Economics with calculus / Michael C. Lovell.
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TextPublication details: Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Pub., c2004.Description: xvii, 613 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9789812388254 (alk. paper)
- 9789812388575 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9812388257 (alk. paper)
- 9812388575 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 595-601) and index.
CONTENTS: Introduction -- Production Possibilities-- Supply and Demand: Where do Prices come from? -- Maximizing Satisfaction -- The Business Enterprise: Theory of the Firm -- Market Structure -- Distribution: Who Gets What? -- Monitoring Economic Performance -- GDP Accounting and the Multiplier -- Money, Prices and Output -- Dynamics, Expectations and Inflation -- Growth and Development -- Appendix 1. Further Reading -- Appendix 2. Web Resources -- Index.
This textbook provides a calculus-based introduction to economics. Students blessed with a working knowledge of the calculus will find that this text facilitates their study of the basic analytical framework of economics. The textbook examines a wide range of micro and macro topics, including prices and markets, equity versus efficiency, Rawls versus Bentham, accounting and the theory of the firm, optimal lot size and just in time, monopoly and competition, exchange rates and the balance of payments, inflation and unemployment, fiscal and monetary policy, IS-LM analysis, aggregate demand and s.