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Author:   Michael Parkin
Publisher:   Pearson Education Limited
Imprint:   Pearson Education Limited
Edition:   13th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 22.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 27.50cm
Weight:   1.109kg
ISBN:  

9781292263779

ISBN 10:   1292263776
Publication Date:   06 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Replaced By:   9781292434605
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Active
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PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. What is Economics? 2. The Economic Problem PART II: HOW MARKETS WORK 3. Demand and Supply 4. Elasticity 5. Efficiency And Equity 6. Government Actions in Markets 7. Global markets in Action PART III: HOUSEHOLDS' CHOICES 8. Utility and Demand 9. Possibilities, Preferences, and Choices PART IV: FIRMS AND MARKETS 10. Organizing Production 11. Output and Costs 12. Perfect Competition 13. Monopoly 14. Monopolistic Competition 15. Oligopoly PART V: MARKET FAILURE AND GOVERNMENT 16. Public Choices, Public Goods, and Healthcare 17. Externalities PART VI: FACTOR MARKETS, INEQUALITY, AND UNCERTAINTY 18. Markets for Factors of Production 19. Economic Inequality 20. Uncertainty and Information

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

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