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Business System Management and Engineering [[electronic resource] ] : From Open Issues to Applications / / edited by Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Ernesto Damiani, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Michele Missikoff, Michael Parkin
| Business System Management and Engineering [[electronic resource] ] : From Open Issues to Applications / / edited by Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Ernesto Damiani, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Michele Missikoff, Michael Parkin |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2012.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 197 p. 60 illus.) |
| Disciplina | 658.4/038011 |
| Collana | Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI |
| Soggetto topico |
Application software
Management information systems Computer science E-commerce Software engineering Computer security Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet) Management of Computing and Information Systems e-Commerce/e-business Software Engineering Systems and Data Security |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Conference proceedings. |
| ISBN | 3-642-32439-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996465438103316 |
| Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2012 | ||
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Foundations of economics / / Robin Bade, Michael Parkin
| Foundations of economics / / Robin Bade, Michael Parkin |
| Autore | Bade Robin |
| Edizione | [Seventh edition, Global edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston : , : Pearson, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (978 pages) : color illustrations, charts tables |
| Disciplina | 330 |
| Collana | Always Learning |
| Soggetto topico | Economics |
| ISBN | 1-292-01900-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 -- Apendix: 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 -- Apendix 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 the Information Economy -- Eye on the Dreamliner: Who Makes the Dreamliner?.
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 Oportunity 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. 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 A llocation 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 -- Checkpoint 6.3 -- 6.4 Are Markets Efficient?. 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 A re 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. 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 Congres: 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. 10.2 Positive Externalities: Education. |
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Foundations of macroeconomics / / Robin Bade, Michael Parkin
| Foundations of macroeconomics / / Robin Bade, Michael Parkin |
| Autore | Bade Robin |
| Edizione | [Seventh edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston : , : Pearson, , [2015] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (572 pages) |
| Disciplina | 339 |
| Collana | Always Learning |
| Soggetto topico |
Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics - Study and teaching |
| ISBN | 1-292-01902-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 -- Apendix 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 the Information Economy -- EYE on the DREAMLINER: Who Makes the Dreamliner?.
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 -- Changes in Demand -- Illustrating Changes in Buying Plans -- Checkpoint 4.1 -- 4.2 Supply -- The Law of Supply -- Supply Schedule and Supply Curve -- Changes in Supply -- Illustrating a Change in Selling Plans -- 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 -- Effects of Changes in Both Demand and Supply -- Checkpoint 4.3 -- 4.4 Price Rigidities -- Price Floor. Price Ceiling or Price Cap -- Sticky Price -- Checkpoint 4.4 -- 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 -- EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY: The Federal Minimum Wage -- Part 2 Monitoring the Macroeconomy -- Chapter 5 GDP: A Measure of Total Production and Income -- Chapter Checklist -- 5.1 GDP, Income, and Expenditure -- GDP Defined -- Circular Flows in the U.S. Economy -- Expenditure Equals Income -- Checkpoint 5.1 -- 5.2 Measuring U.S. GDP -- The Expenditure Approach -- The Income Approach -- GDP and Related Measures of Production and Income -- Real GDP and Nominal GDP -- Calculating Real GDP -- Using the Real GDP Numbers -- Checkpoint 5.2 -- 5.3 The Uses and Limitations of Real GDP -- The Standard of Living Over Time -- Tracking the Course of the Business Cycle -- The Standard of Living Among Countries -- Goods and Services Omitted from GDP -- Other Influences on the Standard of Living -- Checkpoint 5.3 -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter Checkpoint -- Appendix: Measuring Real GDP -- The Problem With Base-Year Prices -- Value Production in the Prices of Adjacent Years -- Apendix Checkpoint -- EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY: Is a Computer Program an Intermediate Good or a Final Good? -- EYE on the BOOMS AND BUSTS: How Do We Track the Booms and Busts of our Economy? -- EYE on YOUR LIFE: Making GDP Personal -- EYE on the GLOBAL ECONOMY: Which Country Has the Highest Standard of Living? -- Chapter 6 Jobs and Unemployment -- Chapter Checklist -- 6.1 Labor Market Indicators -- Current Population Survey -- Population Survey Criteria -- Two Main Labor Market Indicators -- Alternative Measures of Unemployment -- Checkpoint 6.1 -- 6.2 Labor Market Trends and Fluctuations -- Unemployment Rate. The Participation Rate -- Alternative Measures of Unemployment -- A Closer Look at Part-Time Employment -- Checkpoint 6.2 -- 6.3 Unemployment and Full Employment -- Frictional Unemployment -- Structural Unemployment -- Cyclical Unemployment -- "Natural" Unemployment -- Unemployment and Real GDP -- Checkpoint 6.3 -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter Checkpoint -- EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY: The Current Population Survey -- EYE on the GLOBAL ECONOMY: Unemployment Around the World -- EYE on the GLOBAL