●Unit One 001
Text: Demand and Supply 001
Additional Text: Price Elasticity of Demand 012
Unit Two 018
Text: Cost of Production 018
Additional Text: Economies and Diseconomies of Scale 027
Unit Three 033
Text: Monopoly 033
Additional Text: Perfect Competition 043
Unit Four 048
Text: Oligopoly 048
Additional Text: Monopolistic Competition 057
Unit Five 062
Text: Gross Domestic Product 062
Additional Text: Sources of Economic Development 071
Unit Six 078
Text: Inflation 078
Additional Text: Unemployment 084
Unit Seven 090
Text: Money and Banking 090
Additional Text: The U S Central Bank: The Federal Reserve System 097
Unit Eight 104
Text: Foreign Exchange and Exchange Rate 104
Additional Text: The Effects of Exchange Rates on the Economy 111
Unit Nine 118
Text: The Balance of Payments 118
Additional Text: International Monetary Systems 128
Unit Ten 138
Text: Fiscal and Monetary Policy 138
Additional Text: Role of Government in the Economy 148
Unit Eleven 156
Text: Population 156
Additional Text: The Consequences of High Fertility: Some Conflicting Opinions 163
Unit Twelve 171
Text: Environmental Protection 171
Additional Text: Methods of Pollution Control 179
Unit Thirteen 185
Text: WTO 185
Additional Text: National Competitive Advantage and Diamond Model 197
Unit Fourteen 204
Text: Nontariff Barriers 204
Additional Text: Dumping and Antidumping 214
Unit Fifteen 220
Text: Foreign Aid 220
Additional Text: Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Enterprises 231
Unit Sixteen 239
Text: Economic Globalization 239
Additional Text: Regional Economic Integration 247
Appendix Ⅰ Answers to Exercises 257
Appendix Ⅱ Chinese Translation of the Texts 280
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本書以英語語言的學習應用和經濟學專業知識的掌握為宗旨,繫統介紹了理論經濟學和應用經濟學各學科的基礎知識和基本問題。全書共有,內容涉及微觀經濟學、宏觀經濟學、人口資源與環境經濟學、世界經濟、靠前貿易學、財政學和金融學等。精編版在近期新版的基礎上,以保證原教材繫統性和完整性為前提,節選原教材很為精華的內容整合成一冊,以方便教學需要。本書在原版的基礎上,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”以及第主課文“人口”,都做了較大幅度的調整和完善......