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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Bade Robin"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Foundations of microeconomics / / Robin Bade, Michael Parkin"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Boston : , : Pearson, , 2015"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-292-01905-0"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[Seventh edition, global edition.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (599 pages) : color illustrations, tables, graphs, photographs"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Always Learning"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"338.5"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Microeconomics"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Includes index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Part 1 Introduction -- Chapter 1 Getting Started -- Chapter Checklist -- 1.1 Definition and Questions -- Scarcity -- Economics Defined -- What, How, and For Whom? -- Can the Pursuit of Self-Interest Be in the Social Interest? -- Checkpoint 1.1 -- 1.2 The Economic Way of Thinking -- Economic Ideas -- A Choice Is a Tradeoff -- Cost: What You Must Give Up -- Benefit: What You Gain -- Rational Choice -- How Much? Choosing at the Margin -- Choices Respond to Incentives -- Economics as Social Science -- Economics as Policy Tool -- Checkpoint 1.2 -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter Checkpoint -- Appendix: Making and Using Graphs -- Basic Idea -- Interpreting Data Graphs -- Interpreting Graphs Used in Economic Models -- The Slope of a Relationship -- Relationships Among More Than Two Variables -- Appendix Checkpoint -- EYE on the PAST: Adam Smith and the Birth of Economics as a Social Science -- EYE on the BENEFIT AND COST OF SCHOOL: Did You Make the Right Decision? -- Chapter 2 The U.S. and Global Economies -- Chapter Checklist -- 2.1 What, How, and For Whom? -- What Do We Produce? -- How Do We Produce? -- For Whom Do We Produce? -- Checkpoint 2.1 -- 2.2 The Global Economy -- The People -- The Economies -- What in the Global Economy? -- How in the Global Economy? -- For Whom in the Global Economy? -- Checkpoint 2.2 -- 2.3 The Circular Flows -- Households and Firms -- Markets -- Real Flows and Money Flows -- Governments -- Governments in the Circular Flow -- Circular Flows in the Global Economy -- Checkpoint 2.3 -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter Checkpoint -- EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY: What We Produce -- EYE on the PAST: Changes in What We Produce -- EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY: Changes in How We Produce in "]
[{"$nulls":4},"the Information Economy -- EYE on the DREAMLINER: Who Makes the Dreamliner?."]
[{"$nulls":4},"EYE on the GLOBAL ECONOMY: Differences in How We Produce -- EYE on YOUR LIFE: The U.S. and Global Economies in Your Life -- EYE on the PAST: Growing Government -- EYE on the GLOBAL ECONOMY: The Ups and Downs in International Trade -- Chapter 3 The Economic Problem -- Chapter Checklist -- 3.1 Production Possibilities -- Production Possibilities Frontier -- Checkpoint 3.1 -- 3.2 Opportunity Cost -- The Opportunity Cost of a Cell Phone -- Opportunity Cost and the Slope of the PPF -- Opportunity Cost Is a Ratio -- Increasing Opportunity Costs Are Everywhere -- Your Increasing Opportunity Cost -- Checkpoint 3.2 -- 3.3 Economic Growth -- Checkpoint 3.3 -- 3.4 Specialization and Trade -- Absolute Advantage and Comparative Advantage -- Comparative Advantage: An Example -- Achieving Gains from Trade -- Checkpoint 3.4 -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter Checkpoint -- EYE on YOUR LIFE: Your Production Possibilities Frontier -- EYE on the ENVIRONMENT: Is Wind Power Free? -- EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY: Expanding Our Production Possibilities -- EYE on the GLOBAL ECONOMY: Hong Kong's Rapid Economic Growth -- EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY: No One Knows How to Make a Pencil -- EYE on YOUR LIFE: Your Comparative Advantage -- Chapter 4 Demand and Supply -- Chapter Checklist -- Competitive Markets -- 4.1 Demand -- The Law of Demand -- Demand Schedule and Demand Curve -- Individual Demand and Market Demand -- Changes in Demand -- Change in Quantity Demanded Versus Change in Demand -- Checkpoint 4.1 -- 4.2 Supply -- The Law of Supply -- Supply Schedule and Supply Curve -- Individual Supply and Market Supply -- Changes in Supply -- Change in Quantity Supplied Versus Change in Supply -- Checkpoint 4.2 -- 4.3 Market Equilibrium -- Price: A Market's Automatic Regulator -- Predicting Price Changes: Three Questions -- Effects of Changes in Demand -- Effects of Changes in Supply."]
