Published by Pearson (August 2, 2024) © 2024
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Foundations of Economics introduces you to economic principles you can use to navigate the financial decisions of your future. Each chapter concentrates on a manageable number of ideas, usually 3 to 4, with each reinforced several times throughout the text. This patient approach helps guide you through unfamiliar terrain and focuses you on the most important concepts and key skills, like reading and interpreting graphs.
The 9th Edition motivates with compelling issues and encourages learning with practice questions, to help you grasp and apply economic principles to the real world.
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- 1 Getting Started
- 2 The US and Global Economies
- 3 The Economic Problem
- 4 Demand and Supply
- 5 Elasticities of Demand and Supply
- 6 Efficiency of Fairness and Markets
- 7 Government Actions in Markets
- 8 Taxes
- 9 Global Markets in Action
- 10 Externalities
- 11 Public Goods and Common Resources
- 12 Private Information and Healthcare Markets
- 13 Consumer Choice and Demand
- 14 Production and Cost
- 15 Perfect Competition
- 16 Monopoly
- 17 Monopolistic Competition
- 18 Oligopoly
- 19 Markets for Factors of Production
- 20 Economic Inequality
- 21 GDP: A Measure Of Total Production and Income
- 22 Jobs and Unemployment
- 23 The CPI and the Cost of Living
- 24 Potential GDP and the Natural Unemployment Rate
- 25 Economic Growth
- 26 Finance, Saving, and Investment
- 27 The Monetary System
- 28 Money, Interest, and Inflation
- 29 Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand
- 30 Aggregate Expenditure Multiplier
- 31 The Short-Run Policy Tradeoff
- 32 Fiscal Policy
- 33 Monetary Policy
- 34 International Finance