دانلود کتاب Economics for Today

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Half Title Page
Title Page
Imprint Page
Brief contents
Contents
Guide to the text
Guide to the online resources
Preface
Acknowledgements
About the authors
Part 1: Introduction to economics
Chapter 1: Thinking like an economist
1 The problem of scarcity
2 Macroeconomics and microeconomics
3 The methodology of economics
4 Hazards of the economic way of thinking
5 Why do economists disagree?
6 Practical applications of economics
Appendix to Chapter 1: Applying graphs to economics
1 Direct and inverse relationships
2 Slopes of lines in a graph
3 Introducing a third variable to the graph
4 The importance of index numbers
Chapter 2: Production possibilities and opportunity cost
1 The three fundamental economic questions
2 Opportunity cost
3 Marginal analysis
4 The production possibilities frontier
5 Shifting the production possibilities frontier
6 Present investment and the future production possibilities frontier
7 Trade and production possibility frontier
Chapter 3: Market demand and supply
1 The law of demand
2 Non-price determinants of demand
3 The law of supply
4 Non-price determinants of supply
5 Market supply and demand analysis
Chapter 4: Markets in action
1 Changes in market equilibrium
2 Can the laws of supply and demand be repealed?
3 Market failure
Part 2: Microeconomic fundamentals
Chapter 5: Elasticity of demand and supply
1 Price elasticity of demand
2 Price elasticity of demand variations along a straight-line demand curve
3 Determinants of price elasticity of demand
4 Other measures of demand elasticity
5 Price elasticity of supply
6 Price elasticity of demand and the impact of taxation
Chapter 6: Production costs
1 Costs and profit
2 Short-run production theory
3 Short-run cost concepts
4 Marginal cost relationships
5 Long-run production costs
Part 3: Market Structures
Chapter 7: Perfect competition
1 Market structures
2 Perfect competition
3 Short-run profit maximisation for a competitive firm
4 Short-run loss minimisation for a competitive firm
5 Short-run supply curves under perfect competition
6 Short-run and long-run equilibrium for a competitive firm
7 Three types of long-run supply curve under perfect competition
Chapter 8: Monopoly
1 The monopoly market structure
2 Price and output decision for a monopolist
3 Price discrimination
4 Comparing monopoly and perfect competition: the case against and for monopoly
Chapter 9: Monopolistic competition and oligopoly
1 The monopolistic competition market structure
2 The monopolistically competitive firm as a price maker
3 Price and output decisions for a monopolistically competitive firm
4 Comparing monopolistic competition and perfect competition
5 The oligopoly market structure
6 Price and output decisions for an oligopolist
Chapter 10: Microeconomic policy issues: Climate change and behavioural economics
1 Climate change
2 Behavioural economics
3 Behaviours violating the rational choice model
Part 4: Macroeconomic Fundamentals
Chapter 11: Measuring the size of the economy
1 The concept of gross domestic product: the basics
2 Measuring GDP
3 GDP shortcomings as a measure of economic welfare
4 Changing nominal GDP to real GDP
5 Relationship between national saving and investment in an open economy
Chapter 12: Business cycles and economic growth
1 The business cycle rollercoaster
2 Business cycle indicators
3 Total spending and the business cycle
4 Economic growth in the longer term
5 The goals of macroeconomic policy
Chapter 13: Inflation and unemployment
1 Meaning and measurement of inflation
2 Consequences of inflation
3 The meaning and measurement of unemployment
4 Types of unemployment
5 Inflation and unemployment: is there a relationship?
Part 5: Macroeconomic theory and policy
Chapter 14: A simple model of the macro economy
1 Economic determinants of the four key expenditure components of aggregate demand
2 The aggregate demand–aggregate supply model
3 Changes in the AD–AS macroeconomic equilibrium
Chapter 15: The monetary and financial system
1 Some monetary fundamentals
2 The determination of interest rates
3 A modern financial system
Chapter 16: Macroeconomic policy I: monetary policy
1 What is monetary policy and how is it thought to affect the economy?
2 Modern monetary policy implementation: the case of Australia
3 An alternative view of the monetary policy transmission mechanism
4 The appropriate role for monetary policy: the rules versus discretion debate
Chapter 17: Macroeconomic policy II: fiscal policy
1 Discretionary demand-side fiscal policy
2 Supply-side fiscal policy
3 The macroeconomic significance of the federal budget
4 Implications of the budget outcome for government debt levels
Part 6: Further aspects of international economics
Chapter 18: International trade and finance
1 Why nations benefit from trade
2 Free trade, fair trade and protectionism
3 The balance of payments
4 The exchange rate and its economic impact
Chapter 19: Macroeconomic policy issues: reflecting on economic and debt crises
1 The unfolding of a worldwide financial maelstrom
2 The economic consequences of the GFEC
3 Macroeconomic policy responses to the crisis
4 The European sovereign debt – and banking – crisis
5 The COVID-19 pandemic economic impacts and policy responses in Australia
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