| Description |
1 online resource (832 pages) : color illustrations |
| Current Frequency |
Updated irregularly. |
| Description |
text file PDF 13.33 MB |
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text file PDF 116.71 MB |
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text file HTML |
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text file DAISY 3.0 |
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text file BRF |
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text file iBooks |
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text file EPUB 87.1 MB |
| Publication Date |
Original version (PE-1-001-RS) released March 19, 2014. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Note |
Senior contributing author, Timothy Taylor; senior content expert, Steven A. Greenlaw; senior contributors, Eric Dodge, Cynthia Gamez, Andres Jauregui, Diane Keenan, Dan MacDonald, Amyaz Moledina, Craig Richardson, David Shapiro, Ralph Sonenshine. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 811-822) and index. |
| Note |
Resource simultaneously available in high- and low-resolution PDF files, direct-access HTML version, DAISY 3.0 text with images, DAISY 3.0 text without images, BRF (Braille Refreshable Format), and iBooks format. |
| Contents |
Welcome to economics! -- Choice in a world of scarcity -- Demand and supply -- Labor and financial markets -- Elasticity -- Consumer choices -- Cost and industry structure -- Perfect competition -- Monopoly -- Monopolistic competition and oligopoly -- Monopoly and antitrust policy -- Environmental protection and negative externalities -- Positive externalities and public goods -- Poverty and economic inequality -- Issues in labor markets : unions, discrimination, immigration -- Information, risk, and insurance -- Financial markets -- Public economy -- The macroeconomic perspective -- Economic growth -- Unemployment -- Inflation -- The international trade and capital flows -- The aggregate demand/aggregate supply model -- The Keynesian perspective -- The neoclassical perspective -- Money and banking -- Monetary policy and bank regulation -- Exchange rates and international capital flows -- Government budgets and fiscal policy -- The impacts of government borrowing -- Macroeconomic policy around the world -- International trade -- Globalization and protectionism -- The use of mathematics in principles of economics -- Indifference curves -- Present discounted value -- The expenditure-output model. |
| Summary |
"Principles of Economics is designed for a two-semester principles of economics sequence."--Page 6. |
| Form |
Also available in print. |
| Local Note |
Open Educational Resources (OER). Open Textbooks |
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Open Textbook Library |
| Subject |
Economics -- Textbooks.
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Economics. |
| Genre/Form |
Textbooks.
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| Subject |
Economics -- United States -- Textbooks.
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United States. |
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Textbooks.
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| Added Author |
Greenlaw, Steven A., author.
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Dodge, Eric R., author.
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Gamez, Cynthia, 1962- author.
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Jauregui, Andres, 1976- author.
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Keenan, Diane, author.
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MacDonald, Dan, 1985- author.
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Moledina, Amyaz, author.
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Richardson, Craig, 1962- author.
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Shapiro, David, 1946- author.
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Sonenshine, Ralph, author.
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OpenStax College, issuing body.
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| ISBN |
9781938168239 |
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1938168232 |
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