Economics for Today, 11/e (Paperback)

Overview
Master current economic concepts with the most reader-friendly economics text available -- ECONOMICS FOR TODAY, 11E by national award-winning author Irvin Tucker. No matter what your current level of economic understanding, this edition provides an interesting writing style, unique presentation and visual learning system with helpful, colorful graphs that clarify important economic principles and effectively explain the latest economic developments. Rather than presenting a confusing array of economic analyses for you to memorize, this edition demonstrates how to apply basic economic principles in daily life and recognize economics at work in today's news. You study the latest information on economic growth, income distribution, federal deficits, environmental issues, and other emerging developments in economics. Learning tools, road maps and corresponding interactive, digital MindTap resources with videos, tutorials and practice exercises immediately reinforce your understanding.

• What's New
  • THE LATEST CLEAR INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS CORRESPOND SEAMLESSLY TO ONLINE HOMEWORK PROBLEMS. Your students can now learn from online feedback and digital instruction that incorporates a student-focused approach that is consistent with the reader-friendly narrative in the printed book.
  • CHOICES FOR CUSTOMIZING IN MINDTAP OFFER ULTIMATE TEACHING FLEXIBILITY. You are able to rearrange chapters and customize or print online chapters. You can even add any optional topics you desire, including your own research and notes or specialized topics drawn from the Cengage Economics Issues database.
  • DISTINCTIVE "ROAD MAPS" REVIEW KEY MATERIAL FROM EACH PART. To reinforce concepts "Road Maps" conclude each part and present review questions, organized by chapter. Questions correspond with MindTap to offer opportunities for interactive review.
  • UPDATED FEATURES CONNECT ECONOMIC CONCEPTS TO THE LATEST REAL-WORLD CHALLENGES. This edition offers new "A Closer Look" all-encompassing features that combine the previous edition's insights from "You’re the Economist" and "Global Economics" features. Both "A Closer Look" and "Checkpoint" features highlight the clear connections between key concepts introduced in this edition and the real-world issues and problems that students encounter every day.
  • REVISED END-OF-CHAPTER SAMPLE QUIZZES BETTER REFLECT CHAPTER CONCEPTS TO PREPARE STUDENTS. These helpful practice and study tools provide important review to prepare your students to succeed on tests.
  • IMPROVED TEST BANK ACCURATELY EVALUATES AND MEASURES STUDENT LEARNING. The author team has carefully assessed and improved this edition's Test Bank to ensure that it adequately covers the breadth and depth of concepts and that it properly gauges your students' mastery of the material.
  • UPDATED INSTRUCTOR’S MANUAL PROVIDES VALUABLE COURSE ASSISTANCE. This edition's helpful Instructor's Manual offers chapter outlines, clear instructional objectives, critical-thinking and group discussion questions and even classroom games as well as tips and insights for engaging and involving students in your course. You can also easily locate answers to the "Analyze the Issue" questions in addition to answers to even-numbered questions and problems and summary quizzes.
  • ONLINE EXERCISES SPARK STUDENTS' EXCITEMENT ABOUT ECONOMIC RESEARCH ON THE INTERNET. Meaningful exercises for each chapter require students to access online economic data and answer questions related to the content of the chapter. All Internet exercises appear on the MindTap for Tucker accompanying website with direct links to the online addresses. With this time-saving help, students can avoid the tedious and error-prone task of pasting links.
  • OUTSTANDING VISUAL SUMMARIES WRAP UP KEY POINTS FROM EACH CHAPTER. Each chapter ends with a brief point-by-point summary of the key concepts. Many of these summarized points include miniaturized versions of the important graphs that illustrate key concepts. These serve as visual reminders for your students as they finish the chapters. They are also useful in reviewing and studying for quizzes and exams.
  • CAREFULLY REVIEWED AND MODIFIED HOMEWORK QUESTIONS, POWERED BY APLIA, CORRESPOND SEAMLESSLY TO THE PRINTED BOOK'S CONTENT. The author team has reviewed and revised all Aplia question sets to eliminate any potential disconnects between text content and the online test questions that are too often found in competing textbooks. In addition, this edition provides digital versions of all end-of-chapter Study Questions and Problems to give you even more assessments to choose for your students.
  • CAUSATION CHAIN ONLINE GAME HELPS STUDENTS VISUALIZE COMPLEX ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS. A favorite with instructors like you, Tucker's highly successful Causation Chains are included under many graphs throughout this edition. This learning device helps students visualize complex economic relationships using simple box diagrams that illustrate how one change causes another change. Each causation chain in the printed book has a corresponding, animated Causation Chain Game online within MindTap. This game makes it fun to learn and easy to succeed.

