TY - BOOK AU - McConnell,Campbell R. AU - Brue,Stanley L. ED - Brue, Stanley L., TI - Economics: principles, problems, and policies SN - 0070470944 SN - 978007047 AV - HB171.5 .M47 PY - 1999/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Economics N1 - Includes index; Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Suggested One-Semester and One-Quarter Course -- Outlines -- Pt. 1. An Introduction to Economics and the Economy -- 1. The Nature and Method of Economics -- 2. The Economizing Problem -- 3. Pure Capitalism and the Circular Flow -- 4. Understanding Individual Markets: Supply and Demand -- 5. The Private Sectors and the Market System -- 6. The Public Sector -- Pt. 2. National Income, Employment, and Fiscal Policy -- 7. Measuring Domestic Output, National Income, and the Price Level -- 8. Macroeconomic Instability: Unemployment and Inflation -- 9. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply -- 10. Classical and Keynesian Theories of Employment -- 11. Equilibrium Domestic Output in the Keynesian Model -- 12. Fiscal Policy -- Pt. 3. Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy -- 13. Money and Banking -- 14. How Banks Create Money -- 15. The Federal Reserve Banks and Monetary Policy -- Pt. 4. Problems and Controversies in Macroeconomics -- 16. Alternative Views: Monetarism and Rational Expectations -- 17. The Inflation-Unemployment Relationship -- 18. Budget Deficits and the Public Debt -- 19. Economic Growth -- Pt. 5. Microeconomics of Product and Resource Markets -- 20. Demand and Supply: Elasticities and Applications -- 21. Consumer Behavior and Utility Maximization -- 22. The Costs of Production -- 23. Price and Output Determination: Pure Competition -- 24. Price and Output Determination: Pure Monopoly -- 25. Price and Output Determination: Monopolistic Competition -- 26. Price and Output Determination: Oligopoly -- 27. Production and the Demand for Resources -- 28. The Pricing and Employment of Resources: Wage Determination -- 29. The Pricing and Employment of Resources: Rent, Interest, and Profits -- 30. General Equilibrium: The Market System and Its Operation -- Pt. 6. Government and Current Economic Problems -- 31. Government and Market Failure: Public Goods, the Environment, and Information Problems -- 32. Public Choice Theory and Taxation -- 33. Antitrust and Regulation -- 34. Agriculture: Economics and Policy -- 35. Income Inequality and Poverty -- 36. Labor Market Issues: Unionism, Discrimination, and Immigration -- Pt. 7. International Economics and the World Economy -- 37. International Trade: Comparative Advantage and Protectionism -- 38. Exchange Rates, the Balance of Payments, and Trade Deficits -- 39. Growth and the Less Developed Countries -- 40. The Soviet Economy in Transition -- Glossary -- ER -