Modern Principles: Microeconomics (International Edition) - Brossura

Tyler Cowen; Alex Tabarrok

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ISBN 10: 1319384021 ISBN 13: 9781319384029

Casa editrice: Worth Publishers, 2020

Riassunto

Modern Principles means modern content and modern delivery and Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok deliver with a knack for revealing the ‘invisible hand’ of economics at work and a unique combination of vivid writing, up-to-date relevant examples and unparalleled online resources, perfect for your principles of economics course. 
Modern Principles of Microeconomics places an emphasis on the power of incentives which underscores how economics helps us understand why we do what we do (in other words, the decisions we make in the face of incentives in the real world). These are brought to life via examples including a discussion of housing prices and the elasticity of supply, the declining labor force participation rate of young men, the platform economics of free goods like Facebook and Twitter, monetary policy in a pandemic and the politics and economics of trade in the Trump era. 
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Informazioni sull?autore

Tyler Cowen is Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Director of the Mercatus Center. He is published widely in economics journals, including the American Economic Review and Journal of Political Economy. With Alex Tabarrok he co-writes the Marginal Revolution blog, often ranked as the #1 economics blog. He is also the author of numerous books on economics and he writes regularly for the popular press on economics, including for Bloomberg Opinion, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, and The Wilson Quarterly. Alex Tabarrok is Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Tabarrok is co-author with Tyler Cowen of the popular economics blog, Marginal Revolution. His research looks at bounty hunters, judicial incentives and elections, crime control, patent reform, methods to increase the supply of human organs for transplant, and the regulation of pharmaceuticals. He is the editor of numerous books, his papers have appeared in numerous academic journals and his popular articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other magazines and newspapers.

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Modern Principles means modern content and modern delivery and Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok deliver with a knack for revealing the ‘invisible hand’ of economics at work and a unique combination of vivid writing, up-to-date relevant examples and unparalleled online resources, perfect for your principles of economics course. Modern Principles of Macroeconomics places an emphasis on the power of incentives which underscores how economics helps us understand why we do what we do (in other words, the decisions we make in the face of incentives in the real world). These are brought to life via examples including a discussion of housing prices and the elasticity of supply, the declining labor force participation rate of young men, the platform economics of free goods like Facebook and Twitter, monetary policy in a pandemic and the politics and economics of trade in the Trump era. Modern Principles of Macroeconomics is supported by Achieve, which includes: - 170+ Marginal Revolution University videos to support you along the learning pathway - Animated pre-lecture tutorials will help you to understand core economic topics before going to class - Access to an eBook for easy reading and searching - LearningCurve adaptive quizzing offers practice questions to check your understanding and provides feedback to ensure you have grasped the concepts - Step-by-Step graphs and Discovering Data activities allow you to work step-by-step through scenarios so that you can see economic principles in action

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Worth Publishers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1319384021
• ISBN 13: 9781319384029
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 5
• Numero di pagine: 608
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile