Modern Principles: Macroeconomics by Tyler Cowen; Alex Tabarrok - Fifth Edition, 2021 from Macmillan Student Store

Modern Principles: Macroeconomics

Fifth  Edition©2021  Tyler Cowen; Alex Tabarrok

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Available for the first time with Macmillan's new online learning platform, Achieve, Modern Principles is a tour-de-force with a unique combination of vivid writing, up-to-date relevant examples, and online resources unlike any other textbook for this market.

Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok have long demonstrated their mastery at communicating economic principles in a clear, captivating way through their blog, The Marginal Revolution. And they are pioneers in online education. Their fully updated new edition has more high-quality material designed for online teaching than any other principles of economics textbook. Videos from Marginal Revolution University (MRU), Discovering Data questions, live links to FRED data, a digital textbook, and assessment all live under Macmillan's new learning platform, Achieve, and combine to provide an online learning product for all types of learners whether in face to face, hybrid or pure online classes.

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Table of Contents

Preface

1. The Big Ideas

2 The Power of Trade and Comparative Advantage

PART 1: Supply and Demand

3. Supply and Demand

4. Equilibrium

5 Price Ceilings and Floors

PART 2: Economic Growth

6. GDP and the Measurement of Progress

7. The Wealth of Nations and Economic Growth

8. Growth, Capital Accumulation, and the Economics of Ideas: Catching Up vs. the Cutting Edge

9. Saving, Investment, and the Financial System

10. Stock Markets and Personal Finance

PART 3: Business Fluctuations

11. Unemployment and Labor Force Participation

12. Inflation and the Quantity Theory of Money

13. Business Fluctuations: Aggregate Demand and Supply

14. Transmission and Amplification Mechanisms

PART 4: Macroeconomic Policy and Institutions

15. The Federal Reserve System and Open Market Operations

16. Monetary Policy

17. The Federal Budget: Taxes and Spending

18. Fiscal Policy

PART 5: International Economics

19. International Trade

20. International Finance

21. Political Economy and Public Choice

APPENDIX A Reading Graphs and Making Graphs

APPENDIX B Solutions to Check Yourself Questions


Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen is Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Director of the Mercatus Center and the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy. He is published widely in economics journals, including the American Economic Review and Journal of Political Economy. With Alex Tabarrok he co-writes the Marginal Revolution blog, often ranked as the #1 economics blog. He is also the author of Discover Your Inner Economist (Dutton, 2007) and numerous other books on economics. He writes regularly for the popular press on economics, including for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, and The Wilson Quarterly.  University web page: http://economics.gmu.edu/faculty/tcowen.html WATCH: Tyler Cowen at the Economic Bloggers Forum.

Alex Tabarrok

Alex Tabarrok is Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Tabarrok is co-author with Tyler Cowen of the popular economics blog, Marginal Revolution. His recent research looks at bounty hunters, judicial incentives and elections, crime control, patent reform, methods to increase the supply of human organs for transplant, and the regulation of pharmaceuticals. He is the editor of the books, Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science; The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society; and Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and The Control of Crime. His papers have appeared in the Journal of Law and Economics, Public Choice, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, The American Law and Economics Review, Kyklos and many other journals. His popular articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other magazines and newspapers.