Essentials of Economics

2 ed
ISBN: 978-0-07-017266-1
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 203 mm x 252 mm, Gewicht: 950 g

Building on the tremendous success of their best-selling Principles of Economics text, Brue, McConnell, and Flynn have revised their one-semester text to provide a fresh alternative. This 18-chapter textbook utilizes clear and careful language along with pedagogy and topic discussion suited to the needs of one-semester course. Brue/McConnell/Flynn is a patient, substantive treatment of micro and macro economics for the one-semester course with many up-to-date, motivating examples.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brue, Stanley

Mcconnell, Campbell

Flynn, Sean

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE: Introduction1 Limits, Alternatives, and ChoicesAppendix: Graphs and Their Meaning2The Market System and the Circular FlowPART TWO: Price, Quantity, and Efficiency3Demand, Supply, and Market Equilibrium4Elasticity of Demand and Supply5Public Goods and Externalities PART THREE: Product Markets6Businesses and Their Costs7Pure Competition8Pure Monopoly9Monopolistic Competition and OligopolyPART FOUR: Resource Markets10Wage Determination11Income Inequality and PovertyPART FIVE: GDP, Growth and Instability12GDP and Economic Growth13Business Cycles, Unemployment, and Inflation14Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply15Fiscal Policy, Deficits, and DebtPART SIX: Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy16Money and Banking17Monetary PolicyPART SEVEN: International Economics18International Trade and Exchange Rates

Über Autor(innen)

Flynn, Sean
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.

Mcconnell, Campbell
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.

Brue, Stanley
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 NebraskaLincoln. 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).