Instructor's Manual for Economics, Global Edition

Glenn Hubbard, Anthony O'Brien (Autoren)

Online Resource

2022 | 8th edition
Pearson Education Limited (Hersteller)
978-1-292-43067-6 (ISBN)

Autor

About our authors Glenn Hubbard, policymaker, professor, and researcher. Hubbard is Dean emeritus and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University and professor of economics in Columbia’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a director of Automatic Data Processing, Black Rock Fixed-Income Funds, and MetLife. He received a PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1983. From 2001 to 2003, he served as chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers and chair of the OECD Economic Policy Committee, and from 1991 to 1993, he was deputy assistant secretary of the US Treasury Department. He currently serves as co-chair of the nonpartisan Committee on Capital Markets Regulation. Hubbard’s fields of specialization are public economics, financial markets and institutions, corporate finance, macroeconomics, industrial organization, and public policy. He is the author of more than 100 articles in leading journals, including American Economic Review; Brookings Papers on Economic Activity; Journal of Finance; Journal of Financial Economics; Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; Journal of Political Economy; Journal of Public Economics; Quarterly Journal of Economics; RAND Journal of Economics; and Review of Economics and Statistics. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and numerous private foundations. Tony O’Brien, award-winning professor and researcher. O’Brien is a professor of economics at Lehigh University. He received a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987. He has taught principles of economics for more than 20 years, in both large sections and small honors classes. He received the Lehigh University Award for Distinguished Teaching. He was formerly the director of the Diamond Center for Economic Education and was named a Dana Foundation Faculty Fellow and Lehigh Class of 1961 Professor of Economics. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. O’Brien’s research has dealt with issues such as the evolution of the US automobile industry, the sources of US economic competitiveness, the development of US trade policy, the causes of the Great Depression, and the causes of black-white income differences. His research has been published in leading journals, including American Economic Review; Quarterly Journal of Economics; Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; Industrial Relations; Journal of Economic History; and Explorations in Economic History. His research has been supported by grants from government agencies and private foundations.

Inhalt

PART 1: INTRODUCTION
1. Economics: Foundations and Models
    Appendix: Using Graphs and Formulas
2. Trade-offs, Comparative Advantage, and the Market System
3. Where Prices Come From: The Interaction of Demand and Supply
4. Economic Efficiency, Government Price Setting, and Taxes
    Appendix: Quantitative Demand and Supply Analysis

PART 2: MARKETS IN ACTION: POLICY AND APPLICATIONS
5. Externalities, Environmental Policy, and Public Goods
6. Elasticity: The Responsiveness of Demand and Supply
7. The Economics of Health Care

PART 3: FIRMS IN THE DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIES
8. Firms, the Stock Market, and Corporate Governance
    Appendix: Present Value
    Online Appendix: Tools to Analyze Firms’ Financial Information
9. Comparative Advantage and the Gains from International Trade

PART 4: MICROECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS: CONSUMERS AND FIRMS
10. Consumer Choice and Behavioral Economics
      Appendix: Using Indifference Curves and Budget Lines to Understand Consumer Behavior
11. Technology, Production, and Costs
      Online Appendix: Using Isoquants and Isocost Lines to Understand Production and Cost

PART 5: MARKET STRUCTURE AND FIRM STRATEGY
12. Firms in Perfectly Competitive Markets
13. Monopolistic Competition: The Competitive Model in a More Realistic Setting
14. Oligopoly: Firms in Less Competitive Markets
15. Monopoly and Antitrust Policy

PART 6: LABOR MARKETS, PUBLIC CHOICE, AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME
16. The Markets for Labor and Other Factors of Production
17. Public Choice, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income

PART 7: MACROECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS AND LONG-RUN GROWTH
18. GDP: Measuring Total Production and Income
19. Unemployment and Inflation
20. Economic Growth, the Financial System, and Business Cycles
21. Long-Run Economic Growth: Sources and Policies

PART 8: SHORT-RUN FLUCTUATIONS
22. Aggregate Expenditure and Output in the Short Run
      Appendix: The Algebra of Macroeconomic Equilibrium
23. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply Analysis
      Appendix: Macroeconomic Schools of Thought

PART 9: MONETARY AND FISCAL POLICY
24. Money, Banks, and the Federal Reserve System
25. Monetary Policy
26. Fiscal Policy
      Appendix: A Closer Look at the Multiplier
27. Inflation, Unemployment, and Federal Reserve Policy

PART 10: THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY
28. Macroeconomics in an Open Economy
      Online Appendix: The Gold Standard and the Bretton Woods System

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2022
• Verlagsort: Harlow
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• ISBN-10: 1-292-43067-2 / 1292430672
• ISBN-13: 978-1-292-43067-6 / 9781292430676
• Zustand: Neuware