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| Preface | p. xix |
| An Introduction to Economics | |
| Economics: The Science of Scarcity | |
| What Economics Is About | p. 1 |
| A Definition of Economics | p. 2 |
| Goods and Bads | p. 2 |
| Resources | p. 2 |
| Scarcity and a Definition of Economics | p. 2 |
| Key Concepts in Economics | p. 5 |
| Opportunity Cost | p. 5 |
| Benefits and... MORE | p. 6 |
| Decisions Made at the Margin | p. 8 |
| Efficiency | p. 8 |
| Unintended Effects | p. 10 |
| Exchange | p. 11 |
| Economic Categories | p. 12 |
| Positive and Normative Economics | p. 12 |
| Microeconomics and Macroeconomics | p. 13 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 13 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 14 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 15 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 16 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 16 |
| Working with Diagrams | p. 17 |
| Two-Variable Diagrams | p. 17 |
| Slope of a Line | p. 18 |
| Slope of a Line Is Constant | p. 18 |
| Slope of a Curve | p. 20 |
| The 45[Degree] Line | p. 20 |
| Pie Charts | p. 21 |
| Bar Graphs | p. 21 |
| Line Graphs | p. 21 |
| Appendix Summary | p. 24 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 24 |
| Should You Major in Economics? | p. 25 |
| Five Myths about Economics and an Economics Major | p. 26 |
| What Awaits You as an Economics Major? | p. 28 |
| What Do Economists Do? | p. 29 |
| Places to Find More Information | p. 30 |
| Concluding Remarks | p. 30 |
| Economic Activities: Producing and Trading | p. 31 |
| The Production Possibilities Frontier | p. 32 |
| The Straight-Line PPF: Constant Opportunity Costs | p. 32 |
| The Bowed-Outward (Concave-Downward) PPF: Increasing Opportunity Costs | p. 33 |
| Law of Increasing Opportunity Costs | p. 34 |
| Economic Concepts within a PPF Framework | p. 35 |
| Exchange or Trade | p. 38 |
| Periods Relevant to Trade | p. 39 |
| Trade and the Terms of Trade | p. 40 |
| Costs of Trades | p. 40 |
| Trades and Third-Party Effects | p. 42 |
| Production, Trade, and Specialization | p. 42 |
| Producing and Trading | p. 42 |
| Profit and a Lower Cost of Living | p. 45 |
| A Benevolent and All-Knowing Dictator Versus the Invisible Hand | p. 45 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 46 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 47 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 47 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 48 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 48 |
| Working with Numbers and Graphs | p. 49 |
| Supply and Demand: Theory | p. 50 |
| A Note about Theories | p. 51 |
| What Is Demand? | p. 51 |
| The Law of Demand | p. 52 |
| What Does Ceteris Paribus Mean? | p. 52 |
| Four Ways to Represent the Law of Demand | p. 52 |
| Two Prices: Absolute and Relative | p. 53 |
| Why Does Quantity Demanded Go Down as Price Goes Up? | p. 53 |
| Individual Demand Curve and Market Demand Curve | p. 54 |
| A Change in Quantity Demanded Versus a Change in Demand | p. 55 |
| What Factors Cause the Demand Curve to Shift? | p. 57 |
| Movement Factors and Shift Factors | p. 59 |
| Supply | p. 60 |
| The Law of Supply | p. 61 |
| Why Most Supply Curves Are Upward Sloping | p. 61 |
| Changes in Supply Mean Shifts in Supply Curves | p. 62 |
| What Factors Cause the Supply Curve to Shift? | p. 63 |
| A Change in Supply Versus a Change in Quantity Supplied | p. 64 |
| The Market: Putting Supply and Demand Together | p. 65 |
| Supply and Demand at Work at an Auction | p. 65 |
| The Language of Supply and Demand: A Few Important Terms | p. 66 |
| Moving to Equilibrium: What Happens to Price When There Is a Surplus or a Shortage? | p. 67 |
| Speed of Moving to Equilibrium | p. 68 |
| Moving to Equilibrium: Maximum and Minimum Prices | p. 68 |
| Equilibrium in Terms of Consumers' and Producers' Surplus | p. 70 |
| What Can Change Equilibrium Price and Quantity? | p. 71 |
| Price Controls | p. 73 |
