经济学原理/高等学校经济学类英文版教材

原书名：Essentials of Economics（应该译为“经济学精要”）作者：(美国)曼昆著
出版社：高等教育出版社
版次印次：1  ISBN书号：7040171368
开本：16开 装帧：平装
国别：中国大陆 页数：494

图书目录
 
How People Make Decisions 3 Principle#1：People Face Tradeoffs 3 Principle：The Cost of Something IsWhatYouGiveUptoGetIt 4 Principle#3：Rational People Think at the Margin 5 Principle：People Respond to Incentives 6 How People Interact 7 Principle#5：Trade Can Make Everyone Better Off 7 Principle6：Markets Are Usually a Good Way to Organize Economic Activity 8 FYI：Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand 9 Principle7：Governments Can Sometimes Improve Market Outcomes 9 How the Economy as a Whole W0rks 10 Principle：A Country"s Standard of Living Depends on Its Ability to Produce Goods and Services 1 O Principle：Prices Rise When the Government PrintsToOMuchMoney 11 Principle#10：Society Faces a Short—Run Tradeoff between Inflation and Unemployment 1 2 FVl：HOW to Read This Book 13 Conclusion 1 4 Summary 14 Key Concepts 1 5 Questions for Review 1 5 Problems and Applications 1 5 The Economist as Scientist 1 8 The Scientific Method：Observation，Theor~ and More Observation 1 9 The Role of Assumptions 1 9 Economic Models 20 Our First Model：The Circular-Flow Diagram 2 1 Our Second Model：The Production Possibilities Frontier 22 Microeconomics and Macroeconomics 24 The Economist as Policy Adviser 26 Positive versus Normative Analysis 26 Why Economists Disagree 27 Differences in Scientific Judgments 28 Differences in Values 28 Perception versus Reality 28 Summary 30 KeyConcepts 30 Questions for Review 30 Problems and Applications 30 A Parable for the Modern Economy 33 Production Possibilities 33 The Principle of Comparative Advantage 35 Absolute Advantage 36 Opportunity Cost and Comparative Advantage 37 Comparative Advantage and Trade 38 Applications of Comparative Advantage 39 Should Tiger Woods Mow His Own Lawn?39 Should the United States Trade with Other Countries?40 Conclusion 4 1 Summary 41 Key Concepts 41 Questions for Review 4 1 Problems and Applications 4 2 Markets and Competition 47 Competitive Markets 47 Competition：Perfect and Otherwise 47 Demand 48 The Demand Curve：The Relationship between Price and Quantity Demanded 48 Market Demand versus Individual Demand 49 Shifts in the Demand Curve 50 CASE STUDY：Two Ways to Reduce the Quantity of Smoking Demanded 53 Supply 54 The Supply Curve：The Relationship between Price and Quantity Supplied 54 Market Supply versuS Individual Supply 55 Shifts in the Supply Curve 56 Supply and Demand Together 58 Equilibriu m 58 Three Steps to Analyzing Changes in Equilibrium 60 Conclusion：HOW Prices Allocate Resources 65 Summary 66 Key Concepts 67 Questions for Review 67 Problems and Applications 68 The Elasticity of Demand 7 1 ． The Price Elasticity of Demand and Its Determinants 7 1 Computing the Price Elasticity of Demand 72 The Midpoint Method：A Better Wav to Calculate Percentage Changes and Elasticities 73 Pricing Admission to a Museum 75 n t一“。| OntheRoadwithElasticity 75 ．