(eBook) (PDF) Foundations of Economics, 9th edition

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Foundations of Economics introduces you to economic principles you can use to navigate the financial decisions of your future. Each chapter concentrates on a manageable number of ideas, usually 3 to 4, with each reinforced several times throughout the text. This patient approach helps guide you through unfamiliar terrain and focuses you on the most important concepts and key skills, like reading and interpreting graphs.The 9th Edition motivates with compelling issues and encourages learning with practice questions, to help you grasp and apply economic principles to the real world.

Published by Pearson (January 19th 2021) – Copyright © 2021
ISBN-13: 9780136713722
Subject: Economics
Category: Principles of Economics

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

1. Getting Started
2. The US and Global Economies
3. The Economic Problem
4. Demand and Supply

PART 2: A CLOSER LOOK AT MARKETS

5. Elasticities of Demand and Supply
6. Efficiency of Fairness and Markets

PART 3: HOW GOVERNMENTS INFLUENCE THE ECONOMY

7. Government Actions in Markets
8. Taxes
9. Global Markets in Action

PART 4: MARKET FAILURES AND PUBLIC POLICY

10. Externalities
11. Public Goods and Common Resources
12. Private Information and Healthcare Markets

PART 5: A CLOSER LOOK AT DECISION MAKERS

13. Consumer Choice and Demand
14. Production and Cost

PART 6: PRICES, PROFITS, AND INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE

15. Perfect Competition
16. Monopoly
17. Monopolistic Competition
18. Oligopoly

PART 7: INCOMES AND INEQUALITY

19. Markets for Factors of Production
20. Economic Inequality

PART 8: MONITORING THE MACROECONOMY

21. GDP: A Measure Of Total Production and Income
22. Jobs and Unemployment
23. The CPI and the Cost of Living

PART 9: THE REAL ECONOMY

24. Potential GDP and the Natural Unemployment Rate
25. Economic Growth
26. Finance, Saving, and Investment

PART 10: THE MONEY ECONOMY

27. The Monetary System
28. Money, Interest, and Inflation

PART 11: ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS

29. Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand
30. Aggregate Expenditure Multiplier
31. The Short-Run Policy Tradeoff

PART 12: MACROECONOMIC POLICY

32. Fiscal Policy
33. Monetary Policy
34. International Finance