Understanding economics
ch. 1. Why study economics? -- ch. 2. Definition, character, and misuse of economics -- ch. 3. How some basic things are determined by an economic system -- ch. 4. Caeteris paribus and prediction -- ch. 5. Production possibilities frontier -- ch. 6. Wants, resources, technology, productive units --...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Armonk, NY u.a.
M.E. Sharpe
1999
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | ch. 1. Why study economics? -- ch. 2. Definition, character, and misuse of economics -- ch. 3. How some basic things are determined by an economic system -- ch. 4. Caeteris paribus and prediction -- ch. 5. Production possibilities frontier -- ch. 6. Wants, resources, technology, productive units -- ch. 7. Economic principle -- ch. 8. Dehumanized utility function and rationality -- ch. 9. Human ends -- ch. 10. Individual and social decision-making -- ch. 11. Price determination -- ch. 12. Elasticities of demand and supply -- ch. 13. Market prices and social values -- ch. 14. Perfect competition norm -- ch. 15. Invisible hand -- ch. 16. Influence and safety of finance -- ch. 17. Firm and profit maximization -- ch. 18. Oligopoly, stability, and public policy -- ch. 19. Expectations, uncertainties, and probabilities -- ch. 20. Externalities and efficiency -- ch. 21. Responsibility to stockholders and others -- ch. 22. Functional income distribution theory -- ch. 23. Minimum wage law -- 24. Marginal productivity as an implicit ethical norm -- ch. 25. More on the distribution of income and wealth -- ch. 26. Equity-efficiency trade-off -- ch. 27. Aggregate demand and supply -- ch. 28. That Keynesian revolution controversy again -- ch. 29. Welfare state -- ch. 30. Inflation and stagflation -- ch. 31. Rules versus discretion in macroeconomic policy -- ch. 32. International economic relations -- ch. 33. International monetary system -- ch. 34. Economic roles of government -- ch. 35. Comparative economic systems -- ch. 36. Economic development -- ch. 37. Growth and sustainable economics -- ch. 38. What picture of social problems? -- ch. 39. Relation to social philosophy -- ch. 40. Humanistic economics is needed. ch. 1.Why study economics? -- ch. 2.Definition, character, and misuse of economics -- ch. 3.How some basic things are determined by an economic system -- ch. 4.Caeteris paribus and prediction -- ch. 5.Production possibilities frontier -- ch. 6.Wants, resources, technology, productive units -- ch. 7.Economic principle -- ch. 8.Dehumanized utility function and rationality -- ch. 9.Human ends -- ch. 10.Individual and social decision-making -- ch. 11.Price determination -- ch. 12.Elasticities of demand and supply -- ch. 13.Market prices and social values -- ch. 14.Perfect competition norm -- ch. 15.Invisible hand -- ch. 16.Influence and safety of finance -- ch. 17.Firm and profit maximization -- ch. 18.Oligopoly, stability, and public policy -- ch. 19.Expectations, uncertainties, and probabilities -- ch. 20.Externalities and efficiency -- ch. 21.Responsibility to stockholders and others -- ch. 22.Functional income distribution theory -- ch. 23.Minimum wage law -- 24.Marginal productivity as an implicit ethical norm -- ch. 25.More on the distribution of income and wealth -- ch. 26.Equity-efficiency trade-off -- ch. 27.Aggregate demand and supply -- ch. 28.That Keynesian revolution controversy again -- ch. 29.Welfare state -- ch. 30.Inflation and stagflation -- ch. 31.Rules versus discretion in macroeconomic policy -- ch. 32.International economic relations -- ch. 33.International monetary system -- ch. 34.Economic roles of government -- ch. 35.Comparative economic systems -- ch. 36.Economic development -- ch. 37.Growth and sustainable economics -- ch. 38.What picture of social problems? -- ch. 39.Relation to social philosophy -- ch. 40.Humanistic economics is needed. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-182) and index |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 188 p graph. Darst 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0765604841 0-7656-0484-1 0765604833 0-7656-0483-3 |