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The American Economy: A Student Study Guide

ABSTRACT

A student study guide to accompany the principle work, 'The American economy: how it works and how it doesn't'.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part 1|16 pages

Conceptual Foundations

chapter 1|3 pages

Toward a Twenty-First Century Economic Agenda: Goals and Possibilities

chapter 2|4 pages

The Market Economy: Pure and Simple

chapter 3|4 pages

Government in the Economy: The Limits of Intervention

chapter 4|3 pages

The Historical Foundation of American Economic Institutions and Ideas

part II|24 pages

Microeconomics

chapter 5|4 pages

When Firms Act as Price Makers: Competition Versus Monopoly

chapter 6|4 pages

The Economics of Externalities and the Environment

chapter 7|3 pages

Health-Care Issues

chapter 8|3 pages

Factor Markets: Pricing and Productivity

chapter 9|2 pages

The Distribution of Income: Dividing the Economic Pie

chapter 10|4 pages

Government Expenditures and Taxation

part 3|22 pages

Macroeconomics

chapter 11|4 pages

Accounting for economic Fluctuations: Aggregate demand and Aggregate supply Analysis

chapter 12|4 pages

Maintaining a Rising Level of Output: the Importance of Economic Growth

chapter 13|3 pages

Employment and Unemployment: Who is Out of Work and Why?

chapter 14|2 pages

The Federal Debt and Deficit Crisis: The Limits of Fiscal Policy

chapter 15|4 pages

Keeping Inflation Under Control: The Limits of Monetary Policy

part IV|9 pages

International Economics

chapter 16|4 pages

America in the World: International Trade

chapter 17|3 pages

America in the World: International Finance