TY - BOOK AU - McConnell,Campbell R. AU - Brue,Stanley L. TI - Macroeconomics: principles, problems, and policies SN - 9780073273082 (alk. paper) AV - HB171.5 .M473 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Boston PB - McGraw-Hill/Irwin KW - Macroeconomics N1 - Includes index; "Seventeenth edition is accompanied by and integrated with ... DiscoverEcon* with Paul Solman Videos ... which consists of video tutorials by Paul Solman ... interactive exercises, and testing."; 1. The Nature and Method of Economics -- 2. The Economizing Problem -- 3. Understanding Individual Markets: Demand and Supply -- 4. Pure Capitalism and the Market System -- 5. The Mixed Economy: Private and Public Sectors -- 6. The United States in the Global Economy -- 7. Demand and Supply: Elasticities and Applications -- 8. Consumer Behavior and Utility Maximization -- 9. The Costs of Production -- 10. Price and Output Determination: Pure Competition -- 11. Price and Output Determination: Pure Monopoly -- 12. Price and Output Determination: Monopolistic Competition -- 13. Price and Output Determination: Oligopoly -- 14. Production and the Demand for Resources -- 15. The Pricing and Employment of Resources: Wage Determination -- 16. The Pricing and Employment of Resources: Rent, Interest, and Profits -- 17. Government and Market Failure: Public Goods, the Environment, and Information Problems -- 18. Public Choice Theory and Taxation -- 19. Antitrust, Regulation, and Industrial Policy -- 20. Agriculture: Economics and Policy -- 21. Income Inequality and Poverty -- 22. The Economics of Health Care -- 23. Labor Market Issues: Unionism, Discrimination, and Immigration -- 24. International Trade -- 25. Exchange Rates, the Balance of Payments, and Trade Deficits -- 26. Russia: An Economy in Transition -- Answers to Key Questions -- Glossary -- Index ER -