Economics for Today – Irvin B. Tucker – 7th Edition

<strong>PART I: INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS.</strong>
1. Introducing the Economic Way of Thinking.
Appendix: Applying Graphs to Economics.
2. Production Possibilities, Opportunity Cost, and Economic Growth.

<strong>PART II: MICROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS.</strong>
3. Market Demand and Supply.
Appendix: Consumer Surplus, Producer Surplus, and Market Efficiency.
4. Markets in Action.
Appendix: Applying Supply and Demand Analysis to Health Care.
5. Price Elasticity of Demand and Supply.
6. Consumer Choice Theory.
Appendix: Indifference Curve Analysis.
7. Production Costs.

<strong>PART III. MARKET STRUCTURES.</strong>
8. Perfect Competition.
9. Monopoly.
10. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly.
11. Labor Markets.

<strong>PART IV: MICROECONOMIC POLICY ISSUES.</strong>
12. Income Distribution, Poverty, and Discrimination.
13. Antitrust and Regulation.
14. Environmental Economics.

<strong>PART V: MACROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS.</strong>
15. Gross Domestic Product.
Appendix: A Four-Sector Circular Flow Model.
16. Business Cycles and Unemployment.
17. Inflation.

<strong>PART VI: MACROECONOMIC THEORY AND POLICY.</strong>
18. The Keynesian Model.
19. The Keynesian Model in Action.
20. Aggregate Demand and Supply.
Appendix: The Self-Correcting Aggregate Demand and Supply Model.
21. Fiscal Policy.
22. The Public Sector.
23. Federal Deficits, Surpluses, and the National Debt.

<strong>PART VII: MONEY, BANKING, AND MONETARY POLICY.</strong>
24. Money and the Federal Reserve System.
25. Money Creation.
26. Monetary Policy.
Appendix: Policy Disputes Using the Self-Correcting Aggregate Demand and Supply Model.
27. The Phillips Curve and Expectations Theory.

<strong>PART VIII: THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY.</strong>
28. International Trade and Finance.
29. Economies in Transition.
30. Growth and the Less-Developed Countries.

Appendix A Answers to Odd-Numbered Study Questions and Problems.
Appendix B Answers to Practice Quizzes.
Appendix C Answers to Road Map Questions.