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Written for students taking the principles of economics course. By presenting ideas clearly, at an accessible level, and in the context of newsworthy applications, Economics Today: The Macro View is also a valuable resource for professionals seeking a current, real-world introduction to economics.? ? ?Economics Today-Bringing the Real World to Your Students?Students learn best when they see concepts applied to examples from their everyday lives. This new edition of Economics Today: The Micro View covers leading-edge issues while lowering barriers to student learning. The text relentlessly pursues the fundamental objective of showing students how economics is front and center in their own lives while providing them with many ways to evaluate their understanding of key concepts covered in each chapter.?Each chapter begins and ends with an Issues and Applications feature, which introduces a timely issue in the chapter opener and analyzes the issue using the economic tools learned in that chapter at the end. This text is also available with MyEconLab (R), which includes assessment questions that tie to these Issues and Applications, as well as ABC News video clips. With MyEconLab, students can continue working problems online and receive personalized tutorial resources. Visit MyEconLab for more information.?Note: If you are purchasing the standalone text (ISBN: 0132948885) or electronic version, MyEconLab does not come automatically packaged with the text. To purchase MyEconLab, please visit: www.myeconlab.com or you can purchase a package of the physical text + MyEconLab by searching the Pearson Higher Education web site. MyEconLab is not a self-paced technology and should only be purchased when required by an instructor.
Contents
I. INTRODUCTION1. The Nature of Economics2. Scarcity and the World of Trade-Offs3. Demand and Supply4. Extensions of Demand and Supply Analysis5. Public Spending and Public Choice6. Funding the Public Sector?7. Demand and Supply Elasticity 8. Consumer Choice ?VI. MARKET STRUCTURE, RESOURCE ALLOCATION, AND REGULATION9. The Firm. Cost and Output Determination10. Perfect Competition 11. Monopoly 12. Monopolistic Competition 13. Oligopoly and Strategic Behavior 14. Regulation and Antitrust Policy in a Globalized Economy ?VII. LABOR RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT15. The Labor Market. Demand, Supply, and Outsourcing16. Income, Poverty and Health Care 17. Environmental Economics ?VIII. GLOBAL ECONOMICS18. Comparative Advantage and the Open Economy
