Macroeconomics and the Self-Regulating Economy. 10. Keynesian Macroeconomics and Economic Instability: A Critique of the Self-Regulating Economy. 11. Fiscal Policy and the Federal Budget. Part IV: MONEY, THE ECONOMY, AND MONETARY POLICY 12. Money, Banking, and the Financial System. 13. The Federal Reserve System. Appendix C The Market for Reserves (or the Federal Funds Market) 14. Money and the Economy. 15. Monetary Policy. Appendix D Bond Prices and the Interest Rate Part V: EXPECTATIONS AND GROWTH 16. Expectations Theory and the Economy. 17. Economic Growth: Resources, Technology, Ideas, and Institutions. Part VI: THE FINANCIAL CRISIS OF 2007-2009 18. The Financial Crisis of 2007-2009. Part VII: GOVERNMENT AND THE ECONOMY. 19. Debates in Macroeconomics Over the Role and Effects of Government. Part VIII: PUBLIC CHOICE AND SPECIAL-INTEREST-GROUP POLITICS. 20. Public Choice and Special-Interest-Group Politics. Part IX: ECONOMICS THEORY-BUILDING AND EVERYDAY LIFE. 21. Building Theories to Explain Everyday Life: From Observations to Questions to Theories to Predictions. THE GLOBAL ECONOMY. Part X: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND GLOBALIZATION. 22. International Trade. 23. International Finance. 24. Globalization and International Impacts on the Economy. WEB CHAPTERS. 25. The Economic Case For and Against Government: Five Topics Considered. 26. Financial Matters: Stocks, Bonds, Futures and Options. 27. Agriculture: Problems, Policies, and Unintended Effects.

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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.

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