| Price Ceiling: Definition and Effects | p. 73 |
| Do Buyers Prefer Lower Prices to Higher Prices? | p. 76 |
| Price Floor: Definition and Effects | p. 76 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 77 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 78 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 78 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 79 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 80 |
| Working with Numbers and Graphs | p. 80 |
| Supply and Demand: Practice | p. 82 |
| Why Do Colleges Use GPAs, ACTs, and SATs for Purposes of Admission? | p. 83 |
| What Will Happen to the Price of Marijuana If the Purchase and Sale of Marijuana Are Legalized? | p. 84 |
| Where Did You Get That Music? | p. 85 |
| Television Shows During the Olympics | p. 86 |
| Who Feeds Cleveland? | p. 86 |
| The Minimum Wage Law | p. 87 |
| Loud Talking at a Restaurant | p. 88 |
| Price Ceiling in the Kidney Market | p. 89 |
| Healthcare and the Right to Sue Your HMO | p. 91 |
| Being Late to Class | p. 92 |
| If Gold Prices Are the Same Everywhere, Then Why Aren't House Prices? | p. 93 |
| Do You Pay for Good Weather? | p. 94 |
| Paying Ail Professors the Same Salary | p. 94 |
| Price Floors and Winners and Losers | p. 96 |
| College Superathletes | p. 97 |
| Supply and Demand on a Freeway | p. 99 |
| What Does Price Have to Do with Getting to Class on Time? | p. 101 |
| The Space Within Space | p. 102 |
| 10 A.M. Classes in College | p. 102 |
| Who Pays the Tax? | p. 103 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 105 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 105 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 106 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 107 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 108 |
| Working with Numbers and Graphs | p. 109 |
| Macroeconomics | |
| Macroeconomic Fundamentals | |
| Macroeconomic Measurements, Part I: Prices and Unemployment | p. 111 |
| How to Approach the Study of Macroeconomics | p. 112 |
| Macroeconomic Problems | p. 112 |
| Macroeconomic Theories | p. 112 |
| Macroeconomic Policies | p. 113 |
| Different Views of How the Economy Works | p. 113 |
| Three Macroeconomic Organizational Categories | p. 113 |
| Macroeconomic Measures | p. 115 |
| Measuring Prices Using the CPI | p. 115 |
| Inflation and the CPI | p. 117 |
| The Substitution Bias in Fixed-Weighted Measures | p. 118 |
| GDP Implicit Price Deflator | p. 119 |
| Converting Dollars from One Year to Another | p. 119 |
| Measuring Unemployment | p. 120 |
| Who Are the Unemployed? | p. 121 |
| The Unemployment and Employment Rates | p. 122 |
| Reasons for Unemployment | p. 123 |
| Discouraged Workers | p. 123 |
| Types of Unemployment | p. 123 |
| What Is Full Employment? | p. 125 |
| Cyclical Unemployment | p. 125 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 127 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 127 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 128 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 129 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 129 |
| Working with Numbers and Graphs | p. 129 |
| Macroeconomic Measurements, Part II: GDP and Real GDP | p. 131 |
| Gross Domestic Product | p. 132 |
| Three Ways to Compute GDP | p. 132 |
| What GDP Omits | p. 133 |
| GDP Is Not Adjusted for Bads Generated in the Production of Goods | p. 134 |
| Per Capita GDP | p. 134 |
| Is Either GDP or Per Capita GDP a Measure of Happiness or Well-Being? | p. 134 |
| The Expenditure Approach to Computing GDP for a Real-World Economy | p. 136 |
| Expenditures in a Real-World Economy | p. 136 |
| Computing GDP Using the Expenditure Approach | p. 137 |
| The Income Approach to Computing GDP for a Real-World Economy | p. 138 |
| Computing National Income | p. 141 |
| From National Income to GDP: Making Some Adjustments | p. 141 |
| Other National Income Accounting Measurements | p. 143 |
| Net Domestic Product | p. 143 |
| Personal Income | p. 143 |
