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Chapters: Basic Economic Concepts, The Nature and Function of Product Markets, Factor Markets, Market Failure and the Role of Government.
Chapters: Basic Economic Concepts; Measurement of Economic Systems; National Income and Price Determination; Financial Sector; Inflation, Unemployment, and Stabilization Policies; Economic Growth and Productivity; International Trade and Finance.
Beginning with the smallest economic unit, the individual, the infographics deconstruct the economy piece by piece, with the perspective broadening as successive chapters move on to companies, the nation, and the world.
Compelling, lively short stories paint an expansive yet intimate picture of the world economy as seen through the ideas, people, and tools that have transformed the way we play, work, and live our lives.
Six chapters trace the history of the discipline from Adam Smith to present-day globalization, revealing how different situations call for different models, with each model telling only a partial story of how the world works.
This book considers such questions as what happens when young people don’t do better than the generations before them and the consequences when women and minorities earn less than white men.
Using ideas from ecological, behavioral, feminist, and institutional economics, the book addresses the key question of how to transform the current growth-obssessed system into a more balanced and sustainable one that enables both humans and the planet to thrive.
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