概述
通過國家獲獎作者Irvin Tucker撰寫的最易讀的經濟學教材《ECONOMICS FOR TODAY, 11E》，掌握當前的經濟概念。無論您目前對經濟的理解水平如何，本版提供了有趣的寫作風格、獨特的呈現方式和視覺學習系統，並通過有用的彩色圖表澄清重要的經濟原則，有效解釋最新的經濟發展。本版不僅僅是呈現一系列令人困惑的經濟分析供您記憶，而是展示如何在日常生活中應用基本的經濟原則，並認識到經濟在當今新聞中的作用。您將學習有關經濟增長、收入分配、聯邦赤字、環境問題和其他新興經濟發展的最新信息。學習工具、路線圖和相應的互動式數字MindTap資源（包括視頻、教程和練習題）將立即加強您的理解。

新特點
最新的清晰教學視頻與在線作業問題無縫對應。您的學生現在可以從在線反饋和數字化教學中學習，這種教學方法與印刷書中的讀者友好敘述一致。

MindTap的自定義選項提供了最大的教學靈活性。您可以重新排列章節，自定義或打印在線章節。您甚至可以添加任何您想要的可選主題，包括您自己的研究和筆記，或從Cengage經濟問題數據庫中提取的專門主題。

獨特的“路線圖”回顧每個部分的重要材料。為了加強概念，“路線圖”在每個部分結束時提出回顧問題，按章節組織。問題與MindTap相對應，提供互動式復習的機會。

更新的特點將經濟概念與最新的現實世界挑戰相連接。本版提供了新的“更近一步”全面特點，結合了上一版的“你是經濟學家”和“全球經濟學”特點。無論是“更近一步”還是“檢查點”特點，都突出了本版介紹的關鍵概念與學生每天遇到的現實世界問題之間的明確聯繫。

修訂後的章末樣本測驗更好地反映章節概念，以幫助學生準備。這些有用的練習和學習工具提供重要的復習，以幫助學生在考試中取得成功。

改進的試題庫準確評估和衡量學生的學習。作者團隊仔細評估並改進了本版的試題庫，以確保它充分涵蓋概念的廣度和深度，並正確評估學生對材料的掌握程度。

更新的教師手冊提供有價值的課程協助。本版有用的教師手冊提供章節大綱、明確的教學目標、批判性思考和小組討論問題，甚至包括課堂遊戲，以及吸引學生參與的提示和見解。您還可以輕鬆找到“分析問題”的答案，以及偶數問題和問題的答案和總結測驗。

在線練習激發學生對經濟研究的興趣。每章的有意義的練習要求學生訪問在線經濟數據，並回答與內容相關的問題。

Dr. Irvin B. Tucker spent more than 30 years teaching introductory economics at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. He earned his B.S. in economics at North Carolina State University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of South Carolina. He was a long-time member of the National Council on Economic Education. Dr. Tucker served as executive director of the S.C. Council of Education and director of the Center for Economic Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He was recognized for his ability to relate basic principles to economic issues and public policy. His work has received national recognition with awards, including the Meritorious Levy Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education, the Federation of Independent Business Award for Postsecondary Educator of the Year in Entrepreneurship and Economic Education and the Freedom Foundation's George Washington Medal for Excellence in Economic Education. In addition, Dr. Tucker's research has been published in numerous professional journal articles on a wide range of topics, including industrial organization, entrepreneurship and economics of education. In addition to this title, Dr. Tucker authored other highly successful economics books that have shaped students' lives and impacted economics education.

