Foundations of Microeconomics

Author:   Robin Bade ,  Michael Parkin
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Edition:   8th edition
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9780134491981


Pages:   600
Publication Date:   30 March 2017
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For courses in Economics. An engaging, practice-oriented approach to understanding core economic principles Foundations of Microeconomics, 8th Edition introduces readers to the economic principles they can use to navigate the financial decisions of their futures. Each chapter concentrates on a manageable number of ideas, usually 3 to 4, with each reinforced several times throughout the text. This patient approach helps guide individuals through unfamiliar terrain and focus them on the most important concepts.   The text does four core things to help readers grasp and apply economic principles: it motivates with compelling issues and questions, focuses on core ideas, offers concise points, and encourages learning with activities and practice questions. After completing this text, readers will have the foundational knowledge of how the economy works and can apply it to their lives going forward.   Also available with MyLab Economics MyLab™ Economics is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLab Economics does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyLab Economics, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyLab Economics, search for:   0134668650 / 9780134668659 Foundations of Microeconomics Plus MyLab Economics with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package, 8/e   Package consists of: 013449198X / 9780134491981 Foundations of Microeconomics 013451842X / 9780134518428 MyLab Economics with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Foundations of Microeconomics  

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Author:   Robin Bade ,  Michael Parkin
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   8th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 27.60cm
Weight:   1.111kg
ISBN:  

9780134491981


ISBN 10:   013449198
Pages:   600
Publication Date:   30 March 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   9780135917725
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not available   Availability explained
This product is no longer available from the original publisher or manufacturer. There may be a chance that we can source it as a discontinued product.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction 1. Getting Started 2. The U.S. and Global Economies 3. The Economic Problem 4. Demand and Supply   Part 2: A Closer Look at Markets 5. Elasticities of Demand and Supply 6. Efficiency of Fairness and Markets   Part 3: How Governments Influence the Economy 7. Government Actions in Markets 8. Taxes 9. Global Markets in Action   Part 4: Market Failures and Public Policy 10. Externalities 11. Public Goods and Common Resources 12. Private Information and Healthcare Markets   Part 5: A Closer Look At Decision Makers 13. Consumer Choice and Demand 14. Production and Cost   Part 6: Prices, Profits, and Industry Performance 15. Perfect Competition 16. Monopoly 17. Monopolistic Competition 18. Oligopoly   Part 7: Incomes and Inequality 19. Markets for Factors of Production 20. Economic Inequality  

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Robin Bade was an undergraduate at the University of Queensland, Australia, where she earned degrees in mathematics and economics. After a spell teaching high school math and physics, she enrolled in the PhD program at the Australian National University, from which she graduated from in 1970. She has held faculty appointments at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, at Bond University in Australia, and at the Universities of Manitoba, Toronto, and Western Ontario in Canada. Her research on international capital flows appears in the International Economic Review and the Economic Record. Robin first taught the principles of economics course in 1970 and has taught it (alongside intermediate macroeconomics and international trade and finance) most years since then. She developed many of the ideas found in this text while conducting tutorials with her students at the University of Western Ontario.   Michael Parkin studied economics in England and began his university teaching career immediately after graduating with a BA from the University of Leicester. He learned the subject on the job at the University of Essex, England’s most exciting new university of the 1960s, and at the age of 30 became one of the youngest full professors. He is a past president of the Canadian Economics Association and has served on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and the Journal of Monetary Economics. His research on macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international economics has resulted in more than 160 publications in journals and edited volumes, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. He is author of the best-selling textbook, Economics (Pearson), now in its 12th Edition. Robin and Michael are a wife-and-husband team. Their most notable joint research created the Bade-Parkin Index of central bank independence and spawned a vast amount of research on that topic. They don’t claim credit for the independence of the new European Central Bank, but its constitution and the movement toward greater independence of central banks around the world were aided by their pioneering work. Their joint textbooks include Macroeconomics (Prentice-Hall), Modern Macroeconomics (Pearson Education Canada), and Economics: Canada in the Global Environment, the Canadian adaptation of Parkin, Economics (Addison-Wesley). They are dedicated to the challenge of explaining economics ever more clearly to a growing body of students. Music, the theater, art, walking on the beach, and five grandchildren provide their relaxation and fun.  

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