Economics: European Edition

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Macmillan, 6. 4. 2007 - Počet stran: 1088
"Economics: European Edition" by leading economist, Paul Krugman, and lecturers, Robin Wells and Kathryn Graddy, is the ideal text for introductory economics, bringing together an international scope of real world examples and economic theory, which students may apply to their everyday lives. Economics is written in a style that is relevant, accessible and entertaining for students; its unique story-telling approach making economic theories easier to understand and absorb. The text is supported by a number of features to enhance student understanding as well as a full array of supplements to consolidate the learning process.
 

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part
1
Common Ground
5
The real cost of something is what
7
A Look Ahead
17
chapter 2
20
Misunderstanding Comparative Advantage
29
Graphs in Economics
41
Graphs That Depict Numerical Information
49
Controlling Greenhouse Gases
481
A Look Ahead
487
Why markets can supply only private goods efficiently
494
CERNThe European Organization
500
Taxes Government Spending
509
Filesharing Theft or Freedom
535
Drugs on the Market
542
Competition policy
549

chapter 3
56
Beating the Traffic
62
Supply Demand and Equilibrium
68
Why do all sales and purchases in a market take place
70
Supply Demand and Controlled
77
Price and Quantity Controls
84
Oil Shortages and Queues
90
Controlling Quantities
96
If Selling Cigarettes Is a Crime Only
105
chapter 5
111
907
129
chapter 6
138
I Want a New Drug
144
chapter 7
163
Increasing Total Cost versus Increasing Marginal
170
part 4
172
The Next Generation
176
Part
182
chapter 8
185
chapter 9
211
part 5
222
British Power
225
A Crushing Reversal
231
Getting Satisfaction
237
Calculating Marginal Utility Using
239
Food for Thought on Budget
245
But Are Consumers Really
251
Where would you like to live?
260
Indifference Curves and Consumer Choice
266
Substitutes
274
The Value of a Degree
289
Star Power
300
The Supply of Labour
308
Analysis of Labour Supply
316
Efficiency and Equity
322
A Great LeapBackwards
335
Beyond Perfect
344
Are Diamond Monopolies
350
Finding the Monopoly Price
356
The Art of PriceFixing
375
The Great Vitamin Conspiracy
382
The Rise and Fall and Rise of OPEC
390
Air Wars
396
Large numbers
403
ISPs from Boom to Bust?
410
Absolut Irrationality?
417
The Pauper Labour Fallacy
425
Trade Wages and Land Prices in
434
Uncertainty Risk and Private
446
Paying to avoid risk
452
The Virgin Group
460
A Look Ahead
466
Benefit of Pollution?
472
Talking and Driving
474
Looking for a Job?
555
The Great Depression
561
Has the Business Cycle Been
567
An Underground Measure
573
After the Revolution
580
Our Imputed Lives
587
The Bad Old Days
610
The Sources of LongRun Growth
616
The Information Technology Paradox
622
Research Basic or Applied?
626
A Look Ahead
632
Savings Investment Spending
637
Matching Up Savings and Investment Spending
638
Budgets and Investment Spending
648
Banks and the South Korean Miracle
656
Shocks to the System
664
ShortRun Economic Fluctuations
666
Income and Expenditure
698
Forecasting GDP
704
Bad Times in Buenos Aires
717
Income and Expenditure
721
Deriving the Multiplier Algebraically
722
Fiscal Policy and the Multiplier
730
Stability Pactor Stupidity Pact?
738
Argentinas Creditors Take a Haircut
745
chapter 11
751
Money and Banking
753
part 6
766
Interest in Interest Rates
777
A Yen for Cash
784
Longterm Interest Rates
790
Monetary Policy and the UK Output
796
chapter 12
797
Two Paths to Unemployment
806
Rates and Benefits Germany France
814
Why Doesnt the Labour Market Move Quickly
820
A Look Ahead
829
Hourly Wages
832
Indexing to Inflation
836
part 7
840
Euro Dilemmas
856
The Golden Age of Capital Flows
865
Burgernomics
873
Exchange rate regimes
875
The Joy of a Devalued Pound
882
In the Long Run We Are All Dead
886
The Great Depression and the Keynesian Revolution
889
Solutions to Check Your Understanding
1
chapter 14
14
chapter 20
20
Macroeconomic Data 19812004
1
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Paul Krugman was born on February 28, 1953. He received a B.S. in economics from Yale University in 1974 and a Ph.D from MIT in 1977. From 1982 to 1983, he worked at the Reagan White House as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. He taught at numerous universities including Yale University, MIT, UC Berkeley, the London School of Economics, and Stanford University before becoming a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University in 2000. He has written over 200 scholarly papers and 20 books including Peddling Prosperity; International Economics: Theory and Policy; The Great Unraveling; and The Conscience of a Liberal. Since 2000, he has written a twice-weekly column for The New York Times. He received the 1991 John Bates Clark Medal and the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. His title End This Depression Now! made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012.

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