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Understanding economics
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Publisher
M.E. Sharpe
Publication Date
c1999
Language
English
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From the Book
ch. 1. Why study economics?
ch. 2. Definition, character, and misuse of economics
ch. 3. How some basic things are determined by an economic system
ch. 4. Caeteris paribus and prediction
ch. 5. Production possibilities frontier
ch. 6. Wants, resources, technology, productive units
ch. 7. Economic principle
ch. 8. Dehumanized utility function and rationality
ch. 9. Human ends
ch. 10. Individual and social decision-making
ch. 11. Price determination
ch. 12. Elasticities of demand and supply
ch. 13. Market prices and social values
ch. 14. Perfect competition norm
ch. 15. Invisible hand
ch. 16. Influence and safety of finance
ch. 17. Firm and profit maximization
ch. 18. Oligopoly, stability, and public policy
ch. 19. Expectations, uncertainties, and probabilities
ch. 20. Externalities and efficiency
ch. 21. Responsibility to stockholders and others
ch. 22. Functional income distribution theory
ch. 23. Minimum wage law
ch. 24. Marginal productivity as an implicit ethical norm
ch. 25. More on the distribution of income and wealth
ch. 26. Equity-efficiency trade-off
ch. 27. Aggregate demand and supply
ch. 28. That Keynesian revolution controversy again
ch. 29. Welfare state
ch. 30. Inflation and stagflation
ch. 31. Rules versus discretion in macroeconomic policy
ch. 32. International economic relations
ch. 33. International monetary system
ch. 34. Economic roles of government
ch. 35. Comparative economic systems
ch. 36. Economic development
ch. 37. Growth and sustainable economies
ch. 38. What picture of social problems?
ch. 39. Relation to social philosophy
ch. 40. Humanistic economics is needed.
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9780765604835
9780765604842
9780765604842
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