Economics for Life Smart Choices for You, First Edition with MyEconLab
by Cohen, Avi J.; Howe, IanEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2011-06-01
Publisher(s): Prentice Hall
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Summary
Economics for Life: Smart Choices for You offers a new approach to learning and teaching economics that demonstrates the relevance of economics to students. Accessible language, a non-mathematical approach and use of practical examples connects economics to studentsrs" lives in a meaningful way. This text will teach students about economics, unlike traditional texts, that teach how to be an economist.
Table of Contents
BRIEF CONTENTS
| Chapter 1 | What’s in Economics for You? Scarcity, Opportunity Cost, Trade |
| Chapter 2 | Making Smart Choices The Law of Demand |
| Chapter 3 | Show Me the Money The Law of Supply |
| Chapter 4 | Coordinating Smart Choices Demand and Supply |
| Chapter 5 | What Gives When Prices Don’t? Government Choices, Markets, Efficiency, and Equity |
| Chapter 6 | Finding the Bottom Line Opportunity Costs, Economic Profit/Loss, and the Miracle of Markets |
| Chapter 7 | The Power to Price Monopoly and Competition |
| Chapter 8 | Pricing for Profits Marginal Revenue and Marginal Cost |
| Chapter 9 | Monopoly Rules Government Regulation, Competition, and the Law |
| Chapter 10 | Acid Rain on Other’s Parades Externalities, Carbon Taxes, Free Riders, and Public Goods |
| Chapter 11 | What Are You Worth? Demand and Supply in Input Markets, and Distributions of Income and Wealth |
| Afterword |
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| Glossary |
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| Answers to Study Guide Questions |
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| Credits |
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| Index |
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