01559nam a22001937a 4500 140717b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780321423580 HB171.5.R43 Riddell,Tom Economics: a tool for critically understanding society. / Riddell Tom Boston: Pearson, 2008 xxviii,585p.: ill.; 24cm. Includes glossary and index Contents: Economics as a social science -- Exploring the emerging global economy -- The evolution of economic systems -- Adam Smith,classical liberalism,and the division of labor -- Karl marx and the socialist critique of capitalism -- The rise and fall of laissez-faire in the U.S economy -- Scarcity:''you can't always get what you want'' -- The theory of markets -- Perfect competition and efficiency -- Noncompetitive markets and inefficiency -- Resource markets and the distrubution of income -- Corporation and labor union -- The economic role of government -- Macroeconomics:issue and problems -- Macroeconomic -- Macroeconomic theory:classical and Keynesian models -- Fiscal policy:government spending and taxation -- Financial markets,money,and monetary policy -- Aggregate demand and aggregate supply -- Unemployment,inflation,and stabilization policy in a global economy -- Internation trade and interdependence -- Internation finance -- The economics of developing nations -- Economies in transition Shackelford,Jean Schneider,Geoffrey Stamos,Steve lcc BK 3159 10659 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 GEN 2014-07-17 1 HB171.5.R43 7622/49/14 2014-08-06 00:00:00 2014-08-06 1 2014-07-17 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 GEN 2014-07-17 1 HB171.5.R431 7623/50/14 2014-08-06 00:00:00 2014-08-06 2 2014-07-17 BK