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'Introduce the latest thinking of today's economists on important microeconomic and macroeconomic phenomena while equipping your students with a solid global understanding of basic economic principles with Boyes/Melvin's popular PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS, 9E. This latest edition's reader-friendly writing style, carefully integrated learning features, and emphasis on global economics help to clearly illustrate the connections between key economic principles and today's actual business practices. This edition's updates, timely revisions and memorable examples ensure you are teaching using the latest economic statistics and developments. Revised microeconomics materials emphasize the fundamentals and practical application of current events, while new macroeconomics coverage highlights the recent financial crisis and its global implications. Your students gain in-depth understanding of globalization one of today's most significant business issues and its impact on economic growth and poverty. Cutting-edge teaching and learning technology and a full range of supplements, including the world-leading Aplia&trade homework system, help you create a complete economics program that clarifies and emphasizes the importance of economic concepts for career and business success throughout the world.<br/><br/><br/><br/>'Part I: INTRODUCTION TO THE PRICE SYSTEM. 1. Economics: The World Around You. Appendix: Working with Graphs. 2. Choice, Opportunity Costs, and Specialization. 3. Markets, Demand and Supply, and the Price System. 4. The Market System and the Private and Public Sectors. Part II: MACROECONOMIC BASICS. 5. National Income Accounting. 6. An Introduction to the Foreign Exchange Market and the Balance of Payments. 7. Unemployment and Inflation. 8. Macroeconomic Equilibrium: Aggregate Demand and Supply. 9. Aggregate Expenditures. Appendix: An Algebraic Model of Aggregate Expenditures. 10. Income and Expenditures Equilibrium. Appendix: An Algebraic Model of Income and Expenditures Equilibrium. Part III: MACROECONOMIC POLICY. 11. Fiscal Policy. Appendix: An Algebraic Examination of the Balanced-Budget Change in Fiscal Policy. 12. Money and Banking. 13. Monetary Policy. 14. Macroeconomic Policy: Tradeoffs, Expectations, Credibility, and Sources of Business Cycles. 15. Macroeconomic Viewpoints: New Keynesian, Monetarist, and New Classical. 16. Economic Growth. 17. Development Economics. 18. Globalization. Part IV: PRODUCT MARKET BASICS. 19. Elasticity: Demand and Supply. 20. Consumer Choice. Appendix: Indifference Analysis. 21. Supply: The Costs of Doing Business. Appendix: The Mechanics of Going from Production to Costs. Part V: PRODUCT MARKETS. 22. Profit Maximization. 23. Perfect Competition. 24. Monopoly. 25. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly. 26. Antitrust, Regulation, and Public Finance. 27. Market Failures, Government Failures, and Rent Seeking. Part VI: RESOURCE MARKETS. 28. Resource Markets. 29. The Labor Market. 30. Capital Markets. 31. The Land Market and Natural Resources. Part VII: CURRENT ISSUES INVOLVING THE PUBLIC SECTOR AND THE MARKET ECONOMY. 32. Aging, Social Security, and Health Care. 33. Income Distribution, Poverty, and Government Policy. Part VIII: ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FINANCE. 34. World Trade Equilibrium. 35. International Trade Restrictions. 36. Exchange Rates and Financial Links Between Countries.<br/> |