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Principles of Economics v3.0

By Libby Rittenberg and Timothy Tregarthen

Published: August 2017
Discipline: Economics Textbooks
ISBN (Digital): 978-1-4533-8487-9

Other Available Titles

Principles of Macroeconomics v3.0

Principles of Microeconomics v3.0

Survey of Economics v2.0

Brief Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Economics: The Study of Choice
Chapter 2: Confronting Scarcity: Choices in Production
Chapter 3: Demand and Supply
Chapter 4: Applications of Demand and Supply
Chapter 5: Elasticity: A Measure of Response
Chapter 6: Markets, Maximizers, and Efficiency
Chapter 7: The Analysis of Consumer Choice
Chapter 8: Production and Cost
Chapter 9: Competitive Markets for Goods and Services
Chapter 10: Monopoly
Chapter 11: The World of Imperfect Competition
Chapter 12: Wages and Employment in Perfect Competition
Chapter 13: Interest Rates and the Markets for Capital and Natural Resources
Chapter 14: Imperfectly Competitive Markets for Factors of Production
Chapter 15: Public Finance and Public Choice
Chapter 16: Antitrust Policy and Business Regulation
Chapter 17: International Trade
Chapter 18: The Economics of the Environment
Chapter 19: Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination
Chapter 20: Macroeconomics: The Big Picture
Chapter 21: Measuring Total Output and Income
Chapter 22: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
Chapter 23: Economic Growth
Chapter 24: The Nature and Creation of Money
Chapter 25: Financial Markets and the Economy
Chapter 26: Monetary Policy and the Fed
Chapter 27: Government and Fiscal Policy
Chapter 28: Consumption and the Aggregate Expenditures Model
Chapter 29: Investment and Economic Activity
Chapter 30: Net Exports and International Finance
Chapter 31: Inflation and Unemployment
Chapter 32: A Brief History of Macroeconomic Thought and Policy
Appendix A: Graphs in Economics
Appendix B: Extensions of the Aggregate Expenditures Model

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