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Economics : A Tool for Critically Understanding Society
ISBN: 9780201704167 | 0201704161
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Pub. Date: 1/1/2002
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The Sixth Edition of Economics: A Tool for Critically Understanding Society develops fundamental economic analysis tools in clear, simple, and understandable terms. This one-semester text introduces students to economic theories and ideas and how those theories and ideas have changed over time. The text's overarching goal is to encourage critical thinking and to challenge students to examine preconceived ideas and beliefs. It exposes various and contending schools of economic thought and successfully gives students perspective on the historical changes in the material conditions, economic institutions, and social relations of human society. By providing students with an opportunity to use economic concepts in solving real-world problems, Economics: A Tool for Critically Understanding Society prepares a foundation for future and continued learning.
| Foreword | p. xviii |
| Preface to the Instructor | p. xxiii |
| Preface to the Student | p. xxvi |
| Economics as a Tool for Critical Thinking in a Changing Global Economy | p. 1 |
| Economics as a Social Science | p. 3 |
| Exploring the Emerging Global Economy | p. 17 |
| Thinking Critically: Economic Paradigms and Globalization: What Are Sweatshops For? | p. 42 |
| Economic History and the Develo... MORE | p. 49 |
| The Evolution of Economic Systems | p. 50 |
| Property, Adam Smith, and the Division of Labor | p. 74 |
| The Rise and Fall of Laissez-Faire | p. 86 |
| The Marxian Critique of Capitalism | p. 100 |
| Thinking Critically: Technological Innovation, the New Economy, and the Future | p. 114 |
| Microeconomics | p. 121 |
| Scarcity: "You Can't Always Get What You Want" | p. 123 |
| The Theory of Markets | p. 136 |
| Perfect Competition and Efficiency | p. 166 |
| Noncompetitive Markets and Inefficiency | p. 198 |
| Resource Markets and the Distribution of Income | p. 226 |
| Corporations and Labor Unions | p. 252 |
| The Economic Role of Government | p. 276 |
| Thinking Critically: Explorations in Microeconomics-Affirmative Action | p. 308 |
| Macroeconomics | p. 319 |
| Macroeconomics: Issues and Problems | p. 321 |
| Macroeconomic Theory: Classical and Keynesian Models | p. 346 |
| Fiscal Policy: Government Spending and Taxation | p. 384 |
| Financial Markets, Money, and Monetary Policy | p. 408 |
| Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply | p. 448 |
| Unemployment, Inflation, and Stabilization Policy in a Global Economy | p. 469 |
| Thinking Critically: Spend Me to the Moon | p. 483 |
| International Economics and Finance | p. 491 |
| International Trade and Interdependence | p. 493 |
| International Finance | p. 520 |
| The Economics of Developing Nations | p. 548 |
| Economic Systems in Transition | p. 577 |
| Thinking Critically: Globalization in the Twenty-first Century | p. 601 |
| Glossary | p. 611 |
| Name Index | p. 625 |
| Subject Index | p. 627 |
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