Microeconomics / Edition 20

Microeconomics / Edition 20

ISBN-10:
0077660811
ISBN-13:
9780077660819
Pub. Date:
01/13/2014
Publisher:
McGraw Hill LLC
ISBN-10:
0077660811
ISBN-13:
9780077660819
Pub. Date:
01/13/2014
Publisher:
McGraw Hill LLC
Microeconomics / Edition 20

Microeconomics / Edition 20

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780077660819
Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date: 01/13/2014
Pages: 672
Product dimensions: 8.40(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Sean is an assistant professor of economics at Scripps College in Claremont, California. He is the author of the international best seller "Economics for Dummies" as well as the coauthor, along with Campbell McConnell and Stanley Brue, of the world's best-selling college economics textbook, "Economics: Principles, Problems, and Policies".
An avid martial artist, Sean is a former Aikido national champion and has coached five of his students to U.S. national aikido titles.
A recurring commentator on FOX Business, ABC News, and NPR, Sean holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. in economics from U.C. Berkeley, where he completed his dissertation under the supervision of Nobel Laureate George Akerlof.
Sean's research focuses on the often puzzling and seemingly irrational behavior of stock market investors, but he's also investigated topics as wide-ranging as the factors that affect customer tipping behavior at restaurants and why you see a lot of unionized workers only in certain industries.

Stanley L. Brue did his undergraduate work at Augustana College (South Dakota) and received its Distinguished Achievement Award in 1991. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is a professor at Pacific Lutheran University, where he has been honored as a recipient of the Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award. Professor Brue has also received the national Leavey Award for excellence in economic education. He has served as national president and chair of the Board of Trustees of Omicron Delta Epsilon International Economics Honorary. He is coauthor of Economic Scenes, Fifth edition (Prentice-Hall), Contemporary Labor Economics, Seventh edition, Essentials of Economics, First edition (both The McGraw-Hill Companies), and The Evolution of Economic Thought, Seventh edition (South-Western).

Campbell R. McConnell earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa after receiving degrees from Cornell College and the University of Illinois. He taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1953 until his retirement in 1990. He is also coauthor of Contemporary Labor Economics, Seventh edition, and Essentials of Economics, First edition (both The McGraw-Hill Companies), and has edited readers for the principles and labor economics courses. He is a recipient of both the University of Nebraska Distinguished Teaching Award and the James A. Lake Academic Freedom Award, and is past-president of the Midwest Economics Association. Professor McConnell was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Cornell College in 1973 and received its Distinguished Achievement Award in 1994.

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction to Economics and the Economy
1Limits, Alternatives, Choices
2The Market System and the Circular Flow
Part II: Price, Quantity, and Efficiency
3Demand, Supply, and Market Equilibrium
4Market Failures: Public Goods and Externalities
5Government's Role and Government Failure
Part III: Consumer Behavior
6Elasticity
7Utility Maximization
8Behavioral Economics
Part IV: Microeconomics of Product Markets
9Businesses and the Cost of Production
10Pure Competition in the Short Run
11Pure Competition in the Long Run
12Pure Monopoly
13Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
13WTechnology, R&D, and Efficiency
Part V: Microeconomics of Resource Markets and Government
14The Demand for Resources
15Wage Determination
16Rent, Interest, and Profit
17Natural Resource and Energy Economics
18Public Finance: Expenditures and Taxes
Part VI: Microeconomic Issues and Policies
19Antitrust Policy and Regulation
20Agriculture: Economics and Policy
21Income Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination
22Health Care
23Immigration
Part VII: International Economics
24International Trade
25The Balance of Payments, Exchange Rates, and Trade Deficits
25WThe Economics of Developing Countries
COI 1The United States in the Global Economy
COI 2Previous International Exchange Rate Systems

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