Throughout Economics, authors Daron Acemoglu, David Laibson, and John List use real economic questions and data to help students learn about the world around them. Taking a fresh approach, the authors use the themes of optimization, equilibrium and empiricism to illustrate the power of simple economic ideas, and their ability to explain, predict, and improve what happens in the world. Each chapter begins with an empirical question that is later answered using data in the Evidence-Based Economics feature. As a result of the text’s practical emphasis, students will learn to apply economic principles to guide the decisions they make in their own lives.
Table of Contents:
I. Introduction to Economics
1. The Principles and Practice of Economics
2. Economic Methods and Economic Questions
3. Optimization: Doing the Best You Can
4. Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium
II. Foundations of Microeconomics
5. Consumers and Incentives
6. Sellers and Incentives
7. Perfect Competition and the Invisible Hand
8. Trade
9. Externalities and Public Goods
10. The Government in the Economy: Taxation and Regulation
11. Markets for Factors of Production
III. Market Structure
12. Monopoly
13. Game Theory and Strategic Play
14. Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition
IV. Extending the Microeconomic Toolbox
15. Trade-offs Involving Time and Risk
16. The Economics of Information
17. Auctions and Bargaining
18. Social Economics
V. Introduction to Macroeconomics
19. The Wealth of Nations: Defining and Measuring Macroeconomic Aggregates
20. Aggregate Incomes
VI. Long-Run Growth and Development
21. Economic Growth
22. Why Isn't the Whole World Developed?
VII. Equilibrium in the Macroeconomy
23. Employment and Unemployment
24. Credit Markets
25. The Monetary System
VIII. Short-Run Fluctuations and Macroeconomic Policy
26. Short-run Fluctuations
27. Countercyclical Macroeconomic Policy
IX. Macroeconomics in a Global Economy
28. Macroeconomics and International Trade
29. Open Economy Macroeconomics
About the Author
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Laibson, Harvard University
John List, University of Chicago
