Synopses & Reviews
A concise text focusing on core concepts, Microeconomics for Today, 3e includes a wealth of use pedagogical features to provide opportunities for critical thinking, interactive reading, and built-in self-assessment.
About the Author
Dr. Irvin B. Tucker brings more than thirty years of experience teaching introductory at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to this text. Dr. Tucker earned his B.S. in economics at N.C. State University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of South Carolina. Dr. Tucker is a longtime member of the National Council on Economic Education and former Director of the Center for Economic Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Recognized for his ability to relate basic economic principles to global issues and public policy, Dr. Tucker?s work has received national recognition throughout his career. He is the recipient of the Meritorious Leavy Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education, the Federation of Independent Business Award for Postsecondary Educator of the Year in Entrepreneurship and Economic Education, and the Freedom Foundation?s George Washington Medal for Excellence in Economic Education. In addition, he has published numerous professional journal articles on topics including industrial organization, entrepreneurship, and sports economics. Dr. Tucker is also the author of the highly successful SURVEY OF ECONOMICS, a text for the one-semester survey course, published by Cengage Learning.
Table of Contents
PART I: INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS 1. Introducing the Economic Way of Thinking. Appendix to Chapter 1: Applying Graphs to Economics 2. Production Possibilities, Opportunity Cost, and Economic Growth 3. Market Demand and Supply 4. Markets in Action. Appendix to Chapter 4: Applying Supply and Demand Analysis to Health Care PART II: MICROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS 5. Price Elasticity of Demand and Supply 6. Consumer Choice Theory 7. Production Costs PART III: MARKET STRUCTURES 8. Perfect Competition 9. Monopoly 10. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly 11. Labor Markets PART IV: MICROECONOMIC POLICY ISSUES 12. Income Distribution, Poverty, and Discrimination 13. Antitrust and Regulation 14. Environmental Economics PART V: THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY 15. International Trade and Finance 16. Economies in Transition 17. Growth and the Less-Developed Countries