| Disposable Income | p. 144 |
| Real GDP | p. 144 |
| Why We Need Real GDP | p. 144 |
| Computing Real GDP | p. 145 |
| The General Equation for Real GDP | p. 145 |
| What Does It Mean If Real GDP Is Higher in One Year Than in Another Year? | p. 145 |
| Real GDP, Economic Growth, and Business Cycles | p. 146 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 148 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 148 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 149 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 150 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 150 |
| Working with Numbers and Graphs | p. 151 |
| Macroeconomic Stability, Instability, and Fiscal Policy | |
| Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply | p. 152 |
| The Two Sides to an Economy | p. 153 |
| Aggregate Demand | p. 153 |
| Why Does the Aggregate Demand Curve Slope Downward? | p. 153 |
| A Change in the Quantity Demanded of Real GDP Versus a Change in Aggregate Demand | p. 156 |
| Changes in Aggregate Demand: Shifts in the AD Curve | p. 156 |
| How Spending Components Affect Aggregate Demand | p. 157 |
| Factors That Can Change C, I, G, and NX (EX - IM) and Therefore Can Change AD | p. 158 |
| Can a Change in the Money Supply Change Aggregate Demand? | p. 161 |
| Short-Run Aggregate Supply | p. 162 |
| Short-Run Aggregate Supply Curve: What It Is and Why It Is Upward Sloping | p. 162 |
| What Puts the "Short Run" in SRAS? | p. 163 |
| Changes in Short-Run Aggregate Supply: Shifts in the SRAS Curve | p. 163 |
| Putting AD and SRAS Together: Short-Run Equilibrium | p. 165 |
| How Short-Run Equilibrium in the Economy Is Achieved | p. 166 |
| Thinking in Terms of Short-Run Equilibrium Changes in the Economy | p. 167 |
| An Important Exhibit | p. 169 |
| Long-Run Aggregate Supply | p. 170 |
| Going from the Short Run to the Long Run | p. 170 |
| Short-Run Equilibrium, Long-Run Equilibrium, and Disequilibrium | p. 172 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 173 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 173 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 174 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 175 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 175 |
| Working with Numbers and Graphs | p. 176 |
| The Self-Regulating Economy | p. 177 |
| The Classical View | p. 178 |
| Classical Economists and Say's Law | p. 178 |
| Classical Economists and Interest Rate Flexibility | p. 178 |
| Classical Economists on Prices and Wages | p. 180 |
| Three States of the Economy | p. 181 |
| Real GDP and Natural Real GDP: Three Possibilities | p. 181 |
| The Labor Market and the Three States of the Economy | p. 182 |
| One Nagging Question: How Can the Unemployment Rate Be Less Than the Natural Unemployment Rate? | p. 184 |
| The Self-Regulating Economy | p. 185 |
| What Happens If the Economy Is in a Recessionary Gap? | p. 185 |
| What Happens If the Economy Is in an Inflationary Gap? | p. 186 |
| The Self-Regulating Economy: A Recap | p. 188 |
| Policy Implication of Believing the Economy Is Self-Regulating | p. 189 |
| Changes in a Self-Regulating Economy: Short Run and Long Run | p. 189 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 191 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 191 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 192 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 193 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 193 |
| Working with Numbers and Graphs | p. 194 |
| Economic Instability: A Critique of the Self-Regulating Economy | p. 195 |
| Questioning the Classical Position | p. 196 |
| Keynes's Criticism of Say's Law in a Money Economy | p. 196 |
| Keynes on Wage Rates | p. 198 |
| New Keynesians and Wage Rates | p. 198 |
| Keynes on Prices | p. 199 |
| Is It a Question of the Time It Takes for Wages and Prices to Adjust? | p. 200 |
| The Simple Keynesian Model | p. 201 |
| Assumptions | p. 201 |
| The Consumption Function | p. 201 |
