Understanding Modern
Economics
Roger LeRoy Miller,
Institute for University Studies, Arlington, TX
Description
Understanding Modern
Economics is a fresh approach to the survey of economics course, blending just the right
amount of theory with dozens of real-world examples to give students the key to modern
economic reasoning. Miller's proven methodology harnesses the power of current events and
issues to spark students' interest and pave the way to understanding modern economics.
Through his use of
real-world examples that whet student interest and make complex ideas easier to grasp,
Miller gives students the tools they need to analyze supply and demand, the theory of the
firm, taxation, inflation, unemployment, national income determination, fiscal and
monetary policy, economic growth, and international trade and finance.
Table of Contents
I. AN INTRODUCTION TO
ECONOMICS.
1. Economics and the
World of Scarcity.
2. The United States
and the World Economy.
II. MICROECONOMICS.
3. Demand and Supply.
4. Consumer Decision
Making and Consumer Reaction to Price Changes.
5. The Firm:
Production and Cost.
6. The Two Extremes:
Perfect Competition and Pure Monopoly.
7. In Between the
Extremes: Imperfect Competition.
8. Market and
Government Failures.
9. Labor Economics.
III. MACROECONOMICS.
10. Unemployment, Inflation,
and the Business Cycle.
11. Aggregate Demand and
Supply.
12. The Fiscal Policy
Approach to Stabilization.
13. Money and Our Banking
System.
14. The Monetary Policy
Approach to Stabilization.
15. How Economies Grow.
VI. INTERNATIONAL.
16. Trading With Other
Nations.
17. Financing World Trade.
Features
- Includes hundreds of
domestic as well as international examples that motivate students, while driving home the
applications of economic theory.
- Graphs are bold, bright, and
conceptually clear. The text includes enough graphs to make students comfortable, but not
so many that students become overwhelmed.
- Examples are an integrated
part of the presentation and numbered sequentially throughout the text (so you can refer
directly a specific example on which you might wish to expand the presentation).
- At least two separate
features per chapter take an in-depth look at specific policy, e-commerce, and global
issues.
- A CD-ROM packaged with all
new copies of the textbook includes animations and video and audio clips that will sharpen
students' overall mastery of economics.
- Extensive Internet problems
within each chapter promote using the Internet for economic analysis.
- End-of-chapter materials
include Questions and Problems and Exploring Critical Thinking, with more than enough
questions and problems to reinforce material for students.
- Homework Sets in the
Appendix consist of 10 additional problems per chapter.
- Economics and Your Everyday
Life, a booklet offering numerous applications of economics and guidance for analyzing
economic news, is shrink-wrapped with every new textbook.
402 PAGES