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Find the latest on economics The economy is always changing but some things are eternal! Economics For Dummies , Third Edition , gives you everything you need to understand our rapidly evolving economy as well as the basics that never change. What’s the best way to fight poverty? How can governments boost employment and wage growth? What can be done to protect endangered species and the environment? This book answers all of those questions in simple language while tracking with a traditional introductory economics class.
Following in the steps of the first and second editions, the thoroughly updated Third Edition is a useful study guide and supplement to any high school or college level economics class. Discover the ins and outs of irrational consumers with a new chapter on behavioral economics Understand and apply the most powerful tool in economics: the model of supply and demand Get help recognizing the causes of recessions and the weapons that governments and central banks use to fight back Understand the origins and aftermath of financial crises Economics For Dummies has supplied hundreds of thousands of students with an approachable reference book while also providing an informational outlet for anyone curious about how businesses, consumers, and governments interact to produce and distribute all the goods and services that we enjoy today.
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- Höfundur: Sean Masaki Flynn
- Útgáfa:3
- Útgáfudagur: 2018-04-16
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- Format:ePub
- ISBN 13: 9781119476276
- Print ISBN: 9781119476382
- ISBN 10: 1119476275
Efnisyfirlit
- Cover
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1: Economics: The Science of How People Deal with Scarcity
- Chapter 1: What Economics Is and Why You Should Care
- Considering a Little Economic History
- Framing Economics as the Science of Scarcity
- Sending Microeconomics and Macroeconomics to Separate Corners
- Understanding How Economists Use Models and Graphs
- Chapter 2: Cookies or Ice Cream? Exploring Consumer Choices
- Describing Human Behavior with a Choice Model
- Pursuing Personal Happiness
- You Can’t Have Everything: Examining Limitations
- Making Your Choice: Deciding What and How Much You Want
- Exploring Violations and Limitations of the Economist’s Choice Model
- Chapter 3: Producing Stuff to Maximize Happiness
- Figuring Out What’s Possible to Produce
- Deciding What to Produce
- Promoting Technology and Innovation
- Chapter 1: What Economics Is and Why You Should Care
- Chapter 4: Supply and Demand Made Easy
- Deconstructing Demand
- Sorting Out Supply
- Bringing Supply and Demand Together
- Price Controls: Keeping Prices Away from Market Equilibrium
- Chapter 5: Introducing Homo Economicus, the Utility-Maximizing Consumer
- Choosing by Ranking
- Getting Less from More: Diminishing Marginal Utility
- Choosing Among Many Options When Facing a Limited Budget
- Deriving Demand Curves from Diminishing Marginal Utility
- Chapter 6: The Core of Capitalism: The Profit-Maximizing Firm
- A Firm’s Goal: Maximizing Profits
- Facing Competition
- Analyzing a Firm’s Cost Structure
- Comparing Marginal Revenues with Marginal Costs
- Pulling the Plug: When Producing Nothing Is Your Best Bet
- Chapter 7: Why Economists Love Free Markets and Competition
- Ensuring That Benefits Exceed Costs: Competitive Free Markets
- When Free Markets Lose Their Freedom: Dealing with Deadweight Losses
- Hallmarks of Perfect Competition: Zero Profits and Lowest Possible Costs
- Chapter 8: Monopolies: Bad Behavior without Competition
- Examining Profit-Maximizing Monopolies
- Comparing Monopolies with Competitive Firms
- Considering Good Monopolies
- Regulating Monopolies
- Chapter 9: Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition: Middle Grounds
- Oligopolies: Looking at the Allure of Joining Forces
- Understanding Incentives to Cheat the Cartel
- Regulating Oligopolies
- Studying a Hybrid: Monopolistic Competition
- Chapter 10: Property Rights and Wrongs
- Allowing Markets to Reach Socially Optimal Outcomes
- Examining Externalities: The Costs and Benefits Others Feel from Your Actions
- Tragedy of the Commons: Overexploiting Commonly Owned Resources
- Chapter 11: Asymmetric Information and Public Goods
- Facing Up to Asymmetric Information
- Providing Public Goods
- Chapter 12: Health Economics and Healthcare Finance
- Defining Health Economics and Healthcare Finance
- Noting the Limits of Health Insurance
- Comparing Healthcare Internationally
- Inflated Demand: Suffering from “Free” and Reduced-Cost Healthcare
- Investigating Singapore’s Secrets
- Chapter 13: Behavioral Economics: Investigating Irrationality
- Explaining the Need for Behavioral Economics
- Complementing Neo-Classical Economics with Behavioral Economics
- Examining our Amazing, Efficient, and Error-Prone Brains
- Surveying Prospect Theory
- Countering Myopia and Time Inconsistency
- Gauging Fairness and Self-Interest
- Chapter 14: How Economists Measure the Macroeconomy
- Getting a Grip on the GDP (and Its Parts)
- Diving In to the GDP Equation
- Making Sense of International Trade and Its Effect on the Economy
- Chapter 15: Inflation Frustration: Why More Money Isn’t Always Good
- Buying an Inflation: When Too Much Money Is a Bad Thing
- Measuring Inflation
- Pricing the Future: Nominal and Real Interest Rates
- Chapter 16: Understanding Why Recessions Happen
- Introducing the Business Cycle
- Striving for Full-Employment Output
- Returning to Y*: The Natural Result of Price Adjustments
- Responding to Economic Shocks: Short-Run and Long-Run Effects
- Heading toward Recession: Getting Stuck with Sticky Prices
- Achieving Equilibrium with Sticky Prices: The Keynesian Model
- Chapter 17: Fighting Recessions with Monetary and Fiscal Policy
- Stimulating Demand to End Recessions
- Generating Inflation: The Risk of Too Much Stimulation
- Figuring Out Fiscal Policy
- Dissecting Monetary Policy
- Chapter 18: Grasping Origins and Effects of Financial Crises
- Understanding How Debt-Driven Bubbles Develop
- Seeing the Bubble Burst
- After the Crisis: Looking at Recovery
- Chapter 19: Ten Seductive Economic Fallacies
- The Lump of Labor
- The World Is Facing Overpopulation
- Sequence Indicates Causation
- Protectionism Is the Best Solution to Foreign Competition
- The Fallacy of Composition
- If It’s Worth Doing, Do It 100 Percent
- Free Markets Are Dangerously Unstable
- Low Foreign Wages Mean That Rich Countries Can’t Compete
- Tax Rates Don’t Affect Work Effort
- Forgetting Unintended Consequences
- Chapter 20: Ten Economic Ideas to Hold Dear
- Self-Interest Can Improve Society
- Free Markets Require Regulation
- Economic Growth Relies on Innovation
- Freedom and Democracy Make Us Richer
- Education Raises Living Standards
- Intellectual Property Boosts Innovation
- Weak Property Rights Cause All Environmental Problems
- International Trade Is a Good Thing
- Government Can Provide Public Goods
- Preventing Inflation Is Easy
- Chapter 21: Ten (Or So) Famous Economists
- Adam Smith
- David Ricardo
- Karl Marx
- Alfred Marshall
- John Maynard Keynes
- Kenneth Arrow and Gerard Debreu
- Milton Friedman
- Paul Samuelson
- Robert Solow
- Gary Becker
- Robert Lucas
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