Economics

Economics
Author: David C. Colander
Publisher: Irwin/McGraw-Hill
Total Pages: 944
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780072549027

Presenting principles of economics, this textbook aims to instill economic sensibility in the student. It emphasizes the intellectual and historical context to which the economic models are applied.

Principles of Macro-economics

Principles of Macro-economics
Author: Robert H. Frank
Publisher: Irwin/McGraw-Hill
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780072554106

In recent years, innovative texts in mathematics, science, foreign languages, and other fields have achieved dramatic pedagogical gains by abandoning the traditional encyclopedic approach in favor of attempting to teach a short list of core principles in depth. Two well-respected writers and researchers, Bob Frank and Ben Bernanke, have shown that the less-is-more approach affords similar gains in introductory economics. Although recent editions of a few other texts have paid lip service to this new approach, Frank/Bernanke is by far the best thought out and best executed principles text in this mold. Avoiding excessive reliance on formal mathematical derivations, it presents concepts intuitively through examples drawn from familiar contexts. The authors introduce a well-articulated short list of core principles and reinforcing them by illustrating and applying each in numerous contexts. Students are periodically asked to apply these principles to answer related questions, exercises, and problems. The text also encourages students to become Economic Naturalists, people who employ basic economic principles to understand and explain what they observe in the world around them. An economic naturalist understands, for example, that infant safety seats are required in cars but not in airplanes because the marginal cost of space to accommodate these seats is typically zero in cars but often hundreds of dollars in airplanes. Such examples engage student interest while teaching them to see each feature of their economic landscape as the reflection of an implicit or explicit cost-benefit calculation. The Second Edition of Frank/Bernanke follows the successful First Edition with severalpedagogical improvements. Based on reviewer feedback, this edition offers (1) even more streamlined coverage of the cost-benefit approach in the introductory chapter; (2) exercises that are more closely tied to the examples; (3) expanded narrative explanations of important principles, making them more accessible to average students; and (4) expanded coverage of several key topics. The result is a revision that is motivating to students, an effective text for teaching, and an exciting first course in Economics.

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics
Author: David C. Colander
Publisher: Irwin/McGraw-Hill
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2003-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780072551198

Written in an informal colloquial style, this student-friendly principles of economics textbook aims to instill economic sensibility in the student. It emphasizes the intellectual and historical context to which the economic models are applied.

Principles of Economics

Principles of Economics
Author: Robert H. Frank
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages: 904
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Using a short list of core principles in-depth, this book presents concepts intuitively through examples drawn from familiar contexts. The authors introduce a short list of core principles and reinforce them by illustrating and applying each in many contexts.

The Micro Economy Today

The Micro Economy Today
Author: Bradley R. Schiller
Publisher: Irwin/McGraw-Hill
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780072979640

Economy Today

Economy Today
Author: Bradley R. Schiller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 834
Release: 2002-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780071151146

"The Economy Today is exceptionally well suited for this task. From its inception, this text has been motivated by policy issues. The primary goal has been to help students understand the challenges of economic pol-icy and the consequences of specific actions like tariffs, regulation, and tax reform. It has always provided a bal-anced discussion of these issues, allowing students to assess different perspectives on critical issues. For this edi-tion, instructors will particularly appreciate the unique chapters that provide a solid foundation for explaining, illus-trating, and assessing major Trump initiatives. Chapter 16, for example, is devoted to supply-side theory, a core foundation of Trumponomics. Students can explore the theoretical basis for tax cuts, deregulation, and immigration reform. Chapter 35 on international trade goes beyond the theory of comparative advantage to explain why and how some market participants seek to erect trade barriers. The unique chapter devoted to deregulation (Chapter 27) ex-amines the rationale for government regulation of industry, the inherent trade-offs, and the consequences of (de)regulation. The same kind of insistence on critical thinking about policy issues is apparent in Chapter 28 on envi-ronmental protection"--