Chisholm, Roger creator xxu Dallas Foresman and Company 1981 2nd ed. eng 806 p.: ill; 26 cm. Contents: What is economics -- The Economic problem -- The Free market: Supply and demand -- Government's role in the economy -- National income accounting -- Business cycles -- Aggregate demand -- Aggregate supply and equilibrium -- Fiscal policy -- Money and the banking system -- Commercial banks and the creation of money -- Non-bank financial intermediaries -- Demand for money -- Money supply and monetary policy -- Inflation -- Unemployment -- The Theory of growth -- Growth and less developed countries -- International trade -- International finance -- International financial commercial policies and institutions -- Consumer demand and utility -- Measuring and using elasticity of demand -- Supply elasticity and government policy -- Perfect competiton: Costs and production decisions in the short run -- Monopoly -- The Marginal productivity theory of resource allocation -- Employing labour resources: Unions, work and wages -- Employing land, capital and entrepreneurial resources -- Alternative economic systems. Roger Chisholm and Marilu McCarty Includes index. HB171.5.C629 0673154920 111214 20210414113906.0