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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0133462544
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0133462548
Author: Robin Bade; Michael Parkin

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For one-semester Principles of Economics courses at two- and four-year colleges and universities

A practice-oriented learning system that breaks the traditional textbook mold

To help students focus on the most important concepts–and effectively practice application of those concepts–Essential Foundations of Economics is structured around a Checklist/Checkpoint system. The result is a patient, confidence-building program that prepares students to use economics in their everyday lives, regardless of what their future career will be.

Table contents:

Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 Getting Started
Chapter Checklist
1.1 Definition and Questions
Scarcity
Economics Defined
What, How, and For Whom?
Can the Pursuit of Self-Interest Be in the Social Interest?
Checkpoint 1.1
1.2 The Economic Way of Thinking
Economic Ideas
A Choice Is a Tradeoff
Cost: What You Must Give Up
Benefit: What You Gain
Rational Choice
How Much? Choosing at the Margin
Choices Respond to Incentives
Economics as Social Science
Economics as Policy Tool
Checkpoint 1.2
Chapter summary
Chapter Checkpoint
Appendix: Making and Using Graphs
Basic Idea
Interpreting Data Graphs
Interpreting Graphs Used in Economic Models
The Slope of a Relationship
Relationships Among More Than Two Variables
Appendix Checkpoint
Eye on the Past Adam Smith and the Birth of Economics as a Social Science
Eye on the Benefit and cost of school Did You Make the Right Decision?
Chapter 2 The U.S. and Global Economies
Chapter Checklist
2.1 What, How, and For Whom?
What Do We Produce?
How Do We Produce?
For Whom Do We Produce?
Checkpoint 2.1
2.2 The Global Economy
The People
The Economies
What in the Global Economy?
How in the Global Economy?
For Whom in the Global Economy?
Checkpoint 2.2
2.3 The Circular Flows
Households and Firms
Markets
Real Flows and Money Flows
Governments
Governments in the Circular Flow
Circular Flows in the Global Economy
Checkpoint 2.3
Chapter summary
Chapter Checkpoint
EYE on the U.S. Economy What We Produce
EYE on the PAST Changes in What We Produce
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY Changes in How We Produce in the Information Economy
EYE on the Dreamliner Who Makes the Dreamliner?
EYE on the GLOBAL ECONOMY Differences in How We Produce
EYE on YOUR LIFE The U.S. and Global Economies in Your Life
EYE on the PAST Growing Government
EYE on the GLOBAL ECONOMY The Ups and Downs in International Trade
Chapter 3 The Economic Problem
Chapter Checklist
3.1 Production Possibilities
Production Possibilities Frontier
Checkpoint 3.1
3.2 Opportunity Cost
The Opportunity Cost of a Cell Phone
Opportunity Cost and the Slope of the PPF
Opportunity Cost Is a Ratio
Increasing Opportunity Costs Are Everywhere
Your Increasing Opportunity Cost
Checkpoint 3.2
3.3 Economic Growth
Checkpoint 3.3
3.4 Specialization and Trade
Absolute Advantage and Comparative Advantage
Comparative Advantage: An Example
Achieving Gains from Trade
Checkpoint 3.4
Chapter summary
Chapter Checkpoint
EYE on YOUR LIFE Your Production Possibilities Frontier
EYE on the ENVIRONMENT Is Wind Power Free?
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY Expanding Our Production Possibilities
EYE on the GLOBAL ECONOMY Hong Kong’s Rapid Economic Growth
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY No One Knows How to Make a Pencil
EYE on YOUR LIFE Your Comparative Advantage
Chapter 4 Demand and Supply
Chapter Checklist
Competitive Markets
4.1 Demand
The Law of Demand
Demand Schedule and Demand Curve
Individual Demand and Market Demand
Changes in Demand
Change in Quantity Demanded Versus Change in Demand
Checkpoint 4.1
4.2 Supply
The Law of Supply
Supply Schedule and Supply Curve
Individual Supply and Market Supply
Changes in Supply
Change in Quantity Supplied Versus Change in Supply
Checkpoint 4.2
4.3 Market Equilibrium
Price: A Market’s Automatic Regulator
Predicting Price Changes: Three Questions
Effects of Changes in Demand
Effects of Changes in Supply
Effects of Changes in Both Demand and Supply
Checkpoint 4.3
Chapter summary
Chapter Checkpoint
EYE on YOUR LIFE Understanding and Using Demand and Supply
EYE on Tuition Why Does Tuition Keep Rising?
