Economic Analysis of Social Issues - Couverture souple

Grant, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0133023036 ISBN 13 : 9780133023039

Editeur : Pearson, 2015

Synopsis

Key Benefit: Economic Analysis of Social Issues provides readers with a modern analytical approach to economics based on the tools of game theory. Readers who are passionate about contemporary social problems are given an analytical framework to discuss problems like pollution, health care, and the depletion of natural resources.

 

Key Topics: Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Value of Life; Basic Game Theory: Games Between Two Players; Game Theory: Games Between Three or More Players; Free Exchange: Individual and International Trade; The Market System: Functions, Structure, and Institutions; The Nature of Pollution Problems; Government Policies to Regulate Pollution; Resource Depletion and Sustainability; Public Goods and the Role of Government; Public Goods: Tackling Large Projects and Eminent Domain; The Volunteer's Dilemma: A Collective Inaction Problem; Voting:  You Can’t Always Get What You Want; The Economics of Health Insurance and Health Care; Segregation and Discrimination; Gross Domestic Product and the Wealth of Nations: An Introduction to the Macroeconomy; Unemployment; An Introduction to Money, Banks, and the Financial System; The Federal Reserve: Monetary Policy, Economic Activity, and Inflation; The Federal Government: Taxes, Spending, and Fiscal Policy; Income Inequality and the Redistribution of Income

 

Market: For readers who don't have a background in economics, looking to discuss social issues from an economic point of view. 

 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alan Grant is professor of economics at Baker University. Prior to teaching at Baker, he was professor of economics at Eastern Illinois University and served as a visiting professor at Harlaxton College in England. He has taught the economic issues course for more than 15 years. Professor Grant is the recipient of a number of teaching awards and has been nationally recognized for teaching excellence. His research has been published in numerous professional journals, including Public Finance Review, National Tax Journal, Economics Letters, the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Applied Economics Letters, and the Journal of Economic Education, and has been highlighted in The Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, The Economist, and The New York Times.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0133023036
• ISBN 13: 9780133023039
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 552
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italie