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" Principles of economics. "
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858009
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Taylor, Timothy,1960-
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Principles of economics.
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Houston, Texas :: OpenStax College, Rice University,, [2014]-
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, ©2014-
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1 online resource (832 pages) :: color illustrations
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1938168232
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: 9781938168239
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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.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 811-822) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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"Principles of Economics is designed for a two-semester principles of economics sequence."--Page 6.
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Economics, Textbooks.
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Economics-- United States, Textbooks.
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Economics.
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United States.
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HB171.5.T238 2014
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Dodge, Eric R.
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Gamez, Cynthia,1962-
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Greenlaw, Steven A.
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Jauregui, Andres,1976-
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Keenan, Diane
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MacDonald, Dan,1985-
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Moledina, Amyaz
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Richardson, Craig,1962-
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Shapiro, David,1946-
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Sonenshine, Ralph
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OpenStax College,issuing body.
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