Principles of Economics, Volume 1

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Dryden Press, 1998 - Business & Economics - 797 pages
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Contents

Ten Principles of Economics
3
CHAPTER
13
Summary
14
Thinking Like an Economist
19
The Federal Reserve
27
A Parable for the Modern Economy
46
Applications of Comparative Advantage
53
The Demand Schedule and the Demand Curve
64
The Economics of Discrimination
409
Conclusion
416
Chapter 20
421
The Measurement of Inequality
422
The Political Philosophy of Redistributing
431
Conclusion
440
PART VII
448
Utility An Alternative Way to Represent
455

Chapter 5
89
The Elasticity of Supply
99
Conclusion
108
Chapter 6
111
Taxes
121
Consumers Producers and
133
The Costs of Taxation
155
Henry George and the Tax on Land
163
Should Ukraine Cut Tax Rates to Raise
169
International Trade
173
The Winners and Losers from Trade
176
The Arguments for Restricting Trade
186
PART IV
200
Externalities and Market Inefficiency
201
Private Solutions to Externalities
207
Conclusion
216
The Importance of Property Rights
233
Taxes and Equity
249
The Tradeoff between Equity
257
FIRM BEHAVIOR AND
259
THE COSTS OF PRODUCTION
263
The Various Measures of Cost
270
Costs in the Short Run and in the Long Run
277
Firms in Competitive Markets
283
Monopoly
303
Chapter 10
311
The Welfare Cost of Monopoly
315
The Prevalence of Monopoly
332
Chapter 13
335
Tournament
353
Monopolistic Competition
363
Conclusion
377
Chapter 18
383
LaborMarket Equilibrium
389
Conclusion
398
Chapter 19
401
CHAPTER 21
473
Real versus Nominal GDP
485
Conclusion
491
Correcting Economic Variables for the Effects
505
The World Bank
529
Research and Development
535
Financial Institutions in the U S Economy
542
The Market for Loanable Funds
550
Conclusion
559
Job Search
583
MONEY AND PRICES
589
Banks and the Money Supply
599
Conclusion
606
The Costs of Inflation
623
Basic
637
The International Flows of Goods and Capital
638
Real
647
Conclusion
656
PART XII
659
How Policies and Events Affect an Open
668
Conclusion
676
Aggregate Demand and Aggregate
681
Why the AggregateDemand Curve Might Shift
690
Two Causes of Recession
696
The Origins of Aggregate Demand
702
How Monetary Policy Influences Aggregate
708
The Influence of Monetary and Fiscal
709
How Fiscal Policy Influences Aggregate
716
The Economy in the Long Run and the Short
727
PART XIII
734
The Role of Supply
745
Key Concepts
755
Chapter 34
759
Glossary
777
Credits
783

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