Economics / / Daron Acemoglu, David Laibson, and John List

• Autore: Acemoglu Daron
• Pubblicazione: Harlow, England : , : Pearson Education Limited, , 2016; ©2016
• Edizione: Global edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (793 pages) : illustrations (some color)
• Disciplina: 330
• Soggetto topico: Economics
• Persona (resp. second.): DavidLaibson; ListJohn <1925-2008, >
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Part I Introduction to Economics -- Chapter 1: The Principles and Practice of Economics -- 1.1 The Scope of Economics -- Economic Agents and Economic Resources -- Definition of Economics -- Positive Economics and Normative Economics -- Microeconomics and Macroeconomics -- 1.2 Three Principles of Economics -- 1.3 The First Principle of Economics: Optimization -- Trade-offs and Budget Constraints -- Opportunity Cost -- Cost-Benefit Analysis -- Evidence-Based Economics: Is Facebook free? -- 1.4 The Second Principle of Economics: Equilibrium -- The Free-Rider Problem -- 1.5 The Third Principle of Economics: Empiricism -- 1.6 Is Economics Good for You? -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Questions -- Problems -- Chapter 2: Economic Methods and Economic Questions -- 2.1 The Scientific Method -- Models and Data -- An Economic Model -- Evidence-Based Economics: How much more do workers with a college education earn? -- Means -- Argument by Anecdote -- 2.2 Causation and Correlation -- The Red Ad Campaign Blues -- Causation versus Correlation -- Experimental Economics and Natural Experiments -- Evidence-Based Economics: How much do wages increase when an individual is compelled by law to get an extra year of schooling? -- 2.3 Economic Questions and Answers -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Questions -- Problems -- Appendix: Constructing and Interpreting Graphs -- A Study About Incentives -- Experimental Design -- Describing Variables -- Cause and Effect -- Appendix Key Terms -- Appendix Problems -- Chapter 3: Optimization: Doing the Best You Can -- 3.1 Two Kinds of Optimization: A Matter of Focus -- Choice & Consequence: Do People Really Optimize? -- 3.2 Optimization in Levels -- Comparative Statics -- 3.3 Optimization in Differences: Marginal Analysis -- Marginal Cost. ; Evidence-Based Economics: How does location affect the rental cost of housing? -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Questions -- Problems -- Chapter 4: Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium -- 4.1 Markets -- Competitive Markets -- 4.2 How Do Buyers Behave? -- Demand Curves -- Willingness to Pay -- From Individual Demand Curves to Aggregated Demand Curves -- Building the Market Demand Curve -- Shifting the Demand Curve -- Evidence-Based Economics: How much more gasoline would people buy if its price were lower? -- 4.3 How Do Sellers Behave? -- Supply Curves -- Willingness to Accept -- From the Individual Supply Curve to the Market Supply Curve -- Shifting the Supply Curve -- 4.4 Supply and Demand in Equilibrium -- Curve Shifting in Competitive Equilibrium -- 4.5 What Would Happen If the Government Tried to Dictate the Price of Gasoline? -- Choice & Consequence: The Unintended Consequences of Fixing Market Prices -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Questions -- Problems -- Part II Foundations of Microeconomics -- Chapter 5: Consumers and Incentives -- 5.1 The Buyer's Problem -- What You Like -- Prices of Goods and Services -- Choice & Consequence: Absolutes vs. Percentages -- How Much Money You Have to Spend -- 5.2 Putting It All Together -- Price Changes -- Income Changes -- 5.3 From the Buyer's Problem to the Demand Curve -- 5.4 Consumer Surplus -- An Empty Feeling: Loss in Consumer Surplus When Price Increases -- Evidence-Based Economics: Would a smoker quit the habit for 100 per month? -- 5.5 Demand Elasticities -- The Price Elasticity of Demand -- Moving Up and Down the Demand Curve -- Elasticity Measures -- Determinants of the Price Elasticity of Demand -- The Cross-Price Elasticity of Demand -- The Income Elasticity of Demand -- Letting the Data Speak: Should McDonald's Be Interested in Elasticities? -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Questions -- Problems. ; Appendix: Representing Preferences with Indifference Curves: Another Use of the Budget Constraint -- Appendix Questions -- Appendix Key Terms -- Chapter 6: Sellers and Incentives -- 6.1 Sellers in a Perfectly Competitive Market -- 6.2 The Seller's Problem -- Making the Goods: How Inputs Are Turned into Outputs -- The Cost of Doing Business: Introducing Cost Curves -- Choice & Consequence: Average Cost Versus Marginal Cost -- The Rewards of Doing Business: Introducing Revenue Curves -- Putting It All Together: Using the Three Components to Do the Best You Can -- Choice & Consequence: Maximizing Total Profit, Not Per-Unit Profit -- 6.3 From the Seller's Problem to the Supply Curve -- Price Elasticity of Supply -- Shutdown -- 6.4 Producer Surplus -- 6.5 From the Short Run to the Long Run -- Long-Run Supply Curve -- Choice & Consequence: