Brue, Stanley H.

Essentials of economics / Stanley H. Brue. - 2nd - New York : McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2010. - xxvi, 500 p. : ill.: 26 cm.

Includes bibliographic references and index

Part one: Introduction -- Limits, alternatives, and choices -- The market system and the circular flow -- Part two: Price, quantity, and efficiency -- Demand, supply, and market equilibrium -- Elasticity of demand and supply -- Public goods and externalities -- Part three: Product markets -- Business and their costs -- Pure competition -- Pure monopoly -- Monopolistic competition and oligopoly -- Part four: Resource markets -- Wage determination -- Income inequality and poverty -- Part five: GDP, growth, and instability -- GDP and economic growth -- Business cycles, unemployment, and inflation -- Aggregate demand and aggregate supply -- Fiscal policy, deficits, and debt -- Part seven: International economics -- International trade and exchange rates.

A textbook that presents a treatment of micro and macro economics for the one-semester course with many examples.


English

978-0-07-017266-1


Economics

330 B83e 2010