02344nam a22002177a 4500 OSt 20220119152100.0 140620b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0673381943 LC HB171.5.B99 Byrns, Ralph T. Economics. / Ralph T. Byrns, Gerald W. Stone 4th ed. London: Scott, Foreman, 1989. 846 p.: ill.; Includes index. Contents: 1. Foundations of economics: Scarcity and choice -- Resolving the problem of scarcity -- Demand and supply -- Markets and equilibrium -- Economic institutions: households, firms and government -- 2. Measuring economic performance: Unemployment and inflation -- Gross National Product (GNP) -- Keynesian macroeconomics: Macroeconomics before Keynes -- Aggregate expenditures: consumption, Government and foreign spending -- Equilibrium level of output, employment and income -- Fiscal policy: Government taxing and spending -- 4. Money, monetary theory and monetary policy: Money and its creation -- The Federal reserve system and financial institutions -- Monetary theory and policy -- Financing Government: deficits and public debt -- 5. Challenges to macroeconomic policy-making: Aggregate demand and supply -- The Policymaker's dilemma -- Limitations of stabilization policy -- Economic growth and development -- 6. Core concepts of microeconomics: Elasticity and marginalism -- The Foundations of consumer choice -- Foundations of producer decision making -- 7. The Structure of product markets: The Competitive ideal -- Monopoly -- Monopolistic competition and oligopoly -- Antitrust policy: reducing monopoly power -- The Role of Government regulation -- 8. Production and markets for resources: Wages and employment in competitive labor markets -- Labor markets: monopoly power, monopsony power and labor unions -- Rent, interest, profits and capitalization -- 9. The Microeconomics of Government policy: Market failures and public microeconomics -- Public choice -- Externalities and environmental economics -- The Economics of agriculture -- Redistribution of income and wealth -- 10. The International economy: International trade -- International finance -- Capitalism and its alternatives -- Stone, Gerald W. lcc BK 8443 15943 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-KL WIUC-KL GEN 2019-10-23 0 HB171.5.B99(4e) K/269/269/19 2022-01-19 00:00:00 1 2022-01-19 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-KL WIUC-KL GEN 2019-10-23 0 HB171.5.B991(4e) K/270/270/19 2022-01-19 00:00:00 2 2022-01-19 BK