Survey of Economics | Libby Rittenberg and Timothy Tregarthen

- 1Economics: The Study of Choice
- 2Confronting Scarcity: Choices in Production
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  - 2.1Start Up: An Attempt to Produce Safer Air Travel
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  - 2.2Factors of Production
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  - 2.3The Production Possibilities Curve
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  - 2.4Applications of the Production Possibilities Model
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  - 2.5Review and Practice
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- 3Demand and Supply
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  - 3.1Start Up: Crazy for Coffee
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  - 3.2Demand
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  - 3.3Supply
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  - 3.4Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium
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  - 3.5Government Intervention in Market Prices: Price Floors and Price Cielings
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  - 3.6Review and Practice
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- 4Elasticity: A Measure of Response
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  - 4.1Start Up: Raise Fares? Lower Fares? What’s a Public Transit Manager To Do?
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  - 4.2The Price Elasticity of Demand
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  - 4.3Responsiveness of Demand to Other Factors
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  - 4.4Price Elasticity of Supply
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  - 4.5Review and Practice
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- 5Markets, Maximizers, and Efficiency
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  - 5.1Start Up: A Drive in the Country
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  - 5.2The Logic of Maximizing Behavior
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  - 5.3Maximizing in the Marketplace
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  - 5.4Market Failure
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  - 5.5Review And Practice
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- 6Production, Cost, and Market Models
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  - 6.1Start Up: Street Cleaning Around the World
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  - 6.2Production Choices and Costs: The Short Run
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  - 6.3Production Choices and Costs: The Long Run
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  - 6.4An Overview of Models of Market Organization
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  - 6.5Review and Practice
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- 7Competitive Markets for Goods and Services
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  - 7.1Start Up: Life on the Farm
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  - 7.2Perfect Competition: A Model
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  - 7.3Output Determination in the Short Run
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  - 7.4Perfect Competition in the Long Run
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  - 7.5Review and Practice
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- 8Monopoly and Its Regulation
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  - 8.1Start Up: Surrounded by Monopolies
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  - 8.2The Nature of Monopoly
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  - 8.3The Monopoly Model
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  - 8.4Comparing Monopoly to Other Forms of Market Organization
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  - 8.5Antitrust Laws and Their Interpretation
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  - 8.6Review and Practice
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- 9Wages and Employment in Perfect Competition
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  - 9.1Start Up: College Pays
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  - 9.2The Demand for Labor
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  - 9.3The Supply of Labor
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  - 9.4Labor Markets at Work
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  - 9.5Review and Practice
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- 10Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination
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  - 10.1Start Up: Occupy Wall Street and the World
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  - 10.2Income Inequality
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  - 10.3The Economics of Poverty
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  - 10.4The Economics of Discrimination
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  - 10.5Review and Practice
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- 11Macroeconomics: The Big Picture
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  - 11.1Start Up: Economy Limps Along
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  - 11.2Growth of Real GDP and Business Cycles
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  - 11.3Price-Level Changes
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  - 11.4Unemployment
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  - 11.5Review and Practice
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- 12Measuring Total Output and Income
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  - 12.1Start Up: The Lockup
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  - 12.2Measuring Total Output
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  - 12.3Measuring Total Income
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  - 12.4GDP and Economic Well-Being
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  - 12.5Review and Practice
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- 13Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
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  - 13.1Start Up: The Great Warning
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  - 13.2Aggregate Demand
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  - 13.3Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply: The Long Run and the Short Run
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  - 13.4Recessionary and Inflationary Gaps and Long-Run Macroeconomic Equilibrium
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  - 13.5Review and Practice
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- 14Economic Growth
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  - 14.1Start Up: How Important Is Economic Growth?
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  - 14.2The Significance of Economic Growth
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  - 14.3Growth and the Long-Run Aggregate Supply Curve
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  - 14.4Determinants of Economic Growth
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  - 14.5Review and Practice
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- 15The Nature and Creation of Money
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  - 15.1Start Up: How Many Macks Does It Cost?
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  - 15.2What Is Money?
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  - 15.3The Banking System and Money Creation
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  - 15.4The Federal Reserve System
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  - 15.5Review and Practice
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- 16Financial Markets, the Fed, and Monetary Policy
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  - 16.1Start Up: The Fed's Extraordinary Challenges in 2008
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  - 16.2The Bond and Foreign Exchange Markets
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  - 16.3Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium in the Money Market
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  - 16.4Monetary Policy in the United States
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  - 16.5Problems and Controversies of Monetary Policy
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- 17Government and Fiscal Policy
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  - 17.1Start Up: A Massive Stimulus
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  - 17.2Government and the Economy
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  - 17.3The Use of Fiscal Policy to Stabilize the Economy
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  - 17.4Issues in Fiscal Policy
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- 18A Brief History of Macroeconomic Thought and Policy
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  - 18.1Start Up: Three Revolutions in Macroeconomic Thought
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  - 18.2The Great Depression and Keynesian Economics
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  - 18.3Keynesian Economics in the 1960s and 1970s
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  - 18.4Macroeconomics for the 21st Century
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  - 18.5Review and Practice
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- AAppendix A: Graphs in Economics
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  - A.1How to Construct and Interpret Graphs
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  - A.2Nonlinear Relationships and Graphs without Numbers
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  - A.3Using Graphs and Charts to Show Values of Variables
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