Features
- Five types of boxed examples–international, policy, e-commerce, international policy, and daily life–are based on current topics that students want to read. This edition's boxed examples feature current issues such as how the presence of illegal aliens affects U.S. employment statistics and the costs and benefits of alternative pollution abatement efforts.
- The beginning of each chapter gives students a quick snapshot of a relevant issue. The chapter then ends with an Issues and Applications section that explores that same issue in depth using the economic concepts from that chapter. By beginning and ending each chapter with this feature, Issues and Applications provides a coherent framework to enhance learning in each chapter.
- The balance of Keynesian and Classical analysis gives instructors the flexibility to teach the models and schools of thought they want to include in their course.
- Exposure to the global economy is achieved through strong international chapters and consistent use of international applications.
- Economic growth and development are covered conceptually in an early macro chapter, and then explored in more depth later, allowing an instructor the flexibility to deal with long-run topics both early on and later in the course.
- Entire chapters are devoted to high-interest applications such as unions and labor markets; income, poverty, and health care; and environmental economics.
- With MyEconLab®–the online tutorial and assessment resource–students spend more time doing economics, and instructors spend less time grading. Visit MyEconLab to learn more, take a tour, and request access.
- Complete integration between the book and MyEconLab: Each new student copy comes with prepaid access to a MyEconLab course developed specifically to accompany this text. End-of-chapter questions are available within MyEconLab so students can make the most of their study time.
- Learning through practice: For each chapter, students can self-study using the preloaded sample tests and tutorial resources, or they can complete instructor-assigned problems. MyEconLab automatically grades exercises–even graphing problems–so students get instant feedback and personalized Study Plans with links to additional learning tools.
- Online instructor tools: Within MyEconLab, instructors can assign preloaded or customized multiple-choice, graphing, algorithmic, and free-response questions. Exercises are auto-graded, and MyEconLab records the results in an online gradebook to effortlessly track student progress.
- Economic Videos featuring ABC News: Each video in this series presents an issue using ABC News footage accompanied by commentary from economists to show students the economics behind the news. Visit Economics Videos for more information and to view a demo.
- Clicker PowerPoint® slides allow professors to instantly quiz students in class and receive immediate feedback through Clicker Response System technology. These slides provide multiple-choice questions for each chapter from the Test Banks. The Clicker PowerPoint slides are available for instructors to download from the Instructor Resource Center.
- Copyright 1997
- Edition: 1st
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- ISBN-10: 0-13-216243-1
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-216243-2
Miller’s Economics Today remains committed to providing readers with discussion and coverage of the most current issues and events. Given the immense changes in our economy over the past year, the updated fifteenth editionaddresses what has occurred and discusses the importance of today’s major economic issues.
Table of Contents
Part One: Introduction
Chapter 1: The Nature of Economics
Chapter 2: Scarcity and the World of Trade-Offs
Chapter 3: Demand and Supply
Chapter 4: Extensions of Demand and Supply Analysis
Chapter 5: Public Spending and Public Choice
Chapter 6: Funding the Public Sector
Part Two: Introduction to Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
Chapter 7: The Macroeconomy: Unemployment and Inflation
Chapter 8: Measuring the Economy’s Performance
Chapter 9: Global Economic Growth and Development
Part Three: Real GDP Determination and Fiscal Policy
Chapter 10: Real GDP and the Price Level in the Long Run
Chapter 11: Classical and Keynesian Macro Analyses
Chapter 12: Consumption, Real GDP, and the Multiplier
Chapter 13: Fiscal Policy
Chapter 14: Deficit Spending and the Public Debt
Part Four: Money, Stabilization and Growth
Chapter 15: Money, Banking and Central Banking
Chapter 16: Money Creation, the Demand for Money, and Monetary Policy
Chapter 17: Domestic and International Dimensions of Monetary Policy
Chapter 18: Stabilization in an Integrated World Economy
Chapter 19: Policies and Prospects for Global Economic Growth
Part Five: Dimensions of Microeconomics
Chapter 20: Demand and Supply Elasticity
Chapter 21: Consumer Choice
Chapter 22: Rents, Profits, and the Financial Environment of Business
Part Six: Market Structure, Resource Allocation, and Regulation
Chapter 23: The Firm: Cost and Output Determination
Chapter 24: Perfect Competition
Chapter 25: Monopoly
Chapter 26: Monopolistic Competition
Chapter 27: Oligopoly and Strategic Behavior
Chapter 28: Regulation and Antitrust Policy in a Globalized Economy
Part Seven: Labor Resources and the Environment
Chapter 29: The Labor Market: Demand, Supply, and Outsourcing
Chapter 30: Unions and Labor Market Monopoly Power
Chapter 31: Income, Poverty and Health Care
Chapter 32: Environmental Economics
Part Eight: Global Economics
Chapter 33: Comparative Advantage and the Open Economy
Chapter 34: Exchange Rates and the Balance of Payments