Principles of Economics, Brief Edition

2. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-07-122077-4
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education

Buch, Englisch, 704 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 274 mm, Gewicht: 1388 g

In recent years, innovative texts in mathematics, science, foreign languages, and other fields have achieved dramatic pedagogical gains by abandoning the traditional encyclopedic approach in favor of teaching a shorter list of core principles in depth. Two well-respected writers and researchers, Bob Frank and Ben Bernanke, have shown that the less-is-more approach affords similar gains in introductory economics. The authors introduce a coherent short list of core principles and reinforce them by illustrating and applying each in numerous contexts. Students are periodically asked to apply these principles and to answer related questions and exercises. The BRIEF editions were developed for instructors who appreciate core principles approach, and desire a more manageable amount of content and slightly less rigor. In the brief editions, the authors made careful choices of material to eliminate and condense, in order to produce of more concise coverage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frank, Robert

Bernanke, Ben

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1 Introduction

1 Thinking Like an Economist

2 Comparative Advantage

3 Supply and Demand

PART 2 Competition and the Invisible Hand

4 Demand and Elasticity

5 Perfectly Competitive Supply

6 Efficiency, Exchange, and the Invisible Hand in Action

PART 3 Market Imperfections

7 Monopoly, Oligopoly, and Monopolistic Competition

8 Games and Strategic Behavior

9 Externalities and Property Rights

PART 4 Economics of Public Policy

10 Using Economics to Make Better Policy Decisions

PART 5 Macroeconomics: Data and Issues

11 Spending, Income, and GDP 12 Inflation and the Price Level

13 Wages and Unemployment

PART 6 The Economy in the Long Run

14 Economic Growth

15 Saving, Capital Formation, and Financial Markets

16 Money, Prices, and the Financial System

PART 7 The Economy in the Short Run

17 Short-Term Economic Fluctuations

18 Spending, Output, and Fiscal Policy

19 Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve

20 Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, and Stabilization Policy

PART 8 The International Economy

21 Exchange Rates, International Trade, and Capital Flows

Über Autor(innen)

Bernanke, Ben
Professor  Bernanke  received  his B.A.  in  economics  from  Harvard University  in  1975  and  his  Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1979. He   taught   at   the   Stanford Graduate   School   of   Business from 1979 to 1985 and moved to Princeton   University   in   1985, where he was named the Howard Harrison  and  Gabrielle  Snyder Beck   Professor   of   Economics and  Public  Affairs  and  where  he served as chair of the Economics Department. Professor Bernanke is currently a Distinguished Fellow in Residence with the Economic Studies  Program  at  the  Brookings  Institution.Professor  Bernanke  was  sworn  in  on  February  1,  2006,  as chair  and  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Governors  of  the  Federal Reserve  System;  his  second  term  expired  January  31,  2014. Professor  Bernanke  also  served  as  chair  of  the  Federal  Open Market  Committee,  the  Feds  principal  monetary  policymaking body.  Professor  Bernanke  was  also  chair  of  the  Presidents Council of Economic Advisers from June 2005 to January 2006.Professor  Bernankes  intermediate  textbook,  with  Andrew Abel  and  Dean  Croushore, Macroeconomics,  Ninth  Edition (Addison-Wesley,  2017),  is  a  best  seller  in  its  field.  He  has authored  numerous  scholarly  publications  in  macroeconomics, macroeconomic  history,  and  finance.  He  has  done  significant research  on  the  causes  of  the  Great  Depression,  the  role  of financial  markets  and  institutions  in  the  business  cycle,  and measurement of the effects of monetary policy on the economy.Professor Bernanke has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a  Sloan  Fellowship,  and  he  is  a  Fellow  of  the  Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served  as  the  director  of  the  Monetary  Economics  Program  of the  National  Bureau  of  Economic  Research  (NBER)  and  as  a member of the NBERs Business Cycle Dating Committee. From 2001  to  2004  he  served  as  editor  of  the American Economic Review, and as president of the American Economic Association in  2019.  Professor  Bernankes  work  with  civic  and  professional groups  includes  having  served  two  terms  as  a  member  of  the Montgomery  Township  (New  Jersey)  Board  of Education.

Frank, Robert
Robert H. Frank received his M.A. in statistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971, and his Ph.D. in economics in 1972, also from U.C. Berkeley. He is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1972 and where he currently holds a joint appointment in the department of economics and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. He has published on a variety of subjects, including price and wage discrimination, public utility pricing, the measurement of unemployment spell lengths, and the distributional consequences of direct foreign investment. For the past several years, his research has focused on rivalry and cooperation in economic and social behaviour.