Economics, Global Edition + MyLab Economics with Pearson eText (Package)

List of contents

PART I: INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS
1. The Principles and Practice of Economics
2. Economic Science: Using Data and Models to Understand the World
3. Optimization: Trying to Do the Best You Can
4. Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium 

PART II: FOUNDATIONS OF MICROECONOMICS
5. Consumers and Incentives
6. Sellers and Incentives
7. Perfect Competition and the Invisible Hand
8. Trade
9. Externalities and Public Goods
10. The Government in the Economy: Taxation and Regulation
11. Markets for Factors of Production 

PART III: MARKET STRUCTURE
12. Monopoly
13. Game Theory and Strategic Play
14. Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition 

PART IV: EXTENDING THE MICROECONOMIC TOOLBOX
15. Trade-offs Involving Time and Risk
16. The Economics of Information
17. Auctions and Bargaining
18. Social Economics 

PART V INTRODUCTION TO MACROECONOMICS
19. The Wealth of Nations: Defining and Measuring MacroeconomicAggregates
20. Aggregate Incomes 

PART VI LONG-RUN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
21. Economic Growth
22. Why Isn't the Whole World Developed?

PART VII EQUILIBRIUM IN THE MACROECONOMY
23. Employment and Unemployment
24. Credit Markets
25. The Monetary System

PART VIII SHORT-RUN FLUCTUATIONS AND MACROECONOMIC POLICY
26. Short-Run Fluctuations
27. Countercyclical Macroeconomic Policy

PART IX MACROECONOMIC IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY
28. Macroeconomics and International Trade
29. Open Economy Macroeconomics

About the author

Daron Acemoglu is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has received a BA in economics from the University of York, an MSc in mathematical economics and econometrics from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics.
He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association, and the Society of Labor Economists. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the inaugural T. W. Schultz Prize from the University of Chicago in 2004, the inaugural Sherwin Rosen Award for outstanding contribution to labor economics in 2004, the Distinguished Science Award from the Turkish Sciences Association in 2006, and the John von Neumann Award, Rajk College, Budapest, in 2007.
On 14 October 2024, the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded jointly to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity. He was also the recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, awarded every two years to the best economist in the US under the age of 40 by the American Economic Association, and the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize, awarded every two years for work of lasting significance in economics. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Utrecht and Bosporus University.
His research interests include political economy, economic development and growth, human capital theory, growth theory, innovation, search theory, network economics, and learning.
His books include Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (jointly with James A. Robinson), which was awarded the Woodrow Wilson and the William Riker prizes, Introduction to Modern Economic Growth, and Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (jointly with James A. Robinson), which has become a New York Times bestseller.
David Laibson is the Chair of the Harvard Economics Department and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He holds degrees from Harvard University (AB in economics),the London School of Economics (MSc in econometrics and mathematical economics), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD in economics).
He is also a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he is Research Associate in the Asset Pricing, Economic Fluctuations, and Aging Working Groups. His research focuses on the topics of behavioral economics, intertemporal choice, macroeconomics, and household finance, and he leads Harvard Universitys Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative.
He serves on several editorial boards, as well as the Pension Research Council (Wharton), Harvards Pension Investment Committee, and the Board of the Russell Sage Foundation. He has previously served on the boards of the Health and Retirement Study (National Institutes of Health) and the Academic Research Council of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
He is a recipient of a Marshall Scholarship and a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a recipient of the T. W. Schultz Prize from the University of Chicago and the TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security. In recognition of his teaching excellence, he has been awarded Harvards Phi Beta Kappa Prize and a Harvard College Professorship.
John A. List is the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, and Chairman of the Department of Economics. He received his BS in economics from the University of WisconsinStevens Point and his PhD in economics from the University of Wyoming. Before joining the University of Chicago in 2005, he was a professor at the University of Central Florida, University of Arizona, and University of Maryland. He also served in the White House on the Council of Economic Advisers from 20022003 and is a Research Associate at the NBER.

Summary

Forcourses in the principles of economics.
An evidence-based approach to economics
Throughout Economics, 3rd Edition, authors DaronAcemoglu, David Laibson, and John List use real economic questions anddata to help you learn about the world around you. Taking a freshapproach, they use the themes of optimization, equilibrium, and empiricism tonot only illustrate the power of simple economic ideas, but also to explain andpredict what’s happening in today’s society. Each chapter begins with anempirical question that is relevant to the life of the reader, and islater answered using data in the Evidence-Based Economics feature. As a resultof the text’s practical emphasis, you learn to apply economicprinciples to guide the decisions you make in your own dailylife.

Product details

• Authors: Daron Acemoglu, David Laibson, John List
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Mixed media product
• Released: 25.01.2022
• EAN: 9781292411026
• ISBN: 978-1-292-41102-6
• Dimensions: 217 mm x 276 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 1784 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries