Synopses & Reviews
Steve Slavins lively and comprehensive student-friendly step-by-step approach, coupled with its low price and built-in Study Guide are very attractive to adopters. Instructors and students like the authors humorous anecdotes, direct language, and easy conversational style. The text encourages active learning.
With the help of over 15 reviewers, this new edition is not only more streamlined (33 chapters, instead of 35) and up-to-date, it also introduces global perspectives to many discussions early on and throughout the text. The author discusses the impact of technology and e-business on the recent economic expansion. A new interior design reflects the contemporary flavor that this traditional text possesses.
Synopsis
Steve Slavin's lively and comprehensive Economics student-friendly, step-by-step approach, coupled with its low price and built-in Workbook/Study Guide is very attractive to adopters. Instructors and students like the author's humorous anecdotes, direct language, and easy conversational style. The text encourages active rather than passive reading.
Table of Contents
1 A BRIEF ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 2 RESOURCE UTILIZATION 3 SUPPLY AND DEMAND 4 THE MIXED ECONOMY 5 THE HOUSEHOLD-CONSUMPTION SECTOR 6 THE BUSINESS-INVESTMENT SECTOR 7 THE GOVERNMENT SECTOR 8 THE EXPORT-IMPORT SECTOR 9 GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT 10 ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS, UNEMPLOYMENT, AND INFLATION 11 CLASSICAL AND KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS 12 FISCAL POLICY AND THE NATIONAL DEBT 13 MONEY AND BANKING 14 THE FEDERAL RESERVE AND MONETARY POLICY 15 TWENTIETH CENTURY ECONOMIC POLICY 16 ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PRODUCTIVITY 17 DEMAND, SUPPLY, AND EQUILIBRIUM 18 THE ELASTICITIES OF DEMAND AND SUPPLY 19 THE THEORY OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR 20 COST 21 PROFIT, LOSS, AND PERFECT COMPETITION 22 MONOPOLY 23 MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION 24 OLIGOPOLY 25 CORPORATE MERGERS AND ANTITRUST 26 DEMAND IN THE FACTOR MARKET 27 LABOR UNIONS 28 LABOR MARKETS AND WAGE RATES 29 RENT, INTEREST, AND PROFIT 30 INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND POVERTY 31 INTERNATIONAL TRADE 32 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE