01893nam a22001697a 4500 111124t xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0393961109 HB171.5.S884 Stiglitz, Joseph E. Economics. / Joseph E. Stiglitz. New York : W.W. Norton and Company, 1993. xli, 1142 + various pagings : col. ill. ; 26 cm. Includes glossary and index. Contents: Part one: Introduction: The automobile and economics -- Thinking like an economist -- Exchange and production -- Demand, supply, and prices -- Using demand and supply -- Time and risk -- The public sector -- Part two: Perfect markets: The consumption decision -- The savings decision -- A student's guide to investing -- The labor supply decision -- Production decision -- Competitive equilibrium -- Part three: Imperfect markets: Monopolies and imperfect competition -- Oligopolies -- Government policies toward competition -- Technological change -- Imperfect information in the product market -- Imperfections in the labor market -- Financing and controlling the firm -- Managing the firm -- Externalities, merits goods, public decision making -- Taxation and redistribution -- Part four: Aggregate markets: Macroeconomic goals and measures --An overview of macroeconomics -- The aggregate labor market -- Aggregate demand -- Consumption and investment -- Government expenditures and trade -- Aggregate demand and supply -- Sticky prices -- Part five: Money's role: Money, banking, and credit -- Monetary theory and policy -- -- Monetary policy: the international side -- price stability -- Part six: Policies for growth and stability: Growth and productivity -- The problem of the twin deficits -- Differing approaches to macroeconomic policy -- Alternative economic systems -- Development. Economics. lcc BK 295 7795 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 GEN 2011-11-24 0 HB171.5.S884 878/11 2011-11-24 00:00:00 1 2011-11-24 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 GEN 2011-11-24 0 HB171.5.S8841 879/11 2011-11-24 00:00:00 2 2011-11-24 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 GEN 2011-11-24 0 HB171.5.S8842 880/11 2011-11-24 00:00:00 3 2011-11-24 BK