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Economics, 19/e

Paul A. Samuelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William D. Nordhaus, Yale University

ISBN: 0073511293
Copyright year: 2010

Preface

PART ONE: BASIC CONCEPTS

Chapter 1	The Central Concepts of Economics
Appendix 1	How to Read Graphs
Chapter 2	The Modern Mixed Economy
Chapter 3	Basic Elements of Supply and Demand

PART TWO: MICROECONOMICS: SUPPLY, DEMAND, AND PRODUCT MARKETS

Chapter 4	Supply and Demand: Elasticity and Applications
Chapter 5	Demand and Consumer Behavior
Appendix 5	Geometrical Analysis of Consumer Equilibrium
Chapter 6	Production and Business Organization
Chapter 7	Analysis of Costs
Appendix 7	Production, Cost Theory, and Decisions of the Firm
Chapter 8	Analysis of Perfectly Competitive Markets
Chapter 9	Imperfect Competition and Monopoly
Chapter 10	Competition among the Few
Chapter 11	Economics of Uncertainty

PART THREE: FACTOR MARKETS: LABOR, LAND, AND CAPITAL

Chapter 12	How Markets Determine Incomes
Chapter 13	The Labor Market
Chapter 14	Land, Natural Resources, and the Environment
Chapter 15	Capital, Interest, and Profits

PART FOUR: APPLICATIONS OF ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES

Chapter 16	Government Taxation and Expenditure
Chapter 17	Efficiency vs. Equality: The Big Tradeoff
Chapter 18	International Trade

PART FIVE: MACROECONOMICS: ECONOMIC GROWTH AND BUSINESS CYCLES

Chapter 19	Overview of Macroeconomics
Appendix 19	Macroeconomic Data for the United States
Chapter 20	Measuring Economic Activity
Chapter 21	Consumption and Investment
Chapter 22	Business Cycles and Aggregate Demand
Chapter 23	Money and the Financial System
Chapter 24	Monetary Policy and the Economy

PART SIX: GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

Chapter 25	Economic Growth
Chapter 26	The Challenge of Economic Development
Chapter 27	Exchange Rates and the International Financial System
Chapter 28	Open-Economy Macroeconomics

PART SEVEN: UNEMPLOYMENT, INFLATION, AND ECONOMIC POLICY

Chapter 29	Unemployment and the Foundations of Aggregate Supply
Chapter 30	Inflation
Chapter 31	Frontiers of Macroeconomics

Glossary of Terms
Index

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