內容簡介
Improve YOUR world. Dean Karlan and Jonathan Morduch’s Economics 3e is built around the central concept that economics is a powerful and positive tool that students can use right now to improve their world. Economics uses examples and issues that resonate with students’ experience to draw them in and frame ideas to help develop their economic intuition.
1. Using a balanced approach, students are able to sharpen their own understanding of topics by focusing on the data and evidence behind the effects they see. Students are equipped to understand and respond to real-life situations thought their new economic lens and challenged to decided how they will improve their world.
2. The third edition delivers core economic concepts along with exciting new ideas in economic though and strives to keep students engaged by confronting issues that are important in the world
3. This text combines a familiar curriculum with material from new research and applied areas such as finance, behavioral economics, and the political economy. Students and faculty will find content that breaks down barriers between what takes place in the classroom and what happens in our nation and our world, with applications that are driven by empirical evidence, data, and research.
4. Karlan and Morduch show students that economics is a tool to improve one'sown life and promote better public and business policies in the world. At the same time, this third edition challenges students to reach their own conclusions about how they will improve their world.
作者介紹
作者簡介
Dean Karlan
現職：Northwestern University and President and Founder of IPA
Jonathan Morduch
現職：New York University
目錄
PART I: THE POWER OF ECONOMICS
Ch 1 Economics and Life
Ch 2 Specialization and Exchange
PART II: SUPPLY AND DEMAND
Ch 3 Markets
Ch 4 Elasticity
Ch 5 Efficiency
Ch 6 Government Intervention
PART III: INDIVIDUAL DECISIONS
Ch 7 Consumer Behavior
Ch 8 Behavioral Economics: A Closer Look at Decision Making
Ch 9 Game Theory and Strategic Thinking
Ch10 Information
Ch11 Time and Uncertainty
PART IV: FIRM DECISIONS
Ch12 The Costs of Production
Ch13 Perfect Competition
Ch14 Monopoly
Ch15 Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
Ch16 The Factors of Production
Ch17 International Trade
PART V: PUBLIC ECONOMICS
Ch18 Externalities
Ch19 Public Goods and Common Resources
Ch20 Taxation and the Public Budget
Ch21 Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination
Ch22 Political Choices
Ch23 Public Policy and Choice Architecture
PART VI: THE DATA OF MACROECONOMICS
Ch24 Measuring GDP
Ch25 The Cost of Living
PART VII: LABOR MARKETS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Ch26 Unemployment and the Labor Market
Ch27 Economic Growth
PART VIII: THE ECONOMY IN THE SHORT AND LONG RUN
Ch28 Aggregate Expenditure
Ch29 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
Ch30 Fiscal Policy
PART IX: THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM AND INSTITUTIONS
Ch31 The Basics of Finance
Ch32 Money and the Monetary System
Ch33 Inflation
Ch34 Financial Crisis
PART X: INTERNATIONAL POLICY ISSUES
Ch35 Open-Market Macroeconomics
Ch36 Development Economics
