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The instant economist : everything you need to know about how the economy works / Timothy Taylor.
- Description: x, 260 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Plume, c2012.
- ISBN: 9780452297524 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0452297524 (pbk.)
Available copies
- 16 copies at NOBLE (All Libraries).
Current holds
0 current holds with 18 total copies.
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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| Beverly Main | NEW | HB 171 .T36 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Danvers | Adult Nonfiction | HB 171 T36 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Endicott College | General Collection | HB 171 .T36 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Gloucester | Adult Nonfiction | 330/Taylor (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Lynnfield | Adult Nonfiction | HB 171 .T36 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Marblehead | Adult Nonfiction | 330 TAYLOR 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Melrose | New Books (Browsing Room) | 330 Taylor (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Merrimack College | Stacks (2nd) | HB171 .T36 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Middlesex - Bedford Campus | Stacks | HB171 .T36 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Middlesex - Lowell Campus | Lower Level | HB171 .T36 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
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| Contents: | How economists think -- Division of labor -- Supply and demand -- Price floors and ceilings -- Elasticity -- The labor market and wages -- Financial markets and rates of return -- Personal investing -- From perfect competition to monopoly -- Antitrust and competition policy -- Regulation and deregulation -- Negative externalities and the environment -- Positive externalities and technology -- Public goods -- Poverty and welfare programs -- Inequality -- Imperfect information and insurance -- Corporate and political governance -- Macroeconomics and gross domestic product -- Economic growth -- Unemployment -- Inflation -- The balance of trade -- Aggregate supply and aggregate demand -- The unemployment-inflation trade-off -- Fiscal policy and budget deficits -- Countercyclical fiscal policy -- Budget deficits and national saving -- Money and banking -- The Federal Reserve and its powers -- The conduct of monetary policy -- The gains of international trade -- The debates over protectionism -- Exchange rates -- International financial crashes -- A global economic perspective. |
| Summary: | Regardless of their level of education, most people wish they understood economics better. An award-winning professor translates the subject's complicated principles into easy-to-understand language, tackling all the key questions and hot topics of microeconomics and macroeconomics. |
| Notes: | "A Plume book." |
| Notes: | "The great courses" -- Cover. |
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Economics. |
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