Principles of economics

PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS

A note to the Instructor
A note to the Student
Tables of Contents
Part I: Introduction
- 1. Understanding economics and economists
- 2. An introduction to economic analysis
- 3. Historical development of the American economy
- 4. Recent economic development in the United States
Part II: Macroeconomic analysis and policy
- 5. Price - level changes
- 6. Money: General considerations
- 7. The creation of money
- 8. The Federal reserve System and monetary policy
- 9. The national accounts
- 10. The theory of income determination I
- 11. The theory of income determination II
- 12. Extensions of macrotheory: comsumption function, accelerator, and the interest rate
- 13. Combiding the money analysis and the real analysis
- 14. Taxation and public expenditure: a macroeconomic view
- 15. Fiscal policy: general considerations; the public debt
Part III: Problems of growth and change
- 16. The theory of economic growth
- 17. Economic growth and development
- 18. Population problems
Part IV: Microeconomic analysis and policy
- 19. The determinations of relative prices
- 20. Behind the demand curve - utility and indifference
- 21. The competitive firm
- 22. Agrcultural policy
- 23. The monopolistic firm
- 24. Imperfect competition
- 25. Business organization and govement regulation
- 26. The reward to the productive factors
- 27. Rent, interest, profit
- 28. Two aspects of labor: unions and manpower problems
- 29. Taxation and public expenditure: a microeconomic view
- 30. Regional economics
- 31. The classical model of the economic system
Part V: International economics
- 32. International trade and finance
- 33. Foreign economic policy
Part VI: Two economic systems and government
- 34. Marxism and the Soviet economy
- 35. Goverment and our economic life
Index