Synopses & Reviews
Building on the tremendous success of their best-selling Principles of Economics text, Brue, McConnell, and Flynn have revised their one-semester text to provide a fresh alternative. This 18-chapter textbook utilizes clear and careful language along with pedagogy and topic discussion suited to the needs of one-semester course.. Brue/McConnell/Flynn is a patient, substantive treatment of micro and macro economics for the one-semester course with many up-to-date, motivating examples.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: Introduction 1 Limits, Alternatives, and Choices Appendix: Graphs and Their Meaning 2 The Market System and the Circular Flow PART TWO: Price, Quantity, and Efficiency 3 Demand, Supply, and Market Equilibrium 4 Elasticity of Demand and Supply 5 Public Goods and Externalities PART THREE: Product Markets 6 Businesses and Their Costs 7 Pure Competition 8 Pure Monopoly 9 Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly PART FOUR: Resource Markets 10 Wage Determination 11 Income Inequality and Poverty PART FIVE: GDP, Growth and Instability 12 GDP and Economic Growth 13 Business Cycles, Unemployment, and Inflation 14 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply 15 Fiscal Policy, Deficits, and Debt PART SIX: Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy 16 Money and Banking 17 Monetary Policy PART SEVEN: International Economics 18 International Trade and Exchange Rates