EYE on the GLOBAL ECONOMY The Market for Solar Panels
Part 2 A Closer Look at Markets
Chapter 5 Elasticities of Demand and Supply
Chapter Checklist
5.1 The Price Elasticity of Demand
Percentage Change in Price
Percentage Change in Quantity Demanded
Comparing the Percentage Changes in Price and Quantity
Elastic and Inelastic Demand
Influences on the Price Elasticity of Demand
Computing the Price Elasticity of Demand
Interpreting the Price Elasticity of Demand Number
Elasticity Along a Linear Demand Curve
Total Revenue and the Price Elasticity of Demand
Applications of the Price Elasticity of Demand
Checkpoint 5.1
5.2 The Price Elasticity of Supply
Elastic and Inelastic Supply
Influences on the Price Elasticity of Supply
Computing the Price Elasticity of Supply
Checkpoint 5.2
5.3 Cross Elasticity and Income Elasticity
Cross Elasticity of Demand
Income Elasticity of Demand
Checkpoint 5.3
Chapter summary
Chapter Checkpoint
EYE on the GLOBAL ECONOMY Price Elasticities of Demand
EYE on the Price of Gasoline What Do You Do When the Price of Gasoline Rises?
EYE on YOUR LIFE Your Price Elasticities of Demand
Chapter 6 Efficiency and Fairness of Markets
Chapter Checklist
6.1 Allocation Methods and efficiency
Resource Allocation Methods
Using Resources Efficiently
Checkpoint 6.1
6.2 Value, Price, and Consumer Surplus
Demand and Marginal Benefit
Consumer Surplus
Checkpoint 6.2
6.3 Cost, Price, and Producer Surplus
Supply and Marginal Cost
Producer Surplus
Checkpoint 6.3
6.4 Are Markets Efficient?
Marginal Benefit Equals Marginal Cost
Total Surplus Is Maximized
The Invisible Hand
Market Failure
Sources of Market Failure
Alternatives to the Market
Checkpoint 6.4
6.5 Are Markets Fair?
It’s Not Fair If the Rules Aren’t Fair
It’s Not Fair If the Result Isn’t Fair
Compromise
Checkpoint 6.5
Chapter summary
Chapter Checkpoint
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY The Invisible Hand and e-Commerce
EYE on Price Gouging Should Price Gouging Be Illegal?
EYE on YOUR LIFE Allocation Methods, Efficiency, and Fairness
Chapter 7 Government Actions in Markets
Chapter Checklist
7.1 Taxes on Buyers and Sellers
Tax Incidence
Taxes and Efficiency
Incidence, Inefficiency, and Elasticity
Incidence, Inefficiency, and the Elasticity of Demand
Incidence, Inefficiency, and the Elasticity of Supply
Checkpoint 7.1
7.2 Price Ceilings
A Rent Ceiling
Are Rent Ceilings Efficient?
Are Rent Ceilings Fair?
If Rent Ceilings Are So Bad, Why Do We Have Them?
Checkpoint 7.2
7.3 Price Floors
The Minimum Wage
Is the Minimum Wage Efficient?
Is the Minimum Wage Fair?
If the Minimum Wage Is So Bad, Why Do We Have It?
Checkpoint 7.3
7.4 Price Supports in Agriculture
How Governments Intervene in Markets for Farm Products
Price Support: An Illustration
Checkpoint 7.4
Chapter summary
Chapter Checkpoint
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY The Federal Minimum Wage
EYE on Price Regulation Can the President Repeal the Laws of Supply and Demand?
EYE on YOUR LIFE Price Ceilings and Price Floors
Chapter 8 Global Markets in Action
Chapter Checklist
8.1 How Global Markets Work
International Trade Today
What Drives International Trade?
Why the United States Imports T-Shirts
Why the United States Exports Airplanes
Checkpoint 8.1
8.2 Winners, Losers, and Net Gains From Trade
Gains and Losses from Imports
Gains and Losses from Exports
Checkpoint 8.2
8.3 International Trade Restrictions
Tariffs
Import Quotas
Other Import Barriers
Export Subsidies
Checkpoint 8.3
8.4 The Case Against Protection
Three Traditional Arguments for Protection
Four Newer Arguments for Protection
Why Is International Trade Restricted?
Checkpoint 8.4
Chapter summary
Chapter Checkpoint
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY U.S. Exports and Imports
EYE on Globalization Who Wins and Who Loses from Globalization?
