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008 060616s2007 mdua b 001 0 eng
010 2006020252
020 9780742554290 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 0742554295 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 9780742554306 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 0742554309 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 DLC|cDLC|dDLC
050 00 HB171.5|b.W3 2007
082 00 330|222
100 1 Weaver, Frederick Stirton,|d1939-
245 10 Economic literacy :|bbasic economics with an attitude /
|cFrederick S. Weaver
250 2nd ed
260 Lanham, MD :|bRowman & Littlefield Publishers,|cc2007
300 xiv, 269 p. :|bill. ;|c24 cm
504 Includes bibliographical references and indexes
505 0 Introduction -- The organization of the book -- I.
Microeconomics and the theory of markets -- 1. Demand and
supply -- Demand -- Income and wealth -- Prices of other
goods -- Tastes -- Expectations -- Supply -- Prices of
inputs -- Technology -- Expectations -- Market equilibrium
-- Case 1 -- Case 2 -- Case 3 -- Case 4 -- Elasticity --
Sales taxes -- Case 5 -- Case 6 -- 2. The theory of the
firm, market structures, factor markets, and the
distribution of income -- Perfect competition -- Market
failure -- Monopoly -- Price discrimination --
Monopolistic competition -- Oligopoly -- The end of
oligopoly? -- Deregulation -- The theory of factor pricing
-- The distribution of income -- II. Macroeconomics -- 3.
The economy as a whole : definitions and analyses -- Why
macroeconomics? -- How gross is the gross domestic
product? -- Effective demand -- Households and consumption
-- The business sector and investment -- The public sector
-- 4. Fiscal policy, monetary policy, recession, and
inflation -- Fiscal policy : taxing and spending -- Money
is as money does -- Financial markets, the Federal Reserve
system, and monetary policy -- Monetary policy -- Business
cycles, inflation, and unemployment -- Up, up, up,... --
Down, down, down,... -- Additional aspects of
stabilization policy -- Doubts about inflation-
unemployment trade-off -- Implications of greater
international economic integration -- III. International
economics and national economies -- 5. International
economics and comparative advantage -- The idea of
comparative advantage -- Exchange rates and adjustment
mechanisms -- Gold standard -- Flexible exchange rates --
International investment and the balance of payments --
Government policy and the international economy : tariffs,
quotas, and exchange rates -- Free trade determining
public policy -- 6. The international economy : the rise
and fall of Bretton Woods -- The dollar exchange standard,
1944-1971 -- Transnational corporations -- The
transformation of the international economy -- The end of
the Bretton Woods payments system -- The beginning of a
new international economy -- The new international economy
-- Two caveats -- A final note on the place of the United
States in the global economy -- Appendix A. Input-output
economics -- Appendix B. Websites of related interest.
650 0 Economics
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