Reasonably Simple Economics Why the World Works the Way It Does
The goal of Reasonably Simple Economics is, not surprisingly, simple: to help us think like economists. When we do, so much of the world that seemed mysterious or baffling becomes more clear and understandable—improving our lives and providing new tools to succeed in business and career. In a chatt...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
Apress
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2013. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009466958906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Apress Business: The Unbiased Source of Business Information""; ""Contents""; ""About the Author""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction""; ""The Foundation of Modern Economics: The Idea of Scarcity""; ""Rules and Freedom""; ""Rules amid the Chaos""; ""Answers to In-Text Questions""; ""Economics Out There""; ""Chapter 2: Supply and Demand, Considered Separately""; ""Opportunity Cost""; ""Sunk vs. Marginal Costs""; ""Costs and Supply""; ""Demand""; ""Elasticity of Demand""; ""Answers to In-Text Questions""; ""Economics Out There""
- ""Chapter 3: Supply and Demand, Considered Together""""Equilibrium""; ""Changes in Supply and Demand""; ""Price Controls""; ""Answers to In-Text Question""; ""Economics Out There""; ""Chapter 4: The Economics of Information or Knowledge""; ""Decentralized Knowledge and the Spontaneous Order""; ""The Importance of Learning from Mistakes""; ""Competition""; ""Profit as Markup""; ""The Market as What We Know Together""; ""Monopoly and Its Meaning, or Lack Thereof""; ""The Indifference Principle""; ""When the Indifference Principle Does Not Hold""; ""Speculation""; ""Economics Out There""
- ""Chapter 5: Public and Private Decision Making""""Who Is the Government, and What Does It Want?""; ""Problem 1: Government as Subject to Special-Interest Capture""; ""Problem 2: The Incentive to Accumulate Knowledge in the Private Sector and in the Government""; ""Problem 3: �The Democracy Problem""; ""Problem 4: �The Abuse-of-Power Problem""; ""Answer to In-Text Question""; ""Economics Out There""; ""Chapter 6: Who Makes How Much, and Why""; ""The Market for Compensation""; ""Power in the Employer-Employee Relationship""; ""The Distribution of Income""
- ""The Economics of �Taste-Based Discrimination""""Statistical Discrimination""; ""Who Makes What, by Ethnicity and Sex""; ""Economics Out There""; ""Chapter 7: The Middleman and the Entrepreneur""; ""The Middleman""; ""Financial Middlemen""; ""The Middleman in Society""; ""The Entrepreneur More Generally""; ""The Entrepreneur as Residual Claimant""; ""The Entrepreneur as Social Reorganizer""; ""Answers to In-Text Questions""; ""Economics Out There""; ""Chapter 8: Time and Risk""; ""Investment""; ""Interest Rates""; ""Risk and Risk Trading""; ""Answers to In-Text Questions""
- ""Economics Out There""""Chapter 9: The Entrepreneur and Some Economics of the Future""; ""Pessimism Amidst Miracles""; ""The Way Things Used to Be""; ""How Intellectuals and Politicians Have Seen the Future in the Past�a Brief History""; ""Malthusianism""; ""Luddism""; ""Marxism""; ""Permanent Economic Stagnation""; ""Overpopulation/Sustainability""; ""Why We Think Things Keep Getting Worse""; ""How Things Got Better""; ""Economics Out There""; ""Chapter 10: The Things Only Government Can Do""; ""Setting the Table for the Entrepreneur and the Market""; ""When Prices Are Wrong""
- ""Positive Externalities""