EYE on the PAST The History of U.S. Tariffs
EYE on YOUR LIFE International Trade
Chapter 9 Externalities: Pollution, Education,and Health Care
Chapter Checklist
Externalities in Our Daily Lives
Negative Production Externalities
Positive Production Externalities
Negative Consumption Externalities
Positive Consumption Externalities
9.1 Negative Externalities: Pollution
Private Costs and Social Costs
Production and Pollution: How Much?
Establish Property Rights
Mandate Clean Technology
Tax or Cap and Price Pollution
Checkpoint 9.1
9.2 Positive Externalities: Education and Health Care
Private Benefits and Social Benefits
Government Actions in the Face of External Benefits
Economic Problems in Health-Care Markets
Health-Care Systems in Other Countries
A Reform Idea
Checkpoint 9.2
Chapter summary
Chapter Checkpoint
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY U.S. Air Pollution Trends
EYE on Climate Change How Can We Limit Climate Change?
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY Education Quality: Charter Schools and Vouchers
EYE on YOUR LIFE Externalities in Your Life
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY Health Care in the United States: A Snapshot
Part 3 Prices, Profits, and Industry Performance
Chapter 10 Production and Cost
Chapter Checklist
10.1 Economic Cost and Profit
The Firm’s Goal
Accounting Cost and Profit
Opportunity Cost
Economic Profit
Checkpoint 10.1
Short Run and Long Run
10.2 Short-Run Production
Total Product
Marginal Product
Average Product
Checkpoint 10.2
10.3 Short-Run Cost
Total Cost
Marginal Cost
Average Cost
Why the Average Total Cost Curve Is U-Shaped
Cost Curves and Product Curves
Shifts in the Cost Curves
Checkpoint 10.3
10.4 Long-Run Cost
Plant Size and Cost
The Long-Run Average Cost Curve
Checkpoint 10.4
Chapter summary
Chapter Checkpoint
EYE on YOUR LIFE Your Average and Marginal Grades
EYE on Retailers’ Costs Which Store Has the Lower Costs: Wal-Martor 7-Eleven?
Chapter 11 Perfect Competition
Chapter Checklist
Market Types
Perfect Competition
Other Market Types
11.1 A Firm’s Profit-Maximizing Choices
Price Taker
Revenue Concepts
Profit-Maximizing Output
Marginal Analysis and the Supply Decision
Temporary Shutdown Decision
The Firm’s Short-Run Supply Curve
Checkpoint 11.1
11.2 Output, Price, and Profit in the Short Run
Market Supply in the Short Run
Short-Run Equilibrium in Normal Times
Short-Run Equilibrium in Good Times
Short-Run Equilibrium in Bad Times
Checkpoint 11.2
11.3 Output, Price, and Profit in the Long Run
Entry and Exit
The Effects of Exit
Change in Demand
Technological Change
Is Perfect Competition Efficient?
Is Perfect Competition Fair?
Checkpoint 11.3
Chapter summary
Chapter Checkpoint
EYE on Record Stores Where Have All the Record Stores Gone?
EYE on YOUR LIFE The Perfect Competition that You Encounter
Chapter 12 Monopoly
Chapter Checklist
12.1 Monopoly and How it Arises
How Monopoly Arises
Monopoly Price-Setting Strategies
Checkpoint 12.1
12.2 Single-Price Monopoly
Price and Marginal Revenue
Marginal Revenue and Elasticity
Output and Price Decision
Checkpoint 12.2
12.3 Monopoly and Competition Compared
Output and Price
Is Monopoly Efficient?
Is Monopoly Fair?
Rent Seeking
Checkpoint 12.3
12.4 Price Discrimination
Price Discrimination and Consumer Surplus
Profiting by Price Discriminating
Perfect Price Discrimination
Price Discrimination and Efficiency
Checkpoint 12.4
12.5 Monopoly Regulation
Efficient Regulation of a Natural Monopoly
Second-Best Regulation of a Natural Monopoly
Checkpoint 12.5
Chapter summary
Chapter Checkpoint
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY Airline Price Discrimination
EYE on Microsoft Are Microsoft’s Prices Too High?
EYE on YOUR LIFE Monopoly in Your Everyday Life
Chapter 13 Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
Chapter Checklist
13.1 What is Monopolistic Competition?
Large Number of Firms
Product Differentiation
Competing on Quality, Price, and Marketing
Entry and Exit
Identifying Monopolistic Competition
Output and Price in Monopolistic Competition
The Firm’s Profit-Maximizing Decision
Long Run: Zero Economic Profit
Monopolistic Competition and Perfect Competition
Checkpoint 13.1
13.2 Product Development and Marketing
Innovation and Product Development
Marketing
Checkpoint 13.2
13.3 Oligopoly
Collusion
Duopoly in Airplanes
The Duopolists’ Dilemma
Checkpoint 13.3
13.4 Game Theory
What Is a Game?
The Prisoners’ Dilemma
The Duopolists’ Dilemma
Advertising and Research Games in Oligopoly
Repeated Games
Is Oligopoly Efficient?
Checkpoint 13.4
Chapter summary
Chapter Checkpoint
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY Examples of Monopolistic Competition
EYE on cell phones Which Cell Phone?
EYE on YOUR LIFE Some Selling Costs You Pay
EYE on YOUR LIFE A Game You Might Play
EYE on the cell-phone OLIGOPOLY Is Two Too Few?
Part 4 Monitoring the Macroeconomy
Chapter 14 GDP: A Measure of Total Production and Income
Chapter Checklist
14.1 GDP, Income, and Expenditure
GDP Defined
Circular Flows in the U.S. Economy
Expenditure Equals Income
Checkpoint 14.1
14.2 Measuring U.S. GDP
The Expenditure Approach
The Income Approach
GDP and Related Measures of Production and Income
Real GDP and Nominal GDP
Calculating Real GDP
Using the Real GDP Numbers
Checkpoint 14.2
14.3 The Uses and Limitations of Real GDP
The Standard of Living Over Time
Tracking the Course of the Business Cycle
The Standard of Living Among Countries
Goods and Services Omitted from GDP
Other Influences on the Standard of Living
Checkpoint 14.3
Chapter summary
Chapter Checkpoint
Appendix: Measuring Real GDP
The Problem With Base-Year Prices
Value Production in the Prices of Adjacent Years
Appendix Checkpoint
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY Is a Computer Program an Intermediate Good or a Final Good?
EYE on the Booms and Busts How Do We Track the Booms and Busts of our Economy?
EYE on YOUR LIFE Making GDP Personal
EYE on the GLOBAL ECONOMY Which Country Has the Highest Standard of Living?
Chapter 15 Jobs and Unemployment
Chapter Checklist
15.1 Labor Market Indicators
Current Population Survey
Population Survey Criteria
Two Main Labor Market Indicators
Alternative Measures of Unemployment
Checkpoint 15.1
15.2 Labor Market Trends and Fluctuations
Unemployment Rate
The Participation Rate
Alternative Measures of Unemployment
A Closer Look at Part-Time Employment
Checkpoint 15.2
15.3 Unemployment and Full Employment
Frictional Unemployment
Structural Unemployment
Cyclical Unemployment
“Natural” Unemployment
Unemployment and Real GDP
Checkpoint 15.3
Chapter summary
Chapter Checkpoint
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY The Current Population Survey
EYE on the GLOBAL ECONOMY Unemployment Around the World
EYE on the GLOBAL ECONOMY Women in the Labor Force
EYE on the Unemployed How Long Does it Take to Find a Job?
EYE on YOUR LIFE Your Labor Market Status and Activity
Chapter 16 The CPI and the Cost of Living
Chapter Checklist
16.1 The Consumer Price Index
Reading the CPI Numbers
Constructing the CPI
The CPI Market Basket
The Monthly Price Survey
Calculating the CPI
Measuring Inflation and Deflation
Checkpoint 16.1
16.2 The CPI and Other Price Level Measures
Sources of Bias in the CPI
The Magnitude of the Bias
Two Consequences of the CPI Bias
Alternative Measures of the Price Level and Inflation Rate
Checkpoint 16.2
16.3 Nominal and Real Values
Dollars and Cents at Different Dates
Nominal and Real Values in Macroeconomics
Nominal GDP and Real GDP
Nominal Wage Rate and Real Wage Rate
Nominal Interest Rate and Real Interest Rate
Checkpoint 16.3
Chapter summary
Chapter Checkpoint
EYE on the PAST 700 Years of Inflation and Deflation
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY Deflating the GDP Balloon
EYE on the PAST The Nominal and Real Wage Rates of Presidents of the United States
EYE on Box Ofice Hits Which Movie Really Was the Biggest Box Office Hit?
