Last edition Elsevier An intuitive and grounded approach to economics. Get students to think like economists using the latest policy and data while incorporating global issues. Economics, 13th Edition builds on the foundation of the previous edition and retains a thorough and careful presentation of the principles of economics. The text emphasizes real-world applications, the development of critical-thinking skills, diagrams renowned for their pedagogy and clarity, and path-breaking technology. As a hallmark features in the chapter openings and endings encourage students to think critically about a news article relating to the issue, demonstrating how thinking like an economist can bring a clearer perspective to and deeper understanding of today’s events.
Last Edition
ISBN 13: 9781292255460
Imprint: Pearson
Language: English
Authors: Michael Parkin
Pub Date: 09/2018
Pages: 864
Illus: Illustrated
Weight: 1,600.000 grams
Size: h 210 X 280 mm
Product Type: Softcover
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- • New - News-Based Problems and Applications include 200 topics like: Shrinking brick-and-mortar retail and expanding online shopping; time spent by gamers playing video games; Facebook and Google in mobile ads market; Toyota's "Customer First" principle; and the effects of the Greek debt crisis on the country’s budget. ·
- • Economics in Action provides data and information that links models to real-world economic activity. Some of the issues covered in these boxes include the best affordable choice of recorded music, movies, and DVDs; the cost of selling a pair of shoes; how Apple doesn’t make the iPhone; opposing trends in air pollution and carbon concentration; structural unemployment in Michigan; how loanable funds fuel a home price bubble; and the size of the fiscal stimulus multipliers.
- • New - "Chapter 1: Economists in the Economy," describes the types of jobs available to economics majors, their earnings compared with majors in other related areas, and the critical thinking, analytical, math, writing, and oral communication skills needed for a successful career in economics.
- • New - Chapter 2 features the rust-belt economy - its causes and cures, which describes and illustrates the changing patterns of production as an economy expands, and explains how technical change and economic growth first shrinks the share of agriculture as manufacturing expands and later shrinks the share of manufacturing as services expand.
- Michael Parkin is the Irwin N. Griswold Professor of Politics. His research focuses on the relationship between political candidates, the media, and voters in the United States. He is particularly interested in how candidates use ‘‘new media’’ (e.g., the internet, entertainment television) and the effect this has on voters. His research has appeared in American Political Science Review , the Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and the Social Science Computer Review. He teaches courses on political psychology, media and mass political behavior, campaigns and elections, quantitative research methods, and American politics.
- PART I: INTRODUCTION
- 1. What is Economics? 2. The Economic Problem
- PART II: HOW MARKETS WORK
- 3. Demand and Supply 4. Elasticity 5. Efficiency And Equity 6. Government Actions in Markets 7. Global markets in Action
- PART III: HOUSEHOLDS’ CHOICES
- 8. Utility and Demand 9. Possibilities, Preferences, and Choices
- PART IV: FIRMS AND MARKETS
- 10. Organizing Production 11. Output and Costs 12. Perfect Competition 13. Monopoly 14. Monopolistic Competition 15. Oligopoly
- PART V: MARKET FAILURE AND GOVERNMENT
- 16. Public Choices, Public Goods, and Healthcare 17. Externalities
- PART VI: FACTOR MARKETS, INEQUALITY, AND UNCERTAINTY
- 18. Markets for Factors of Production 19. Economic Inequality 20. Uncertainty and Information
- PART VII: MONITORING MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
- 21. Monitoring the Value of Production: GDP 22. Monitoring Jobs and Inflation
- PART VIII: MACROECONOMIC TRENDS
- 23. Economic Growth 24. Finance, Saving, and Investment 25. Money, the Price Level, and Inflation 26. The Exchange Rate and the Balance of Payments
- PART IX: MACROECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS
- 27. Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand 28. Expenditure Multipliers 29. The Business Cycle, Inflation, and Deflation
- PART X: MACROECONOMIC POLICY
- 30. Fiscal Policy 31. Monetary Policy
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