| Consumption and Saving | p. 203 |
| The Multiplier | p. 203 |
| The Multiplier and Reality | p. 205 |
| The Simple Keynesian Model in the AD-AS Framework | p. 206 |
| Shifts in the Aggregate Demand Curve | p. 206 |
| The Keynesian Aggregate Supply Curve | p. 206 |
| The Economy in a Recessionary Gap | p. 208 |
| Government's Role in the Economy | p. 209 |
| The Theme of the Simple Keynesian Model | p. 209 |
| The Simple Keynesian Model in the TE-TP Framework | p. 210 |
| Deriving a Total Expenditures (TE) Curve | p. 210 |
| What Will Shift the TE Curve? | p. 211 |
| Comparing Total Expenditures (TE) and Total Production (TP) | p. 212 |
| Moving from Disequilibrium to Equilibrium | p. 212 |
| The Graphical Representation of the Three States of the Economy in the TE-TP Framework | p. 213 |
| The Economy in a Recessionary Gap and the Role of Government | p. 214 |
| The Theme of the Simple Keynesian Model | p. 216 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 216 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 217 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 218 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 219 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 219 |
| Working with Numbers and Graphs | p. 220 |
| The Federal Budget and Fiscal Policy | p. 221 |
| The Federal Budget | p. 222 |
| Government Expenditures | p. 222 |
| Government Tax Revenues | p. 223 |
| Budget Deficit, Surplus, or Balance | p. 225 |
| Structural and Cyclical Deficits | p. 226 |
| The Public Debt | p. 226 |
| Fiscal Policy | p. 226 |
| Some Relevant Fiscal Policy Terms | p. 227 |
| Two Important Notes | p. 227 |
| Demand-Side Fiscal Policy | p. 227 |
| Shifting the Aggregate Demand Curve | p. 227 |
| Fiscal Policy: A Keynesian Perspective | p. 228 |
| Crowding Out: Questioning Expansionary Fiscal Policy | p. 229 |
| Lags and Fiscal Policy | p. 232 |
| Crowding Out, Lags, and the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy | p. 233 |
| Supply-Side Fiscal Policy | p. 233 |
| Marginal Tax Rates and Aggregate Supply | p. 233 |
| The Laffer Curve: Tax Rates and Tax Revenues | p. 234 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 237 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 238 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 238 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 239 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 240 |
| Working with Numbers and Graphs | p. 240 |
| Money, the Economy, and Monetary Policy | |
| Money and Banking | p. 241 |
| Money: What Is It and How Did It Come to Be? | p. 242 |
| Money: A Definition | p. 242 |
| Three Functions of Money | p. 242 |
| From a Barter to a Money Economy: The Origins of Money | p. 243 |
| Money in a Prisoner of War Camp | p. 244 |
| Money, Leisure, and Output | p. 244 |
| What Gives Money Its Value? | p. 245 |
| Defining the Money Supply | p. 246 |
| M1 | p. 246 |
| M2 | p. 246 |
| Where Do Credit Cards Fit In? | p. 247 |
| How Banking Developed | p. 249 |
| The Early Bankers | p. 249 |
| The Federal Reserve System | p. 249 |
| The Money Creation Process | p. 249 |
| The Bank's Reserves and More | p. 250 |
| The Banking System and the Money Expansion Process | p. 251 |
| Why Maximum? Answer: No Cash Leakages and Zero Excess Reserves | p. 254 |
| Who Created What? | p. 254 |
| It Works in Reverse: The "Money Destruction" Process | p. 255 |
| We Change Our Example | p. 256 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 257 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 257 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 258 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 258 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 259 |
| Working with Numbers and Graphs | p. 259 |
| The Federal Reserve System | p. 260 |
| The Structure and Functions of the Fed | p. 261 |
| The Structure of the Fed | p. 261 |
| The Functions of the Fed | p. 262 |
| Fed Tools for Controlling the Money Supply | p. 264 |
| Open Market Operations | p. 264 |
| The Required Reserve Ratio | p. 267 |
| The Discount Rate | p. 267 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 269 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 270 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 270 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 270 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 271 |
| Working with Numbers and Graphs | p. 271 |
| Money and the Economy | p. 272 |
| Money and the Price Level | p. 273 |
| The Equation of Exchange | p. 273 |
| From the Equation of Exchange to the Simple Quantity Theory of Money | p. 274 |
| The Simple Quantity Theory of Money in an AD-AS Framework | p. 275 |
| Dropping the Assumptions That V and Q Are Constant | p. 277 |
| Monetarism | p. 278 |
| Monetarist Views | p. 278 |
| Monetarism and AD-AS | p. 279 |
| The Monetarist View of the Economy | p. 281 |
| Inflation | p. 281 |
| One-Shot Inflation | p. 282 |
| Continued Inflation | p. 284 |
| Money and Interest Rates | p. 287 |
| What Economic Variables Are Affected by a Change in the Money Supply? | p. 287 |
| The Money Supply, the Loanable Funds Market, and Interest Rates | p. 288 |
| So What Happens to the Interest Rate as the Money Supply Changes? | p. 292 |
| The Nominal and Real Interest Rates | p. 292 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 293 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 294 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 295 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 296 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 296 |
| Working with Numbers and Graphs | p. 297 |
| Monetary Policy | p. 298 |
| The Money Market | p. 299 |
| The Demand for Money | p. 299 |
| The Supply of Money | p. 300 |
| Equilibrium in the Money Market | p. 300 |
| Transmission Mechanisms | p. 300 |
| The Keynesian Transmission Mechanism: Indirect | p. 301 |
| The Keynesian Mechanism May Get Blocked | p. 301 |
| The Monetarist Transmission Mechanism: Direct | p. 305 |
| Monetary Policy and the Problem of Inflationary and Recessionary Gaps | p. 306 |
| Monetary Policy and the Activist-Nonactivist Debate | p. 308 |
| The Case for Activist (or Discretionary) Monetary Policy | p. 309 |
| The Case for Nonactivist (or Rules-Based) Monetary Policy | p. 309 |
| Nonactivist Monetary Proposals | p. 312 |
| A Constant-Money-Growth-Rate Rule | p. 312 |
| A Predetermined-Money-Growth-Rate Rule | p. 312 |
| The Fed and the Taylor Rule | p. 313 |
| Inflation Targeting | p. 314 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 315 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 316 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 316 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 317 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 317 |
| Working with Numbers and Graphs | p. 318 |
| Expectations and Growth | |
| Expectations Theory and the Economy | p. 319 |
| Phillips Curve Analysis | p. 320 |
| The Phillips Curve | p. 320 |
| Samuelson and Solow: The Phillips Curve Is Americanized | p. 320 |
| The Controversy Begins: Are There Really Two Phillips Curves? | p. 321 |
| Things Aren't Always as We Thought | p. 321 |
| Friedman and the Natural Rate Theory | p. 321 |
| How Do People Form Their Expectations? | p. 324 |
| Rational Expectations and New Classical Theory | p. 326 |
| Rational Expectations | p. 326 |
| Do People Anticipate Policy? | p. 326 |
| New Classical Theory: The Effects of Unanticipated and Anticipated Policy | p. 327 |
| Policy Ineffectiveness Proposition (PIP) | p. 328 |
| Rational Expectations and Incorrectly Anticipated Policy | p. 329 |
| How to Fall into a Recession Without Really Trying | p. 330 |
| New Keynesians and Rational Expectations | p. 332 |
| Looking at Things from the Supply Side: Real Business Cycle Theorists | p. 333 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 335 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 335 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 336 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 337 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 337 |