Visiting a Car Manufacturing Plant -- 6.6 From the Firm to the Market: Long-Run Competitive Equilibrium -- Firm Entry -- Firm Exit -- Zero Profits in the Long Run -- Economic Profit versus Accounting Profit -- Evidence-Based Economics: How would an ethanol subsidy affect ethanol producers? -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Questions -- Problems -- Appendix: When Firms Have Different Cost Structures -- Chapter 7: Perfect Competition and the Invisible Hand -- 7.1 Perfect Competition and Efficiency -- Social Surplus -- Pareto Efficiency -- 7.2 Extending the Reach of the Invisible Hand: From the Individual to the Firm -- 7.3 Extending the Reach of the Invisible Hand: Allocation of Resources Across Industries -- 7.4 Prices Guide the Invisible Hand -- Deadweight Loss -- The Command Economy -- Choice & Consequence: FEMA and Walmart After Katrina -- The Central Planner -- Choice & Consequence: Command and Control at Kmart -- 7.5 Equity and Efficiency. ; Evidence-Based Economics: Can markets composed of only self-interested people maximize the overall well-being of society? -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Questions -- Problems -- Chapter 8: Trade -- 8.1 The Production Possibilities Curve -- Calculating Opportunity Cost -- 8.2 The Basis for Trade: Comparative Advantage -- Specialization -- Absolute Advantage -- Choice & Consequence: An Experiment on Comparative Advantage -- The Price of the Trade -- 8.3 Trade Between States -- Choice & Consequence: Should LeBron James Paint His Own House? -- Economy-Wide PPC -- Comparative Advantage and Specialization Among States -- 8.4 Trade Between Countries -- Determinants of Trade Between Countries -- Letting the Data Speak: Fair Trade Products -- Exporting Nations: Winners and Losers -- Importing Nations: Winners and Losers -- Where Do World Prices Come From? -- Determinants of a Country's Comparative Advantage -- 8.5 Arguments Against Free Trade -- National Security Concerns -- Fear of Globalization -- Environmental and Resource Concerns -- Infant Industry Arguments -- The Effects of Tariffs -- Evidence-Based Economics: Will free trade cause you to lose your job? -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Questions -- Problems -- Chapter 9: Externalities and Public Goods -- 9.1 Externalities -- A "Broken" Invisible Hand: Negative Externalities -- A "Broken" Invisible Hand: Positive Externalities -- Choice & Consequence: Positive Externalities in Spots You Never Imagined -- Pecuniary Externalities -- 9.2 Private Solutions to Externalities -- Private Solution: Bargaining -- The Coase Theorem -- Private Solution: Doing the Right Thing -- 9.3 Government Solutions to Externalities -- Government Regulation: Command-and-Control Policies -- Government Regulation: Market-Based Approaches -- Corrective Taxes and Subsidies -- Letting the Data Speak: How To Value Externalities. ; Letting the Data Speak: Pay As You Throw: Consumers Create Negative Externalities Too! -- 9.4 Public Goods -- Government Provision of Public Goods -- Choice & Consequence: The Free-Rider's Dilemma -- Private Provision of Public Goods -- 9.5 Common Pool Resource Goods -- Choice & Consequence: Tragedy of the Commons -- Choice & Consequence: The Race to Fish -- Evidence-Based Economics: How can the Queen of England lower her commute time to Wembley Stadium? -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Questions -- Problems -- Chapter 10: The Government in the Economy: Taxation and Regulation -- 10.1 Taxation and Government Spending in the United States -- Where Does the Money Come From? -- Why Does the Government Tax and Spend? -- Letting the Data Speak: Understanding Federal Income Tax Brackets -- Taxation: Tax Incidence and Deadweight Losses -- Choice & Consequence: The Deadweight Loss Depends on the Tax -- 10.2 Regulation -- Direct Regulation -- 10.3 Government Failures -- The Direct Costs of Bureaucracies -- Corruption -- Underground Economy -- 10.4 Equity Versus Efficiency -- 10.5 Consumer Sovereignty and Paternalism -- The Debate -- Evidence-Based Economics: What is the optimal size of government? -- Letting the Data Speak: The Efficiency of Government Versus Privately Run Expeditions -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Questions -- Problems -- Chapter 11: Markets for Factors of Production -- 11.1 The Competitive Labor Market -- The Demand for Labor -- 11.2 The Supply of Labor: Your Labor-Leisure Trade-off -- Choice & Consequence: Producing Web Sites and Computer Programs -- Labor Market Equilibrium: Supply Meets Demand -- Letting the Data Speak: "Get Your Hot Dogs Here!" -- Labor Demand Shifters -- Labor Supply Shifters -- Letting the Data Speak: Do Wages Really Go Down if Labor Supply Increases? -- 11.3 Wage Inequality -- Differences in Human Capital. ; Differences in Compensating Wage Differentials.
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• Titolo autorizzato: Economics
• ISBN: 1-292-07921-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154767303321
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