Microeconomics 13th Edition by Roger A. Arnold, ISBN-13: 978-1337617406
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- Publisher: Cengage Learning; 13th edition (January 1, 2018)
- Language: English
- 624 pages
- ISBN-10: 1337617407
- ISBN-13: 978-1337617406
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Table of Contents:
AN INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS. Part I: ECONOMICS: THE SCIENCE OF SCARCITY.
1. What Economics Is About. Appendix A Working with Diagrams. Appendix B Should You Major in Economics?
2. Production Possibilities Frontier Framework.
3. Supply and Demand: Theory.
4. Prices: Free, Controlled, and Relative.
5. Supply, Demand, and Price: Applications. MICROECONOMICS. Part II: MICROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS.
6. Elasticity.
7. Consumer Choice: Maximizing Utility and Behavioral Economics. Appendix C Budget Constraint and Indifference Curve Analysis.
8. Production and Costs. Part III: PRODUCT MARKETS AND POLICIES.
9. Perfect Competition.
10. Monopoly.
11. Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly, and Game Theory.
12. Government and Product Markets: Antitrust and Regulation. Part IV: FACTOR MARKETS AND RELATED ISSUES.
13. Factor Markets: With Emphasis on the Labor Market.
14. Wages, Union, and Labor.
15. The Distribution of Income and Poverty.
16. Interest, Rent, and Profit. Part V: MARKET FAILURE, PUBLIC CHOICE, AND SPECIAL-INTEREST-GROUP POLITICS.
17. Market Failure: Externalities, Public Goods, and Asymmetric Information.
18. Public Choice and Special-Interest-Group Politics. Part VI: ECONOMICS THEORY-BUILDING AND EVERYDAY LIFE.
19. Building Theories to Explain Everyday Life: From Observations to Questions to Theories to Predictions. THE GLOBAL ECONOMY. Part VII: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND GLOBALIZATION.
20. International Trade.
21. International Finance. WEB CHAPTERS.
22. The Economic Case For and Against Government: Five Topics Considered.
23. Stocks, Bonds, Futures, and Options.
Dr. Roger A. Arnold is at California State University San Marcos, where his fields of specialization are general microeconomic theory and monetary theory. Dr. Arnold earned his B.S. in economics from the University of Birmingham in England. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Tech.
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