Steve Slavin's lively and comprehensive Economics has a
student-friendly, step-by-step approach; value pricing; and a built-in Workbook/Study
Guide. Instructors and students like the author's humorous anecdotes, direct language, and
easy conversational style. The text encourages active rather than passive reading.
Table of Contents
1 A brief economic history of the united states
2 Resource utilization
3 Supply and demand
4 The mixed economy
5The household-consumption sector
6 The business-investment sector
7 The government sector
8 The export-import sector
9 Gross domestic product
10 Economic fluctuations, unemployment, and inflation
11 Classical and keynesian economics
12 Fiscal policy and the national debt
13 Money and banking
14 The federal reserve and monetary policy
15 A century of economic theory
16 Economic growth and productivity
17 Demand, supply, and equilibrium
18 The elasticities of demand and supply
19 The theory of consumer behavior
20 Cost
21 Profit, loss, and perfect competition
22 Monopoly
23 Monopolistic competition
24 Oligopoly
25 Corporate mergers and antitrust
26 Demand in the factor market
27 Labor unions
28 Labor markets and wage rates
29 Rent, interest, and profit
30 Income distribution and poverty
31 International trade
32 International finance
Paperback, 833 pages