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    <![CDATA[<strong></strong> Economics is a subject you <em>learn by doing. </em><strong>Foundations of Economics </strong>breaks the mold of a traditional text and becomes a practice-oriented learning system. Each chapter uses a Checklist to focus readers' attention on the most important key concepts. A discrete section introduces each of these core concepts and is immediately followed by a Checkpoint, a full page of practice that applies the concept. The result is a patient, confidence-building approach that prepares readers to <em>use</em> economics in their lives, regardless of what their future career will be.<br/><br/><strong></strong> <strong>Introduction: </strong>Getting Started; The U.S. and Global Economies; The Economic Problem; Demand and Supply. <strong>A Closer Look at Markets: </strong>Elasticities of Demand and Supply; Efficiency and Fairness of Markets. <strong>How Governments Influence the Economy: </strong>Markets in Action; Taxes; Global Markets in Action; Externalities; Public Goods and Common Resources. <strong>A Closer Look at Decision Makers:</strong> Consumer Choice and Demand; Production and Cost. <strong>Prices, Profits, and Industry Performance: </strong>Perfect Competition; Monopoly; Monopolistic Competition; Oligopoly <strong>Incomes, Uncertainty, and Inequality: </strong>Demand and Supply in Factor Markets; Uncertainty and Information; Inequality and Poverty. <strong>Monitoring the Macroeconomy: </strong>GDP and the Standard of Living; The CPI and the Cost of Living; Jobs and Unemployment. <strong>The Real Economy: </strong>Potential GDP and the Natural Unemployment Rate; Economic Growth; Investment, Saving, and the Real Interest Rate. <strong>The Money Economy: </strong>The Monetary System; Money, Interest, and Inflation. <strong>Economic Fluctuations: </strong><em>AS-AD </em>and the Business Cycle; Aggregate Expenditure; The Short-Run Policy Tradeoff. <strong>Macroeconomic Policy: </strong>Fiscal Policy; Monetary Policy; International Finance.<br/><br/><strong></strong> For all readers interested in economics.]]>
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