TY - BOOK AU - Brue, Stanley H. TI - Essentials of economics SN - 978-0-07-017266-1 AV - 330 B83e 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill Irwin KW - Economics N1 - 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 N2 - A textbook that presents a treatment of micro and macro economics for the one-semester course with many examples. ER -