Economics. /
N. Gregory Mankiw and Mark P. Taylor.
- 2nd. ed.
- London: South-Western, 2011.
- xxiv, 902 p. : ill. (col.) ;
Part 1: Introduction: Ten principles of economics -- Thinking like an economist -- Interdependence and the gains from trade -- Part 2: Supply and demand I: The market forces of supply and demand -- Elasticity and its applications -- Supply, demand and government policies -- Supply and demand II: Consumers, producers and the efficiency of markets --
Background to demand: the theory of consumer choice -- Background to supply: firms in competitive markets -- Part 3: Markets, efficiency and welfare: Consumer, producers and the efficiency of markets -- Supply, demand and government policies -- Part 4: The economics of the public sector: The tax system and costs of taxation -- Part 5: Inefficient market allocations: Public goods, common resources and merit goods -- Externalises and market failure -- Information and behavioural economics -- Part 6: Firm behaviour and markets structures: Firms' production decisions -- Market structure I: monology, market structure II: monopolistic competition -- Market structures: oligopoly -- Part 7: Factors markets: The markets: The economics of labour markets -- Part 8: Inequality: Income inequality and poverty -- Part 9: Trade: Interdependence and the gains from trade -- Parts 10: The data macroeconomics: Measuring a nation's income -- Measuring the cost of living -- Part 11: The real economy in the long run: Production and growth -- Unemployment -- Part 12: Interest rates, money and prices in the long run: Saving, investment and the financial system -- The basic tools of finance -- The monetary system -- Money growth and inflation -- Part 13: The macroeconomics of open economics -- Part 14: Short-run economic fluctuations: Business cycles -- Keynesian economics and IS-LM analysis -- Aggregate demand and aggregate supply -- The influence of monetary and fiscal policy on aggregate demand -- The short-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment -- Supply-side policies -- Part 15: International macroeconomics: Common currency areas and european monetary union -- The financial crisis and sovereign debt