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Modern Principles of Economics

Fourth Edition| ©2018New Edition Available Tyler Cowen; Alex Tabarrok

Writing about economics at Marginal Revolution taught us to use vivid examples and to get to the point quickly. We brought these skills to our textbook, Modern Principles of Economics.

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Writing about economics at Marginal Revolution taught us to use vivid examples and to get to the point quickly. We brought these skills to our textbook, Modern Principles of Economics.

From the first sentence, The prisoners were dying of scurvy, typhoid fever, and smallpox, but
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Modern Principles means modern content and modern delivery. We cover material that many other textbooks ignore, such as how managers should choose between piece rates and tournaments and how firms can increase their profits using clever forms of price discrimination such as bundling and tying. In macroeconomics, we have created a simple yet powerful AD-AS model that combines insights from New Keynesian and Real Business Cycle models.
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Writing about economics at Marginal Revolution taught us to use vivid examples and to get to the point quickly. We brought these skills to our textbook, Modern Principles of Economics.

From the first sentence, The prisoners were dying of scurvy, typhoid fever, and smallpox, but
nothing was killing them more than bad incentives.
to the last, no other textbook teaches the economic way of thinking so well or so memorably.

Modern Principles means modern content and modern delivery. We cover material that many other textbooks ignore, such as how managers should choose between piece rates and tournaments and how firms can increase their profits using clever forms of price discrimination such as bundling and tying. In macroeconomics, we have created a simple yet powerful AD-AS model that combines insights from New Keynesian and Real Business Cycle models.
We have also created the Super Simple Solow model which for the first time makes the Solow model of economic growth accessible to principles of economics students.

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Tyler Cowen; Alex Tabarrok

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Modern Principles of Economics

Fourth Edition| 2018

Tyler Cowen; Alex Tabarrok

Table of Contents

Preface
1. The Big Ideas in Economics
2. The Power of Trade and Comparative Advantage
 
Part 1: Supply and Demand

3. Supply and Demand
4. Equilibrium: How Supply and Demand Determine Prices
5. Elasticity and Its Applications
6. Taxes and Subsidies
 
Part 2: The Price System
7. The Price System: Signals, Speculation, and Prediction
8. Price Ceilings and Floors
9. International Trade
10. Externalities: When the Price Is Not Right
 
Part 3: Firms and Factor Markets
11. Costs and Profit Maximization under Competition
12. Competition and the Invisible Hand
13. Monopoly
14. Price Discrimination and Pricing Strategy
15. Oligopoly and Game Theory
16. Competing for Monopoly: The Economics of Network Goods
17. Monopolistic Competition and Advertising
18. Labor Markets
 
Part 4: Government
19. Public Goods and the Tragedy of the Commons
20. Political Economy and Public Choice
21. Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy
 
Part 5: Decision Making for Businesses, Investors, and Consumers
22. Managing Incentives
23. Stock Markets and Personal Finance
24. Asymmetric Information: Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection
25 Consumer Choice
 
Part 6: Economic Growth
26 GDP and the Measurement of Progress
27 The Wealth of Nations and Economic Growth
28 Growth, Capital Accumulation, and the Economics of Ideas: Catching Up vs. the Cutting Edge
29 Saving, Investment, and the Financial System
 
Part 7: Business Fluctuations
30 Unemployment and Labor Force Participation
31 Inflation and the Quantity Theory of Money
3. Business Fluctuations: Aggregate Demand and Supply
33. Transmission and Amplification Mechanisms
 
Part 8: Macroeconomic Policy and Institutions
34. The Federal Reserve System and Open Market Operations
35. Monetary Policy
36. The Federal Budget: Taxes and Spending
37. Fiscal Policy
 
Part 9: International Economics
38 International Finance
 
APPENDIX A Reading Graphs and Making Graphs
APPENDIX B Solutions to Check Yourself
Glossary G-1
References R-1
Index I-1
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Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen is Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Director of the Mercatus Center and the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy. He is published widely in economics journals, including the American Economic Review and Journal of Political Economy. With Alex Tabarrok he co-writes the Marginal Revolution blog, often ranked as the #1 economics blog. He is also the author of Discover Your Inner Economist (Dutton, 2007) and numerous other books on economics. He writes regularly for the popular press on economics, including for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, and The Wilson Quarterly.  University web page: http://economics.gmu.edu/faculty/tcowen.html WATCH: Tyler Cowen at the Economic Bloggers Forum.


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Alex Tabarrok is Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Tabarrok is co-author with Tyler Cowen of the popular economics blog, Marginal Revolution. His recent research looks at bounty hunters, judicial incentives and elections, crime control, patent reform, methods to increase the supply of human organs for transplant, and the regulation of pharmaceuticals. He is the editor of the books, Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science; The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society; and Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and The Control of Crime. His papers have appeared in the Journal of Law and Economics, Public Choice, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, The American Law and Economics Review, Kyklos and many other journals. His popular articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other magazines and newspapers.

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Price Ceilings: The US Economy Flounders in the 1970s

In 1971, President Nixon, in an effort to control inflation, declared price increases illegal. Because prices couldn’t increase, they began hitting a ceiling. With a price ceiling, buyers are unable to signal their increased demand by bidding prices up, and suppliers have no incentive to increase quantity supplied because they can’t raise the price.What results when the quantity demanded exceeds the quantity supplied? A shortage! In the 1970s, for example, buyers began to signal their demand for gasolin

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Zimbabwe and Hyperinflation: Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire?

How would you like to pay $417.00 per sheet of toilet paper? Sound crazy? It’s not as crazy as you may think. Here’s a story of how this happened in Zimbabwe.Around 2000, Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe, was in need of cash to bribe his enemies and reward his allies. He had to be clever in his approach, given that Zimbabwe’s economy was doing lousy and his people were starving. Sow what did he do? He tapped the country’s printing presses and printed more money. Clever, right? Not so

The Solow Model and the Steady State

Remember our simplified Solow model? One end of it is input, and on the other end, we get output.What do we do with that output?Either we can consume it, or we can save it. This saved output can then be re-invested as physical capital, which grows the total capital stock of the economy.There's a problem with that, though: physical capital rusts.Think about it. Yes, new roads can be nice and smooth, but then they get rough, as more cars travel over them. Before you know it, there are potholes

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