ECONOMY: Women in the Labor Force -- EYE on the UNEMPLOYED: How Long Does it Take to Find a Job? -- EYE on YOUR LIFE: Your Labor Market Status and Activity -- Chapter 7 The CPI and the Cost of Living -- Chapter Checklist -- 7.1 The Consumer Price Index -- Reading the CPI Numbers -- Constructing the CPI -- The CPI Market Basket -- The Monthly Price Survey -- Calculating the CPI -- Measuring Inflation and Deflation -- Checkpoint 7.1 -- 7.2 The CPI and Other Price Level Measures -- Sources of Bias in the CPI -- The Magnitude of the Bias -- Two Consequences of the CPI Bias -- Alternative Measures of the Price Level and Inflation Rate -- Checkpoint 7.2 -- 7.3 Nominal and Real Values -- Dollars and Cents at Different Dates -- Nominal and Real Values in Macroeconomics -- Nominal GDP and Real GDP -- Nominal Wage Rate and Real Wage Rate -- Nominal Interest Rate and Real Interest Rate -- Checkpoint 7.3 -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter Checkpoint -- EYE on the PAST: 700 Years of Inflation and Deflation -- EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY: Deflating the GDP Balloon -- EYE on the PAST: The Nominal and Real Wage Rates of Presidents of the United States -- EYE on Box Ofice Hits Which Movie Really Was the Biggest Box Office Hit? -- EYE on YOUR LIFE: A Student's CPI -- Part 3 The Real Economy -- Chapter 8 Potential GDP and the Natural Unemployment Rate -- Chapter Checklist. Macroeconomic Approaches and Pathways -- The Three Main Schools of Thought -- Today's Consensus -- The Road Ahead -- 8.1 Potential GDP -- The Production Function -- The Labor Market -- Checkpoint 8.1 -- 8.2 The Natural Unemployment Rate -- Job Search -- Job Rationing -- Checkpoint 8.2 -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter Checkpoint -- EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY: The Lucas Wedge and the Okun Gap -- EYE on the GLOBAL ECONOMY: Potential GDP in the United States and European Union -- EYE on U.S. POTENTIAL GDP: Why Do Americans Earn More and Produce More Than Europeans? -- EYE on the PAST: Average Unemployment Rates over Six Decades -- EYE on the GLOBAL ECONOMY: Unemployment Benefits and the Natural Unemployment Rate -- EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY: The Federal Minimum Wage -- EYE on YOUR LIFE: Natural Unemployment -- Chapter 9 Economic Growth -- Chapter Checklist -- 9.1 The Basics of Economic Growth -- Calculating Growth Rates -- The Magic of Sustained Growth -- Checkpoint 9.1 -- 9.2 Labor Productivity Growth -- Labor Productivity -- Saving and Investment in Physical Capital -- Expansion of Human Capital and Discovery of New Technologies -- Combined Influences Bring Labor Productivity Growth -- Checkpoint 9.2 -- 9.3 Economic Growth Theories: Old and New -- Old Growth Theory -- New Growth Theory -- Checkpoint 9.3 -- 9.4 Achieving Faster Growth -- Preconditions for Economic Growth -- Policies to Achieve Faster Growth -- How Much Difference Can Policy Make? -- Checkpoint 9.4 -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter Checkpoint -- EYE on the PAST: How Fast Has Real GDP per Person Grown? -- EYE on the U.S. ECONOMY: U.S. Labor Productivity Growth Since 1960 -- EYE on YOUR LIFE: How You Influence and Are Influenced by Economic Growth -- EYE on RICH AND POOR NATIONS: Why Are Some Nations Rich and Others Poor? -- Chapter 10 Finance, Saving, and Investment -- Chapter Checklist. 10.1 Financial Institutions and Markets. |
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Foundations of microeconomics / / Robin Bade, Michael Parkin
| Foundations of microeconomics / / Robin Bade, Michael Parkin |
| Autore | Bade Robin |
| Edizione | [Seventh edition, global edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston : , : Pearson, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (599 pages) : color illustrations, tables, graphs, photographs |
| Disciplina | 338.5 |
| Collana | Always Learning |
| Soggetto topico | Microeconomics |
| ISBN | 1-292-01905-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 the Information Economy -- EYE on the DREAMLINER: Who Makes the Dreamliner?.
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. 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 -- Checkpoint 6.3 -- 6.4 Are Markets Efficient?. 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. 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. 10.2 Positive Externalities: Education. |
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| Boston : , : Pearson, , 2015 | ||
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Service Research Challenges and Solutions for the Future Internet [[electronic resource] ] : S-Cube - Towards Engineering, Managing and Adapting Service-Based Systems / / edited by M. Papazoglou, Klaus Pohl, Michael Parkin, Andreas Metzger
| Service Research Challenges and Solutions for the Future Internet [[electronic resource] ] : S-Cube - Towards Engineering, Managing and Adapting Service-Based Systems / / edited by M. Papazoglou, Klaus Pohl, Michael Parkin, Andreas Metzger |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2010.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XVIII, 374 p. 55 illus.) |
| Disciplina | 005.3 |
| Collana | Computer Communication Networks and Telecommunications |
| Soggetto topico |
Computer engineering
Application software Computer communication systems Software engineering Computer logic Artificial intelligence Computer Engineering Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet) Computer Communication Networks Software Engineering Logics and Meanings of Programs Artificial Intelligence |
| ISBN |
1-280-39069-7
9786613568618 3-642-17599-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The S-Cube Research Vision -- Business Process Management -- Service Composition -- Architectures & Infrastructure -- Adaptation of Service-Based Systems -- Modeling and Negotiating Service Quality -- Analytical Quality Assurance -- Service Engineering -- Architecture Views Illustrating the Service Automation Aspect of SOA. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996466008403316 |
| Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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