Dr. Irvin B. Tucker 在北卡羅來納大學夏洛特分校教授入門經濟學超過30年。他在北卡羅來納州立大學獲得經濟學學士學位，並在南卡羅來納大學獲得經濟學碩士和博士學位。他是國家經濟教育委員會的長期成員。Tucker博士曾擔任南卡羅來納州教育委員會的執行主任，以及北卡羅來納大學夏洛特分校經濟教育中心的主任。他因能將基本原則與經濟問題和公共政策相關聯而受到讚譽。他的工作獲得了多個國家級獎項的認可，包括卓越私營企業教育梅里托里獎、創業和經濟教育的年度高等教育者獎和自由基金會的喬治華盛頓經濟教育卓越獎章。此外，Tucker博士的研究在許多專業期刊上發表，涵蓋了廣泛的主題，包括產業組織、創業和教育經濟學。除了這本書，Tucker博士還撰寫了其他非常成功的經濟學書籍，影響了學生的生活和經濟教育。

Table of Contents
Part I: INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS.
1. Introducing the Economic Way of Thinking.
2. Production Possibilities, Opportunity Cost, and Economic Growth.

Part II: MICROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS.
3. Market Demand and Supply.
4. Markets in Action.
5. Elasticity.
6. Consumer Choice Theory.
7. Production Costs.

Part III. MARKET STRUCTURES.
8. Perfect Competition.
9. Monopoly.
10. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly.
11. Labor Markets.

Part IV: MICROECONOMIC POLICY ISSUES.
12. Income Distribution, Poverty, and Discrimination.
13. Antitrust and Regulation.
14. Environmental Economics.

PART V: MACROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS.
15. Gross Domestic Product.
16. Business Cycles and Unemployment.
17. Inflation.

Part VI: MACROECONOMIC THEORY AND POLICY.
18. The Keynesian Model.
19. The Keynesian Model in Action.
20. Aggregate Demand and Supply.
21. Fiscal Policy.
22. The Public Sector.
23. Federal Deficits, Surpluses, and the National Debt.

Part VII: MONEY, BANKING, AND MONETARY POLICY.
24. Money and the Federal Reserve System.
25. Money Creation.
26. Monetary Policy.
27. The Phillips Curve and Expectations Theory.

Part VIII: THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY.
28. International Trade and Finance.
29. Economies in Transition.
30. Growth and the Less-Developed Countries.

Glossary.
Index.

目錄

第一部分：經濟學介紹

1. 經濟思維的介紹

2. 生產可能性、機會成本和經濟增長



第二部分：微觀經濟基礎

3. 市場需求和供應

4. 市場運作

5. 彈性

6. 消費者選擇理論

7. 生產成本



第三部分：市場結構

8. 完全競爭

9. 壟斷

10. 壟斷競爭和寡頭壟斷

11. 勞動市場



第四部分：微觀經濟政策問題

12. 收入分配、貧困和歧視

13. 反壟斷和監管

14. 環境經濟學



第五部分：宏觀經濟基礎

15. 國內生產總值

16. 商業周期和失業

17. 通脹



第六部分：宏觀經濟理論和政策

18. 凱恩斯模型

19. 凱恩斯模型的應用

20. 總需求和總供應

21. 財政政策

22. 公共部門

23. 聯邦赤字、盈餘和國債



第七部分：貨幣、銀行和貨幣政策

24. 貨幣和聯邦儲備系統

25. 貨幣創造

26. 貨幣政策

27. 菲利普斯曲線和期望理論



第八部分：國際經濟

28. 國際貿易和金融

29. 轉型經濟體

30. 成長和發展中國家



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