[{"$nulls":4},"Effects of Changes in Both Demand and Supply -- Checkpoint 4.3 -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter Checkpoint -- EYE on YOUR LIFE: Understanding and Using Demand and Supply -- EYE on TUITION: Why Does Tuition Keep Rising? -- EYE on the GLOBAL ECONOMY: The Market for Solar Panels -- Part 2 A Closer Look at Markets -- Chapter 5 Elasticities of Demand and Supply -- Chapter Checklist -- 5.1 The Price Elasticity of Demand -- Percentage Change in Price -- Percentage Change in Quantity Demanded -- Comparing the Percentage Changes in Price and Quantity -- Elastic and Inelastic Demand -- Influences on the Price Elasticity of Demand -- Computing the Price Elasticity of Demand -- Interpreting the Price Elasticity of Demand Number -- Elasticity Along a Linear Demand Curve -- Total Revenue and the Price Elasticity of Demand -- Applications of the Price Elasticity of Demand -- Checkpoint 5.1 -- 5.2 The Price Elasticity of Supply -- Elastic and Inelastic Supply -- Influences on the Price Elasticity of Supply -- Computing the Price Elasticity of Supply -- Checkpoint 5.2 -- 5.3 Cross Elasticity and Income Elasticity -- Cross Elasticity of Demand -- Income Elasticity of Demand -- Checkpoint 5.3 -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter Checkpoint -- EYE on the GLOBAL ECONOMY: Price Elasticities of Demand -- EYE on the PRICE OF GASOLINE: What Do You Do When the Price of Gasoline Rises? -- EYE on YOUR LIFE: Your Price Elasticities of Demand -- Chapter 6 Efficiency and Fairness of Markets -- Chapter Checklist -- 6.1 Allocation Methods and efficiency -- Resource Allocation Methods -- Using Resources Efficiently -- Checkpoint 6.1 -- 6.2 Value, Price, and Consumer Surplus -- Demand and Marginal Benefit -- Consumer Surplus -- Checkpoint 6.2 -- 6.3 Cost, Price, and Producer Surplus -- Supply and Marginal Cost -- Producer Surplus -- "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Checkpoint 6.3 -- 6.4 Are Markets Efficient?."]
[{"$nulls":4},"Marginal Benefit Equals Marginal Cost -- Total Surplus Is Maximized -- The Invisible Hand -- Market Failure -- Sources of Market Failure -- Alternatives to the Market -- Checkpoint 6.4 -- 6.5 Are Markets Fair? -- It's Not Fair If the Rules Aren't Fair -- It's Not Fair If the Result Isn't Fair -- Compromise -- Checkpoint 6.5 -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter Checkpoint -- EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY: The Invisible Hand and e-Commerce -- EYE on PRICE GOUGING: Should Price Gouging Be Illegal? -- EYE on YOUR LIFE: Allocation Methods, Efficiency, and Fairness -- Part 3 How Governments Influence the Economy -- Chapter 7 Government Actions in Markets -- Chapter Checklist -- 7.1 Price Ceilings -- A Rent Ceiling -- Are Rent Ceilings Efficient? -- Are Rent Ceilings Fair? -- If Rent Ceilings Are So Bad, Why Do We Have Them? -- Checkpoint 7.1 -- 7.2 Price Floors -- The Minimum Wage -- Is the Minimum Wage Efficient? -- Is the Minimum Wage Fair? -- If the Minimum Wage Is So Bad, Why Do We Have It? -- Checkpoint 7.2 -- 7.3 Price Supports in Agriculture -- How Governments Intervene in Markets for Farm Products -- Price Support: An Illustration -- Checkpoint 7.3 -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter Checkpoint -- EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY: The Federal Minimum Wage -- EYE on PRICE REGULATION: Can the President Repeal the Laws of Supply and Demand? -- EYE on YOUR LIFE: Price Ceilings and Price Floors -- Chapter 8 Taxes -- Chapter Checklist -- 8.1 Taxes on Buyers and Sellers -- Tax Incidence -- Taxes and Efficiency -- Incidence, Inefficiency, and Elasticity -- Incidence, Inefficiency, and the Elasticity of Demand -- Incidence, Inefficiency, and the Elasticity of Supply -- Checkpoint 8.1 -- 8.2 Income Tax and Social Security Tax -- The Personal Income Tax -- The Effects of the Income Tax -- The Social Security Tax -- Checkpoint 8.2 -- 8.3 Fairness and the Big Tradeoff."]
[{"$nulls":4},"The Benefits Principle -- The Ability-to-Pay Principle -- The Marriage Tax Problem -- The Big Tradeoff -- Checkpoint 8.3 -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter Checkpoint -- EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY: Taxes in the United States Today -- EYE on CONGRESS: Does Congress Decide Who Pays the Taxes? -- EYE on the PAST: The Origins and History of the U.S. Income Tax -- EYE on YOUR LIFE: Tax Freedom Day -- Chapter 9 Global Markets in Action -- Chapter Checklist -- 9.1 How Global Markets Work -- International Trade Today -- What Drives International Trade? -- Why the United States Imports T-Shirts -- Why the United States Exports Airplanes -- Checkpoint 9.1 -- 9.2 Winners, Losers, and Net Gains From Trade -- Gains and Losses from Imports -- Gains and Losses from Exports -- Checkpoint 9.2 -- 9.3 International Trade Restrictions -- Tariffs -- Import Quotas -- Other Import Barriers -- Export Subsidies -- Checkpoint 9.3 -- 9.4 The Case Against Protection -- Three Traditional Arguments for Protection -- Four Newer Arguments for Protection -- Why Is International Trade Restricted? -- Checkpoint 9.4 -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter Checkpoint -- EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY: U.S. Exports and Imports -- EYE on GLOBALIZATION: Who Wins and Who Loses from Globalization? -- EYE on the PAST: The History of U.S. Tariffs -- EYE on YOUR LIFE: International Trade -- Part 4 Market Failure and Public Policy -- Chapter 10 Externalities -- Chapter Checklist -- Externalities in Our Daily Lives -- Negative Production Externalities -- Positive Production Externalities -- Negative Consumption Externalities -- Positive Consumption Externalities -- 10.1 Negative Externalities: Pollution -- Private Costs and Social Costs -- Production and Pollution: How Much? -- Establish Property Rights -- Mandate Clean Technology -- Tax or Cap and Price Pollution -- Checkpoint 10.1."]
[{"$nulls":4},"10.2 Positive Externalities: Education."]
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