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OverviewEver wonder why you have the number of friends that you do? . . . If a tax on soda would really reduce obesity? . . . What is going on with the financial problems in Greece? . . . or whether a tax rebate is better than a tax bonus? MICROECONOMICS, 11e, International Edition answers these questions and many more. Using intriguing pop culture examples, the eleventh edition is revised to include the most comprehensive coverage of the financial and economic crisis available in a principles of microeconomics text. Self-tests help determine how well you're grasping the concepts, and CourseMate for Microeconomics offers a graphing tutorial, quizzes, videos and more. It's all carefully designed to help you get the best grade possible! Building on the Video Office Hours lectures developed by the author for the tenth edition, the eleventh edition features two entirely new video types--See It Solved and GraphIt! See It Solved videos walk you through a worked problem, similar to those found at the end of each chapter, providing an ideal study tool for reference as you do homework. GraphIt! videos demonstrate key concepts in graphing in short (averaging three to five minutes) video pieces that can be played and replayed to see how the graphs are built. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Roger A. Arnold (California State University, San Marcos)Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc Imprint: South-Western College Publishing Edition: 11th edition Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.998kg ISBN: 9781133582168ISBN 10: 1133582168 Pages: 560 Publication Date: 01 February 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Mixed media product Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAN 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. MICROECONOMICS Part II: MICROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS 6. Elasticity. 7. Consumer Choice: Maximizing Utility and Behavioral Economics. Appendix C Budget Constraint and Indifference Curve Analysis. 8. Production and Costs. Part III: PRODUCT MARKETS AND POLICIES 9. Perfect Competition. 10. Monopoly. 11. Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly, and Game Theory. 12. Government and Product Markets: Antitrust and Regulation. Part IV: FACTOR MARKETS AND RELATED ISSUES 13. Factor Markets: With Emphasis on the Labor Market. 14. Wages, Union, and Labor. 15. The Distribution of Income and Poverty. 16. Interest, Rent, and Profit. Part V: MARKET FAILURE, PUBLIC CHOICE, AND SPECIAL-INTEREST-GROUP POLITICS 17. Market Failure: Externalities, Public Goods, and Asymmetric Information. 18. Public Choice and Special-Interest-Group Politics. Part VI: ECONOMICS THEORY-BUILDING AND EVERYDAY LIFE 19. Building Theories to Explain Everyday Life: From Observations to Questions to Theories to Predictions. THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Part VII: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND GLOBALIZATION 20. International Trade. 21. International Finance. WEB CHAPTERS 22. The Economic Case For and Against Government: Five Topics Considered. 23. Financial Matters: Stocks, Bonds, Futures and Options. 24. Agriculture: Problems, Policies, and Unintended Effects. Author InformationDr. 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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