| Working with Numbers and Graphs | p. 338 |
| Economic Growth | p. 339 |
| A Few Basics About Economic Growth | p. 340 |
| Do Economic Growth Rates Matter? | p. 340 |
| Growth Rates in Selected Countries | p. 341 |
| Two Types of Economic Growth | p. 342 |
| Economic Growth and the Price Level | p. 343 |
| What Causes Economic Growth? | p. 345 |
| Natural Resources | p. 345 |
| Labor | p. 345 |
| Capital | p. 346 |
| Technological Advances | p. 347 |
| Free Trade as Technology | p. 347 |
| Property Rights Structure | p. 347 |
| Economic Freedom | p. 347 |
| Policies to Promote Economic Growth | p. 349 |
| Economic Growth and Special Interest Groups | p. 350 |
| New Growth Theory | p. 351 |
| What Was Wrong with the Old Theory? Or What's New with New Growth Theory? | p. 351 |
| Discovery, Ideas, and Institutions | p. 353 |
| Expanding Our Horizons | p. 353 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 354 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 355 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 355 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 356 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 357 |
| Working with Numbers and Graphs | p. 357 |
| The Global Economy | |
| International Economics and Globalization | |
| International Trade | p. 359 |
| International Trade Theory | p. 360 |
| How Do Countries Know What to Trade? | p. 360 |
| How Do Countries Know When They Have a Comparative Advantage? | p. 363 |
| Trade Restrictions | p. 365 |
| The Distributional Effects of International Trade | p. 365 |
| Consumers' and Producers' Surplus | p. 365 |
| The Benefits and Costs of Trade Restrictions | p. 366 |
| If Free Trade Results in Net Gain, Why Do Nations Sometimes Restrict Trade? | p. 369 |
| The World Trade Organization (WTO) | p. 373 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 374 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 374 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 375 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 376 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 376 |
| Working with Numbers and Graphs | p. 377 |
| International Finance | p. 378 |
| The Balance of Payments | p. 379 |
| Current Account | p. 380 |
| Capital Account | p. 383 |
| Official Reserve Account | p. 383 |
| Statistical Discrepancy | p. 383 |
| What the Balance of Payments Equals | p. 384 |
| The Foreign Exchange Market | p. 384 |
| The Demand for Goods | p. 385 |
| The Demand for and Supply of Currencies | p. 385 |
| Flexible Exchange Rates | p. 387 |
| The Equilibrium Exchange Rate | p. 387 |
| Changes in the Equilibrium Exchange Rate | p. 388 |
| Factors That Affect the Equilibrium Exchange Rate | p. 388 |
| Fixed Exchange Rates | p. 391 |
| Fixed Exchange Rates and Overvalued/Undervalued Currency | p. 392 |
| What Is So Bad About an Overvalued Dollar? | p. 393 |
| Government Involvement in a Fixed Exchange Rate System | p. 394 |
| Options Under a Fixed Exchange Rate System | p. 394 |
| The Gold Standard | p. 396 |
| Fixed Exchange Rates Versus Flexible Exchange Rates | p. 398 |
| Promoting International Trade | p. 398 |
| Optimal Currency Areas | p. 399 |
| The Current International Monetary System | p. 400 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 402 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 403 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 403 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 404 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 405 |
| Working with Numbers and Graphs | p. 405 |
| Globalization | p. 406 |
| What Is Globalization? | p. 407 |
| A Smaller World | p. 407 |
| A World Economy | p. 407 |
| Two Ways to "See" Globalization | p. 408 |
| No Barriers | p. 408 |
| A Union of States | p. 408 |
| Globalization Facts | p. 408 |
| International Trade | p. 409 |
| Foreign Exchange Trading | p. 409 |
