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"For the one-semester Principles of Microeconomics courses at 4-year & 2-year colleges and universities.   Still Keeping it Real and More Accessible Than Ever! Hubbard & O'Brien keeps it real in the third edition with updated examples, data, and end-of-chapter problems, providing the most up-to-date discussion on the recession/financial crisis and the monetary and fiscal policy response.   Hubbard & O'Brien is the only book that motivates students to learn economics through real business examples. The #1 question students of economics ask themselves is:  ""Why am I here, and will I ever use this?""  Hubbard/O'Brien answer this question by demonstrating that real businesses use economics to make real decisions daily.  This is motivating to all students, whether they are business majors or not.  All students can relate to businesses they encounter in their everyday lives.  Whether they open an art studio, do social work, trade on Wall Street, work for the government, or bartend at the local pub, students will benefit from understanding the economic forces behind their work.     MyEconLab New Design is now available for this title!  MyEconLab New Design offers:  One Place for All of Your Courses. Improved registration experience and a single point of access for instructors and students who are teaching and learning multiple MyLab/Mastering courses. A Simplified User Interface.  The new user interface offers quick and easy access to Assignments, Study Plan, eText & Results, as well as additional option for course customization. New Communication Tools. The following new communication tools can be used to foster collaboration, class participation, and group work. Email: Instructors can send emails to their entire class, to individual students or to instructors who has access to their course. Discussion Board: The discussion board provides students with a space to respond and react to the discussions you create. These posts can also be separated out into specific topics where students can share their opinions/answers and respond to their fellow classmates’ posts. Chat/ ClassLive: ClassLive is an interactive chat tool that allows instructors and students to communicate in real time. ClassLive can be used with a group of students or one-on-one to share images or PowerPoint presentations, draw or write objects on a whiteboard, or send and received graphed or plotted equations. ClassLive also has additional classroom management tools, including polling and hand-raising. Enhanced eText. Available within the online course materials and offline via an iPad app, the enhanced eText allows instructors and students to highlight, bookmark, take notes, and share with one another."

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Author:   R. Glenn Hubbard ,  Anthony Patrick O'Brien
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   3rd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 27.60cm
Weight:   1.000kg
ISBN:  

9780136021971

ISBN 10:   0136021972
Pages:   720
Publication Date:   31 May 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   9780132911986
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction     Chapter 1. Economics:  Foundations and Models   Chapter 2. Tradeoffs, Comparative Advantage, and the Market System    Chapter 3. Where Prices Come From: The Interaction of Demand and Supply   Chapter 4. Economic Efficiency, Government Price Setting, and Taxes   Part 2:  Markets in Action   Chapter 5. Externalities, Environmental Policy, and Public Goods   Chapter 6. Elasticity:  The Responsiveness of Demand and Supply   Part 3:  Firms in the Domestic and International Economies   Chapter 7. Firms, the Stock Market, & Corporate Governance, and the Stock Market   Chapter 8. Comparative Advantage and the Gains from International Trade   Part 4:  Microeconomic Foundations: Consumers and Firms   Chapter 9. Consumer Choice and Behavioral Economics   Chapter 10. Production, Technology, and Costs   Part 5:  Market Structure and Firm Strategy   Chapter 11. Firms in Perfectly Competitive Markets   Chapter 12. Monopolistic Competition:  The Competitive Model in a More Realistic Setting   Chapter 13. Oligopoly:  Firms in Less Competitive Markets   Chapter 14. Monopoly and Antitrust Policy   Chapter 15. Pricing Strategy   Part 6:  Markets for Factors of Production   Chapter 16. The Markets for Labor and Other Factors of Production    Part 7:  Information, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income   Chapter 17. The Economics of Information   Chapter 18. Public Choice, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income

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Glenn Hubbard policymaker, professor, and researcher. R.Glenn Hubbard is the Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University and Professor of Economics in Columbia’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a director of Automatic Data Processing, Black Rock Closed-End Funds, Dex Media, Duke Realty, KKR Financial Corporation, and Ripplewood Holdings. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1983. From 2001—2003, he served as Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and from 1991—1993, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department. Glenn Hubbard’s fields of specialization are public economics, financial markets and institutions, corporate finance, macroeconomics, industrial organization, and public policy. He is the author of more than 90 articles in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, RAND Journal of Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and numerous private foundations.   Tony O’Brien award-winning professor and researcher. Anthony Patrick O’Brien is a professor of economics at Lehigh University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987. He has taught principles of economics for more than 15 years, in both large sections and small honors classes. He received the Lehigh University Award for Distinguished Teaching. He was formerly the director of the Diamond Center for Economic Education and was named a Dana Foundation Faculty Fellow and Lehigh Class of 1961 Professor of Economics. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. Anthony O’Brien’s research has dealt with such issues as the evolution of the U.S. automobile industry, the sources of U.S. economic competitiveness, the development of U.S. trade policy, the causes of the Great Depression, and the causes of black—white income differences. His research has been published in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Industrial Relations, and the Journal of Economic History. His research has been supported by grants from government agencies and private foundations. In addition to teaching and writing, Anthony O’Brien also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Socio-economics.

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