Principles of Economics, Brief Edition - Rilegato

Frank, Robert; Bernanke, Ben

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ISBN 10: 007337587X ISBN 13: 9780073375878

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2008

Riassunto

In recent years, innovative texts in mathematics, science, foreign languages, and other fields have achieved dramatic pedagogical gains by abandoning the traditional encyclopedic approach in favor of attempting to teach a short list of core principles in depth. Two well-respected writers and researchers, Bob Frank and Ben Bernanke, have shown that the less-is-more approach affords similar gains in introductory economics. The authors introduce a coherent short list of core principles and reinforce them by illustrating and applying each in numerous contexts. Students are periodically asked to apply these principles and to answer related questions and exercises.

The BRIEF editions were developed for instructors who appreciate the Frank & Bernanke approach, but desire a more manageable amount of content and slightly less rigor. In the brief editions, the authors made careful choices of material to eliminate and condense, in order to produce of more concise covereage.

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L'autore:

Robert H. Frank received his B.S. in mathematics from Georgia Tech in 1966, then taught math and science for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Nepal. He received his M.A. in statistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971, and his Ph.D. in economics in 1972, also from U.C. Berkeley. He is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1972 and where he currently holds a joint appointment in the department of economics and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. During leaves of absence from Cornell, he served as chief economist for the Civil Aeronautics Board from 1978 to 1980 and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1992-93. He has published on a variety of subjects, including price and wage discrimination, public utility pricing, the measurement of unemployment spell lengths, and the distributional consequences of direct foreign investment. For the past several years, his research has focused on rivalry and cooperation in economic and social behavior. His books on these themes include Choosing the Right Pond: Human Behavior and the Quest for Status (Oxford University Press, 1985) and Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions (W.W. Norton, 1988). He and Philip Cook are co-authors of The Winner-Take-All Society (The Free Press, 1995) , which received a Critic’s Choice Award and appeared on both the New York Times Notable Books list and Business Week Ten Best list for 1995. His most recent general interest publication is Luxury Fever (The Free Press, 1999). Professor Frank’s books have been translated into eight languages. He has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Professorship (1987 – 1990), a Kenan Enterprise Award (1993), and a Merrill Scholars Program Outstanding Educator Citation (1991).

Contenuti:

Part I Introduction

Ch 1 Thinking Like an Economist

Ch 2 Comparative Advantage

Ch 3 Supply and Demand

Part II Competition and the Invisible Hand

Ch 4 Elasticity

Ch 5 Demand

Ch 6 Perfectly Competitive Supply

Ch 7 Efficiency, Exchange, and the Invisible Hand in Action

Part III Market Imperfections

Ch 8 Monopoly, Oligopoly, and Monopolistic Competition

Ch 9 Games and Strategic Behavior

Ch 10 Externalities and Property Rights

Part IV Economics of Public Policy

Ch 11 Using Economics to Make Better Policy Choices

Part V Macroeconomics: Data and Issues

Ch 12 Spending, Income, and GDP

Ch 13 Inflation and the Price Level

Ch 14 Wages and Unemployment

Part VI The Economy in the Long Run

Ch 15 Economic Growth

Ch 16 Saving, Capital Formation, and Financial Markets

Ch 17 The Financial System, Money, and Prices

Part VII The Economy in the Short Run

Ch 18 Short-Term Economic Fluctuations

Ch 19 Spending and Output in the Short Run

Ch 20 Stabilizing the Economy: The Role of the Federal Reserve

Ch 21 Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, and Macroeconomic Policy

Part VIII The International Economy

Ch 22 Exchange Rates, International Trade, and Capital Flows

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 007337587X
• ISBN 13: 9780073375878
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 682