| Foreign Direct Investment | p. 409 |
| Personal Investments | p. 411 |
| The World Trade Organization | p. 411 |
| Business Practices | p. 411 |
| Movement Toward Globalization | p. 411 |
| The End of the Cold War | p. 411 |
| Advancing Technology | p. 412 |
| Policy Changes | p. 412 |
| Benefits and Costs of Globalization | p. 414 |
| The Benefits | p. 414 |
| The Costs | p. 416 |
| The Continuing Globalization Debate | p. 417 |
| More or Less Globalization: A Tug of War? | p. 418 |
| Less Globalization | p. 418 |
| More Globalization | p. 419 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 420 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 420 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 421 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 421 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 422 |
| Practical Economics | |
| Financial Matters | |
| Stocks, Bonds, Futures, and Options | p. 423 |
| Financial Markets | p. 24 |
| Stocks | p. 424 |
| Where Are Stocks Bought and Sold? | p. 424 |
| The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) | p. 426 |
| How the Stock Market Works | p. 427 |
| Why Do People Buy Stock? | p. 429 |
| How to Buy and Sell Stock | p. 430 |
| Buying Stocks or Buying the Market | p. 430 |
| How to Read the Stock Market Page | p. 432 |
| Bonds | p. 434 |
| The Components of a Bond | p. 434 |
| Bond Ratings | p. 434 |
| Bond Prices and Yields (or Interest Rates) | p. 435 |
| Types of Bonds | p. 435 |
| How to Read the Bond Market Page | p. 436 |
| Risk and Return | p. 437 |
| Futures and Options | p. 438 |
| Futures | p. 438 |
| Options | p. 440 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 441 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 442 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 443 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 443 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 443 |
| Working with Numbers and Graphs | p. 444 |
| Web Chapters | |
| Web Chapters | |
| Agriculture: Farmers' Problems, Government Policies, and Unintended Effects | p. 741 |
| Agriculture: The Issues | p. 742 |
| A Few Facts | p. 742 |
| Agriculture and Income Inelasticity | p. 743 |
| Agriculture and Price Inelasticity | p. 743 |
| Price Variability and Futures Contracts | p. 744 |
| Can Bad Weather Be Good for Farmers? | p. 745 |
| Agricultural Policies | p. 746 |
| Price Supports | p. 746 |
| Restricting Supply | p. 746 |
| Target Prices and Deficiency Payments | p. 748 |
| Production Flexibility Contract Payments, (Fixed) Direct Payments, and Countercyclical Payments | p. 749 |
| Nonrecourse Commodity Loans | p. 749 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 750 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 751 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 751 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 751 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 752 |
| Working with Numbers and Graphs | p. 753 |
| International Impacts on the Economy | p. 753 |
| International Factors and Aggregate Demand | p. 754 |
| Net Exports | p. 754 |
| The J-Curve | p. 755 |
| International Factors and Aggregate Supply | p. 756 |
| Foreign Input Prices | p. 756 |
| Why Do Foreign Input Prices Change? | p. 757 |
| Factors That Affect Both Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply | p. 757 |
| The Exchange Rate | p. 757 |
| What Role Do Interest Rates Play? | p. 758 |
| Deficits: International Effects and Domestic Feedback | p. 759 |
| The Budget Deficit and Expansionary Fiscal Policy | p. 759 |
| The Budget Deficit and Contractionary Fiscal Policy | p. 760 |
| The Effects of Monetary Policy | p. 761 |
| A Reader Asks | p. 763 |
| Analyzing the Scene | p. 764 |
| Chapter Summary | p. 764 |
| Key Terms and Concepts | p. 765 |
| Questions and Problems | p. 765 |
| Working with Numbers and Graphs | p. 766 |
| Self-Test Appendix | p. 445 |
| Glossary | p. 459 |
| Index | p. 467 |
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