EYE on YOUR LIFE A Student’s CPI
Part 5 Understanding The Macroeconomy
Chapter 17 Potential GDP and Economic Growth
Chapter Checklist
Macroeconomic Approaches and Pathways
The Three Main Schools of Thought
Today’s Consensus
The Road Ahead
17.1 Potential GDP
The Production Function
The Labor Market
Checkpoint 17.1
17.2 The Basics of Economic Growth
Calculating Growth Rates
The Magic of Sustained Growth
Checkpoint 17.2
17.3 Labor Productivity Growth
Labor Productivity
Saving and Investment in Physical Capital
Expansion of Human Capital and Discovery of New Technologies
Combined Influences Bring Labor Productivity Growth
What Keeps Labor Productivity Growing?
Checkpoint 17.3
17.4 Achieving Faster Growth
Preconditions for Economic Growth
Policies to Achieve Faster Growth
How Much Difference Can Policy Make?
Checkpoint 17.4
Chapter summary
Chapter Checkpoint
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY The Lucas Wedge and the Okun Gap
EYE on the GLOBAL ECONOMY Potential GDP in the United States and European Union
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY Why Do Americans Earn More and Produce More Than Europeans?
EYE on the PAST How Fast Has Real GDP per Person Grown?
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY U.S. Labor Productivity Growth Since 1960
EYE on YOUR LIFE How You Influence and Are Influenced by Economic Growth
EYE on Rich and Poor Nations Why Are Some Nations Rich and Others Poor?
Chapter 18 Money and the Monetary System
Chapter Checklist
18.1 What is Money?
Definition of Money
The Functions of Money
Money Today
Official Measures of Money: M1 and M2
Checks, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, and E-Checks
An Embryonic New Money: E-Cash
Checkpoint 18.1
18.2 The Banking System
Commercial Banks
Thrift Institutions,
Money Market Funds
Checkpoint 18.2
18.3 The Federal Reserve System
The Structure of the Federal Reserve
The Fed’s Policy Tools
How the Fed’s Policy Tools Work
Checkpoint 18.3
18.4 Regulating the Quantity of Money
Creating Deposits by Making Loans
How Open Market Operations Change the Monetary Base
The Multiplier Effect of an Open Market Operation
The Money Multiplier
Checkpoint 18.4
Chapter summary
Chapter Checkpoint
EYE on the PAST The “Invention” of Banking
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY Commercial Banks Under Stress in the Financial Crisis
EYE on YOUR LIFE Money and Your Role in Its Creation
EYE on Creating Money How Does the Fed Create Money and Regulate Its Quantity?
Chapter 19 Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand
Chapter Checklist
19.1 Aggregate Supply
Aggregate Supply Basics
Changes in Aggregate Supply
Checkpoint 19.1
19.2 Aggregate Demand
Aggregate Demand Basics
Changes in Aggregate Demand
The Aggregate Demand Multiplier
Checkpoint 19.2
19.3 Explaining Economic Trends and Fluctuations
Macroeconomic Equilibrium
Three Types of Macroeconomic Equilibrium
Economic Growth and Inflation Trends
The Business Cycle
Inflation Cycles
Deflation and the Great Depression
Checkpoint 19.3
Chapter summary
Chapter Checkpoint
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY U.S. Economic Growth, Inflation, and the Business Cycle
EYE on YOUR LIFE Using the AS-AD Model
EYE on the Business Cycle Why Did the U.S. Economy Go into Recession in 2008?
Chapter 20 Fiscal Policy and Monetary Policy
Chapter Checklist
20.1 The Federal Budget and Fiscal Policy
The Federal Budget
Budget Balance and Debt
Discretionary Fiscal Policy: Demand-Side Effects
A Successful Fiscal Stimulus
Discretionary Fiscal Policy: Supply-Side Effects
Limitations of Discretionary Fiscal Policy
Automatic Fiscal Policy
Cyclical and Structural Budget Balances
Schools of Thought and Cracks in Today’s Consensus
Checkpoint 20.1
20.2 The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy
The Monetary Policy Process
The Federal Funds Rate Target
The Ripple Effects of the Fed’s Actions
Monetary Stabilization in the AS-AD Model
Limitations of Monetary Stabilization Policy
Checkpoint 20.2
Chapter summary
Chapter Checkpoint
EYE on the PAST Federal Tax Revenues, Outlays, Deficits, and Debt
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY A Social Security and Medicare Time Bomb
EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY The U.S. Structural and Cyclical Budget Balances
Eye on Fiscal Stimulus Can Fiscal Stimulus End a Recession?
Eye on the Fed In A Crisis Did the Fed Save Us From Another Great Depression?
Eye on Your Life Fiscal and Monetary Policy and How They Affect You
Glossary
Index
Credits

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