TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parkin,Michael
TI  - Economics / 
SN  - 9780321604972 (pbk.)
AV  - HB171.5   .P313 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Boston, Mass., London
PB  - Pearson Addison-Wesley
KW  - Economics
N1  - "Global edition"--Cover; Previous ed.: 2008; Includes index;  What is economics? -- The economic problem -- How markets work -- Demand and supply -- Elasticity -- Efficiency and equity -- Government actions in markets -- Global markets in action -- Households' choices -- Utility and demand -- Possibilities, preferences, and choices -- Firms and markets -- Organizing production -- Output and costs -- Perfect competition -- Monopoly -- Monopolistic competition -- Oligopoly -- Market failure and government -- Public choices and public goods -- Economics of the environment -- Factor markets, inequality, and uncertainty -- Markets for factors of production -- Economic inequality -- Uncertainty and information -- Monitoring macroeconomic performance -- Measuring GDP and economic growth -- Monitoring jobs and inflation -- Macroeconomic trends -- Economic growth -- Finance, saving, and investment -- Money, the price level, and inflation -- The exchange rate and the balance of payments -- Macroeconomic fluctuations -- Aggregate supply and aggregate demand -- Expenditure multipliers: the keynesian model -- U.S. inflation, unemployment, and business cycle -- Macroeconomic policy -- Fiscal policy -- Monetary policy
ER  -