●Unit One
Text: What Is Economics?
Additional Text: The Economic Problem
Unit Two
Text: Demand and Supply
Additional Text: Utility and Consumer Choice
Unit Three
Text: Price Elasticities of Demand and Supply
Additional Text: The Factors Influencing the Price
Elasticities of Demand and Supply
Unit Four
Text: Cost of Production
Additional Text: Economies and Diseconomies of Scale
Unit Five
Text: Monopoly
Additional Text: Perfect Competition
Unit Six
Text: Oligopoly
Additional Text: Monopolistic Competition
Unit Seven
Text: Gross Domestic Product
Additional Text: Two Alternative Approaches of Measuring GDP
Unit Eight
Text: Economic Growth
Additional Text: Sources of Economic Development
Unit Nine
Text: Inflation
Additional Text: Unemployment
Unit Ten
Text: Money and Banking
Additional Text: The U.S. Central Bank: The Federal Reserve System
Unit Eleven
Text: Foreign Exchange and Exchange Rate
Additional Text: The Effects of Exchange Rates on the Economy
Unit Twelve
Text: The Balance of Payments
Additional Text: International Monetary Systems
Unit Thirteen
Text: Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Additional Text: Lags in the Economy’s Response to Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Unit Fourteen
Text: Role of Government in the Economy
Additional Text: Government’s Policies Toward Externalities
Appendix Ⅰ Answers to Exercises
Appendix Ⅱ Chinese Translation of the Texts
內容簡介
本書專門為經濟學專業學生設計,較為繫統介紹理論經濟學和應用經濟學各學科的基礎知識和基本問題,內容涉及微觀經濟學、宏觀經濟學、人口資源與環境經濟學、發展經濟學、財政學等。為適應高校開課一學年學時的需求,設計了上下分冊,本書在第三版上冊基礎上修訂,更新完善了內容。本書在原第三版的基礎上,主要從三個方面進行了修訂和完善:一是根據經濟發展實踐變化情況,對書的主要數據及材料進行了更新,使之更加貼近實際,更好地反映現實經濟狀況;二是對書的練習題做了適當精簡和更新,使之更加切合教學實際和需要;三是為了使本書內容更好地體現經濟學相關理論的核心內容及其繫統性、邏輯性和近期新進展,對書中一些課文的內容進行了替換和補充,尤其對主課文“通貨膨脹”和副課文“失業”等全部內容做了全新的替換和完善。