Other Demand Elasticities 76 1：he Elasticity of Supply 77 The Price Elasticity of Supply and Its Determidants 77 Computing the Price Elasticity of Supp!y 78 The Variety of Supply Curves 78 Three Applications of Supply,Demand， and Elasticity 81 Can Good NeWS for Farming Be Bad News for Farmers?81 Why Did OPEC Fail to Keep the Price of Oil High?83 Conclusion 84 ． Summary 85 Key Concepts 85 Questions for Review 85 Problems and Applications 86 Controls on Prices 89 HOW Price Ceilings Affect Market Outcomes 89 CASE STUDY：Lines at the Gas Pump 9 1 eg STUY：The Minimum Wa2e 92 HOW Price Floors Affect Market Outcomes 92 Does aDroughtNeedtoCause ater Shortage? 93 Evaluating Price Controls 96 Taxes 97 HOW Taxes on Buyers Affect Market Outcomes 97 HOW Taxes on Sellers Affect Market Outcomes 99 fSSTUDWho Pays the Luxury 11ax? 101 Conclusion 101 Summary 102 Key Concepts 102 Questions for Review 1 02 Problems and Applications 1 02 Consumer Surplus 1 07 Willingness to Pay 1 07 Using the Demand Curve to Measure Consumer Surplus 108 How a Lower Price Raises Consumer Surplus 109 What Does Consumer Surplus Measure? 1 1 0 Producer Surplus 11 2 Cost and the Willingness to Sell 11 2 Using the Supply Curve to Measure Producer Surplus”3 How a Higher Price Raises Producer Surplus 1 1 5 Market Efficiency 1 1 6 The Benevolent Social Planner 11 6 Evaluating the Market Equilibrium”7 Ticket Scalping 1 20 Conclusion：Market Efficiency and Market Failure 1 2 1 Summary 1 22 Kev Concepts 1 22 Questions for Review 1 22 Problems and Applications 1 23 The Deadweight Loss of Taxation 1 26 How a Tax Affects Market Participants 1 2 7 Deadweight Losses and the Gains from Trade 1 29 The Determinants of the Deadweight Loss 1 30 CASE STUDY：The Deadweight Loss Debate 132 Deadweight Loss and Tax Revenue as Taxe$V_anr 1 3 3 FVi Henry George and the Land Tax 134 eASE SUDY：The Laffer Curve and Supply．Side Economics 1 35 Conclusion 1 37 Summary 138 Kev Concepts 1 38 Questions for Review 1 38 Problems and Applications 1 38 The Determinants of Trade 141 The Equilibrium without Trade 1 4 1 The Worid Price and Comparative Advantage 142 nners and Losers frombde ，43 The Gain~and Losses of an Exporting Country 1 4 3 The Gains and Losses of an Importing Countrv 1 45 The Effects of a 11a—ff 147 l‘Lifeinlsoland、49 The Effects of an Import Quota 1 50 The Arguments for Restricting Trade 1 5 2 Otiler Benefits of Intenla[iOnaTrade 1 53 The Tobs Argument 1 53 The National—Securitv Argument 1 54 The Infant—Industry Argument 1 54 The Unfair—Competition Argument 1 54 The Protection—as—a—Bargaining—Chip Argument 1 55 srU0y：’rrade Agreements and the World Trade Organization 1 55 Globalization 1 56 Conclusion 1 57 Summary 1 58 Kev Concepts 1 59 Questions for Review 1 59 Problems and Applications 1 59 Externalities and Market Inefficiency 1 63 Welfare Economics：A Recap 1 64 Negative Externalities 1 65 Positive Externalities 1 66 CASE STUD"

(美国)曼昆著简介

N．格里高利．曼昆(N．Gregory Mankiw)，先后毕业于美国普林斯顿大学和麻省理工学院，目前是哈佛大学经济学教授和美国总统经济顾问委员会主席，讲授微观经济学、宏观经济学、统计学和经济学原理。曼昆教授是一位多产作者，经常参与学术性与政策性的争论。他的作品不但发表在《美国经济评论》等学术期刊上，也发表在诸如《纽约时报》、《金融时报》、《华尔街杂志》和《财富》等大众化报刊上。他还兼任国民经济研究局研究员、波士顿联邦储备银行和国会预算办公室的顾问，以及ETS经济学高级考试命题委员会成员。