Cover: Economics, 7th Edition by Paul Krugman; Robin Wells

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Seventh  Edition©2024  Paul Krugman; Robin Wells

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Krugman/Wells helps you achieve economic understanding

Krugman and Wells explain the principles of  economics in a way that is both accessible and engaging. Drawing on current economic events, there is no one more effective than Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and co-author Robin Wells at helping readers understand the context of economics in their own lives. In this best-selling introductory textbook, Krugman and Wells’ signature storytelling style and uncanny eye for revealing examples will help you understand how economic concepts play out in your world.

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Table of Contents

Part 1: What is Economics?
Introduction: An Engine for Growth and Discovery
Chapter 1 First Principles
Chapter 2 Economic Models: Trade-offs and Trade
Appendix 2: Graphs in Economics
 
Part 2: Supply and Demand
Chapter 3 Supply and Demand
Chapter 4 Consumer and Producer Surplus
Chapter 5 Price Controls and Quotas: Meddling with Markets
Chapter 6 Elasticity
 
Part 3: Individuals and Markets
Chapter 7 Taxes
Chapter 8 International Trade
 
Part 4: Economics and Decision Making
Chapter 9 Decision Making by Individuals and Firms
Appendix 9: Toward a Fuller Understanding of Present Value
 
Part 5: Microeconomics and Public Policy
Chapter 10 Externalities
Chapter 11 Public Goods and Common Resources
Chapter 12 The Economics of the Welfare State
 
Part 6: The Consumer
Chapter 13 The Rational Consumer
Appendix 13: Consumer Preferences and Consumer Choice
 
Part 7: The Production Decision
Chapter 14 Behind the Supply Curve: Inputs and Costs
Chapter 15 Perfect Competition and the Supply Curve
 
Part 8: Market Structure: Beyond Perfect Competition
Chapter 16 Monopoly
Chapter 17 Oligopoly
Chapter 18 Monopolistic Competition and Product Differentiation
 
Part 9: Factor Markets and Risk
Chapter 19 Factor Markets and the Distribution of Income
Appendix 19: Indifference Curve Analysis of Labor Supply
Chapter 20 Uncertainty, Risk, and Private Information
 
Part 10: Introduction to Macroeconomics
Chapter 21 Macroeconomics: The Big Picture
Chapter 22 GDP and the CPI: Tracking the Macroeconomy
Chapter 23 Unemployment and Inflation
 
Part 11: Long-Run Economic Growth
Chapter 24 Long-Run Economic Growth
Chapter 25 Savings, Investment Spending, and the Financial System
 
Part 12: Short-Run Economic Fluctuations
Chapter 26 Income and Expenditure
Appendix 26: Deriving the Multiplier Algebraically
Chapter 27 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
 
Part 13: Stabilization Policy
Chapter 28 Fiscal Policy
Appendix 28: Taxes and the Multiplier
Chapter 29 Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve System
Chapter 30 Monetary Policy
Appendix 30: Reconciling the Two Models of the Interest Rate
Chapter 31 Inflation, Disinflation, and Deflation
 
Part 14: Events and Ideas
Chapter 32 Macroeconomics: Events and Ideas

Part 15: The Open Economy
Chapter 33 International Macroeconomics

Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman, recipient of the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, is a faculty member of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, associated with the Luxembourg Income Study, which tracks and analyzes income inequality around the world. Prior to that, he taught at Princeton University for 14 years. He received his Barroom Yale and his PhD from MIT. Before Princeton, he taught at Yale, Stanford, and MIT. He also spent a year on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers in 1982–1983. His research has included pathbreaking work on international trade, economic geography, and currency crises. In 1991, Krugman received the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark medal. In addition to his teaching and academic research, Krugman writes extensively for nontechnical audiences. He is a regular-ed columnist for the New York Times. His best-selling trade books include End This Depression Now!, The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, a history of recent economic troubles and their implications for economic policy, and The Conscience of a Liberal, a study of the political economy of economic inequality and its relationship with political polarization from the Gilded Age to the present. His earlier books, Peddling Prosperity and The Age of Diminished Expectations, have become modern classics.

Robin Wells

Robin Wells was a Lecturer and Researcher in Economics at Princeton University. She received her BA from the University of Chicago and her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley; she then did postdoctoral work at MIT. She has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Southampton (United Kingdom), Stanford, and MIT.