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Designed for one-semester use, this innovative, principles-level text takes a broad 'contextual' approach to economics - including serious consideration of ecological, feminist, and social concerns - while still including coverage of the standard microeconomic concepts and models. Unlike most microeconomics textbooks, which focus exclusively on markets and efficiency, this book starts with the question of human well-being and then examines how economic activities can contribute to, or detract from, well-being. It addresses such critical concerns as ecological sustainability, distributional equality, the quality of employment, and the adequacy of living standards.Like its companion volume, "Macroeconomics in Context", this text includes discussions of historical, institutional, political, and social factors that encourage students to engage with the subject matter. An Instructor's Resource Manual, Test Bank, and Student Study Guide are available on the authors' website for instructors who adopt the text.
| ISBN | 0765623013 | | Pages | 560 | | ISBN13 | 9780765623010
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | M.E. Sharpe | | Weight (grammes) | 957 | | Imprint | M.E. Sharpe | | Published in | Armonk, NY | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 231 | | Publication date | 15 Aug 2008 | | Width (mm) | 190 | | Library of Congress | 2008009886 | | Spine width (mm) | 30 | | DEWEY | 338.5 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| Pt. 1 | | The Context for Economic Analysis | | 3 | | Ch. 1 | | Economic Activity in Context | | 3 | | Ch. 2 | | Economic Actors and Organizations | | 32 | | Pt. 2 | | Supply and Demand | | 55 | | Ch. 3 | | Market Institutions | | 55 | | Ch. 4 | | Supply and Demand | | 77 | | Ch. 5 | | Working with Supply and Demand | | 112 | | Pt. 3 | | Resource Maintenance, Production, Distribution, and Consumption | | 137 | | Ch. 6 | | Capital Stocks and Resource Maintenance | | 137 | | Ch. 7 | | Production Costs | | 158 | | Ch. 8 | | Production Decisions | | 188 | | Ch. 9 | | Distribution: Exchange and Transfer | | 216 | | Ch. 10 | | Consumption and the Consumer Society | | 251 | | Pt. 4 | | A Closer Look at Markets | | 287 | | Ch. 11 | | Markets Without Market Power | | 287 | | Ch. 12 | | Markets with Market Power | | 306 | | Ch. 13 | | Markets as Labor | | 331 | | Ch. 14 | | Markets for Other Resources | | 359 | | Pt. 5 | | A Closer Look at Economic Organizations | | 383 | | Ch. 15 | | The Core Sphere: Households and Communities | | 383 | | Ch. 16 | | The Business Sphere: For-Profit Firms | | 403 | | Ch. 17 | | The Public Purpose Sphere: Governments and Nonprofits | | 429 | | Pt. 6 | | Economic Outcomes and Economic Ideology | | 457 | | Ch. 18 | | The Variety of Economic Systems | | 457 | | Ch. 19 | | Market Systems and Normative Claims | | 477 | | | | Glossary | | 495 | | | More... | | |
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