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Michael Parkin is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Professor Parkin has held faculty appointments at Brown University, the University of Manchester, the University of Essex, and Bond University. He is a past president of the Canadian Economics Association and has served on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and the Journal of Monetary Economics and as managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics.

Professor Parkin's research on macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international economics has resulted in over 160 publications in journals and edited volumes, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He

Table of Contents
PART 1: INTRODUCTION

  1. What is Economics?
  2. The Economic Problem
PART 2: HOW MARKETS WORK
  1. Demand and Supply
  2. Elasticity
  3. Efficiency And Equity
  4. Government Actions in Markets
  5. Global markets in Action
PART 3: HOUSEHOLDS' CHOICES
  1. Utility and Demand
  2. Possibilities, Preferences, and Choices
PART 4: FIRMS AND MARKETS
  1. Organizing Production
  2. Output and Costs
  3. Perfect Competition
  4. Monopoly
  5. Monopolistic Competition
  6. Oligopoly
PART 5: MARKET FAILURE AND GOVERNMENT
  1. Public Choices, Public Goods, and Healthcare
  2. Externalities
PART 6: FACTOR MARKETS, INEQUALITY, AND UNCERTAINTY
  1. Markets for Factors of Production
  2. Economic Inequality
  3. Uncertainty and Information
PART 7: MONITORING MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
  1. Monitoring the Value of Production: GDP
  2. Monitoring Jobs and Inflation
PART 8: MACROECONOMIC TRENDS
  1. Economic Growth
  2. Finance, Saving, and Investment
  3. Money, the Price Level, and Inflation
  4. The Exchange Rate and the Balance of Payments
PART 9: MACROECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS
  1. Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand
  2. Expenditure Multipliers
  3. The Business Cycle, Inflation, and Deflation
PART 10: MACROECONOMIC POLICY
  1. Fiscal Policy
  2. Monetary Policy

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      Publisher: Pearson Education
      Publication Date: 1/17/2018 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780134744476, 978-0134744476
      ISBN10: 0134744470

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      About our author

      Michael Parkin is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Professor Parkin has held faculty appointments at Brown University, the University of Manchester, the University of Essex, and Bond University. He is a past president of the Canadian Economics Association and has served on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and the Journal of Monetary Economics and as managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics.

      Professor Parkin's research on macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international economics has resulted in over 160 publications in journals and edited volumes, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He

      Table of Contents
      PART 1: INTRODUCTION

      1. What is Economics?
      2. The Economic Problem
      PART 2: HOW MARKETS WORK
      1. Demand and Supply
      2. Elasticity
      3. Efficiency And Equity
      4. Government Actions in Markets
      5. Global markets in Action
      PART 3: HOUSEHOLDS' CHOICES
      1. Utility and Demand
      2. Possibilities, Preferences, and Choices
      PART 4: FIRMS AND MARKETS
      1. Organizing Production
      2. Output and Costs
      3. Perfect Competition
      4. Monopoly
      5. Monopolistic Competition
      6. Oligopoly
      PART 5: MARKET FAILURE AND GOVERNMENT
      1. Public Choices, Public Goods, and Healthcare
      2. Externalities
      PART 6: FACTOR MARKETS, INEQUALITY, AND UNCERTAINTY
      1. Markets for Factors of Production
      2. Economic Inequality
      3. Uncertainty and Information
      PART 7: MONITORING MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
      1. Monitoring the Value of Production: GDP
      2. Monitoring Jobs and Inflation
      PART 8: MACROECONOMIC TRENDS
      1. Economic Growth
      2. Finance, Saving, and Investment
      3. Money, the Price Level, and Inflation
      4. The Exchange Rate and the Balance of Payments
      PART 9: MACROECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS
      1. Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand
      2. Expenditure Multipliers
      3. The Business Cycle, Inflation, and Deflation
      PART 10: MACROECONOMIC POLICY
      1. Fiscal Policy
      2. Monetary Policy

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