TY - BOOK AU - Mankiw,N.Gregory TI - Principles of economics SN - 0030982383 AV - HB171.5 .M264 1998 PY - 1998///] CY - Fort Worth, TX PB - Dryden Press KW - Economics N1 - Includes index; Part I: Introduction; Ten Principles of Economics; Thinking Like an Economist; Interdependence and the Gains from Trade; Part II: Supply and Demand I: How Markets Work; The Market Forces of Supply and Demand; Elasticity and Its Application; Supply, Demand, and Government Policies; Part III: Supply and Demand II: Markets and Welfare; Consumers, Producers, and the Efficiency of Markets; Application: The Costs of Taxation; Application: International Trade; Part IV: The Economics of Public Sector; Externalities; Public Goods and Common Resources; The Design of the Tax System; Part V: Firm Behaviour and the Organisation; The Costs of Production; Firms in Competitive Markets; Monopoly; Oligopoly; Monopolistic Competition; Part VI: The Economics of Labour Markets; The Markets for Factors of Production; Earnings and Discrimination; The Distribution of Income; Part VII: Advanced Topic; The Theory of Consumer Choice; Part VIII: The Data of Macroeconomics; Measuring a Nation's Income; Measuring the Cost of Living; Part IX: The Real Economy in the Long Run; Production and Growth; Saving, Investment, and the Financial System; The Natural Rate of Unemployment; Part X: Money and Prices in the Long Run; The Monetary System; Inflation: Its Causes and Costs; Part XI: The Macroeconomics of Open Economies; Open-Economy Macroeconomics: Basic Concepts; A Macroeconomic Theory of the Open Economy; Part XII: Short-Run Economic Fluctuations; Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply; The Influence of Monetary and Fiscal Policy on Aggregate Demand; The Short-run Tradeoff between Inflation and Unemployment; Part XIII: Final Thoughts; Five Debates Over Macroeconomic Policy ER -