Economics: Principles & Practices Student Edition 1995

, by Clayton, Gary E.

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UNIT 1 FUNDAMENTAL ECONOMIC CONCEPTS

(74)

What Is Economics?

(24)

Scarcity and the Science of Economics

(6)

Trade-Offs and Opportunity Costs

(5)

Basic Economic Concepts

(11)

Economic Systems and Decision Making

(22)

Economic Systems

(6)

Evaluating Economic Performance

(5)

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

(9)

Business Organizations and Economic Institutions

(26)

Business Organizations

(10)

Business Growth and Expansion

(5)

Other Organizations and Institutions

(9)

UNIT 2 MICROECONOMICS

(100)

Demand

(22)

What Is Demand?

(4)

The Law of Demand

(6)

Elasticity of Demand

(10)

Supply

102

(24)

What Is Supply?

104

(7)

The Theory of Production

111

(6)

Supply and the Role of Cost

117

(9)

Prices and Decision Making

126

(24)

Prices as Signals

128

(6)

How Prices Are Determined

134

(6)

The Price System at Work

140

(10)

Competition, Market Structures, and the Role of Government

150

(28)

Competition and Market Structures

152

(11)

Market Failures

163

(6)

The Role of Government

169

(9)

UNIT 3 MACROECONOMICS: INSTITUTIONS

178

(166)

Employment, Labor, and Wages

180

(28)

The Labor Movement

182

(7)

Resolving Union and Management Differences

189

(5)

Labor and Wages

194

(4)

Employment Trends and Issues

198

(10)

Sources of Government Revenue

208

(28)

The Economics of Taxation

210

(6)

The Federal Tax System

216

(6)

State and Local Tax Systems

222

(6)

Current Tax Issues

228

(8)

Government Spending

236

(28)

The Economics of Government Spending

238

(5)

Federal Government Expenditures

243

(6)

State and Local Government Expenditures

249

(4)

Federal Deficits and the National Debt

253

(11)

Money and Banking

264

(28)

The Evolution of Money

266

(6)

Early Banking and Monetary Standards

272

(7)

The Development of Modern Banking

279

(5)

Crisis, Reform, and Evolution in the 1980s

284

(8)

The Federal Reserve System and Monetary Policy

292

(26)

The Federal Reserve System

294

(8)

Monetary Policy

302

(7)

Monetary Policy, Banking, and the Economy

309

(9)

Financial Investments, Markets, and Equities

318

(26)

Savings and the Financial System

320

(5)

Investing in Financial Assets

325

(9)

Investing in Equities, Futures, and Options

334

(10)

UNIT 4 MACROECONOMICS: POLICIES

344

(100)

Gross Domestic Product

346

(22)

Measuring the Nation's Output

348

(6)

Measuring the Nation's Income

354

(7)

GDP and Changes in the Price Level

361

(7)

Population, Economic Growth, and Business Cycles

368

(24)

Population

370

(6)

Economic Growth

376

(7)

Business Cycles and Fluctuations

383

(9)

Unemployment, Inflation, and Poverty

392

(24)

Unemployment

394

(5)

Inflation

399

(6)

Poverty and the Distribution of Income

405

(11)

Achieving Economic Stability

416

(28)

The Cost of Economic Instability

418

(4)

Macroeconomic Equilibrium

422

(5)

Stabilization Policies

427

(9)

Economics and Politics

436

(8)

UNIT 5 INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL ECONOMICS

444

(96)

International Trade

446

(24)

Absolute and Comparative Advantage

448

(5)

Barriers to International Trade

453

(8)

Financing and Trade Deficits

461

(9)

Comparative Economic Systems

470

(26)

The Spectrum of Economic Systems

472

(5)

The Rise and Fall of Communism

477

(6)

The Transition to Capitalism

483

(5)

The Various Faces of Capitalism

488

(8)

Developing Countries

496

(22)

Economic Development

498

(6)

A Framework for Development

504

(5)

Financing Economic Development

509

(9)

Global Economic Challenges

518

(22)

The Global Demand for Resources

520

(7)

Economic Incentives and Resources

527

(5)

Applying the Economic Way of Thinking

532

(8)

Appendix

540

(2)

World Map

542

(2)

United States Map

544

(2)

Life Skills

546

(10)

Glossary

556

(14)

Spanish Handbook

570

(1)

Spanish Glossary

570

(16)

Spanish Chapter Digests

586

(21)

Index

607

(19)

Acknowledgments

626

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