Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Part I Getting Acquainted With Economics
• 1 What Is Economics?
• 2 The Economy: Myth and Reality
• 3 The Fundamental Economic Problem: Scarcity and Choice
• 4 Supply and Demand: An Initial Look
• Part II The Building Blocks Of Demand And Supply
• 5 Consumer Choice: Individual and Market Demand
• 6 Demand and Elasticity
• 7 Production, Inputs, and Cost: Building Blocks for Supply Analysis
• 8 Output, Price, and Profit: The Importance of Marginal Analysis
• 9 The Economics of the Stock Market
• Part III Markets And The Price System
• 10 The Firm and the Industry under Perfect Competition
• 11 Monopoly
• 12 Between Competition and Monopoly
• 13 Limiting Market Power: Regulation and Antitrust
• Part IV The Virtues And Limitations Of Markets
• 14 The Price System and the Case for Free Markets
• 15 The Market Mechanism: Shortcomings and Remedies
• 16 Innovation and Growth: The Free Market?s Greatest Triumph
• 17 Externalities, the Environment and Natural Resources
• 18 Taxation and Resource Allocation
• Part V The Distribution Of Income
• 19 Pricing the Factors of Production
• 20 Labor: The Human Input
• 21 Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination
• Part VI The Macroeconomy: Aggregate Supply And Demand
• 22 The Realm of Macroeconomics
• 23 The Goals of Macroeconomic Policy
• 24 Economic Growth: Theory and Policy
• 25 Aggregate Demand and the Powerful Consumer
• 26 Demand-Side Equilibrium: Unemployment or Inflation?
• 27 Supply-Side Equilibrium: Unemployment and Inflation?
• Part VII Fiscal And Monetary Policy
• 28 Managing Aggregate Demand: Fiscal Policy
• 29 Money and the Banking System
• 30 Monetary Policy and the National Economy
• 31 The Debate Over Monetary and Fiscal Policy
• 32 Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy, and Growth
• 33 Inflation and Growth: The Phillips Curve
• Part VIII The United States In The World Economy
• 34 International Trade and Comparative Advantage
• 35 The International Monetary System: Order or Disorder?
• 36 Exchange Rates and the Macroeconomy

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

William Jack Baumol was born in the South Bronx, New York on February 22, 1922. He served in the Army during World War II and got a job at the Agriculture Department, where he worked on allocating grain supplies to starving countries. He graduated from City College and enrolled in the London School of Economics in 1947, after initially being rejected. Less than six weeks after school started, he was hired to become a member of the faculty. He taught at Princeton University from 1949 until 1970 and then taught at New York University from 1971 until his retirement in 2014.

As an economist, he identified Baumol's cost disease, which explains why the cost of services, like haircuts and college educations, rises faster than the cost of goods, like T-shirts. He published dozens of books, hundreds of papers, and several congressional testimonies on entrepreneurs, environmental policy, corporate finance, stock sales, the economics of Broadway theaters, inflation, and competition and monopolies. He died on May 4, 2017 at the age of 95.

(Bowker Author Biography)