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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Contemporary economics</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Howard, Willard W. Willard W. Howard</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>D. C. Heath &amp; Company</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1971</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>537 p.:  ill. (part col.);  26 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: I: The Foundations of economic analysis: Economics and economic welfare: -- Production, distribution, and welfare -- Supply and demand: the bare elements -- The Market economy and comparative economic organization -- Measuring production: the national income accounting system and input-output economics -- The Public sector and economic welfare -- Financing the public sector: taxation -- II: The Level of economic activity and public policy: Economic growth and instability: the historical record and national goals -- The Monetary system and the level of economic activity -- The Federal reserve and monetary policy -- Total demand and the level of economic activity -- Total demand, unemployment, and inflation -- Fiscal policies for stabilization and growth -- Monetary and fiscal policies: past, present, and future -- Government financial accounting and the economic of public debt -- III: Markets, the composition and distribution of output, and public policy: Supply and demand analysis: some extensions -- Markets,the composition and distribution of output, and public policy: Supply and demand analysis: some extensions -- Market structures,cost and supply -- Perfect competition, market imperfections, and economic welfare -- Regulation of business: the ambivalent role of government -- The Agricultural economy</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Willard W. Howard</note>
  <note>Includes index</note>
  <classification authority="lcc">HB171.5 .H74</classification>
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