Economics: Principles & Practices – Interactive Student Edition (2008)

Economics: Principles & Practices is the only program with full coverage of the new economy and the impact of the digital revolution. It is correlated to the National Standards and, in addition to having current statistics and news events, this program has updated diagrams, charts, maps, photos, and illustrations.

CONTENTS

UNIT 1 Fundamental Economic Concepts
Chapter 1 What Is Economics?
Chapter 2 Economic Systems and Decision Making
Chapter 3 Business Organizations

UNIT 2 Microeconomics: Prices and Markets
Chapter 4 Demand
Chapter 5 Supply
Chapter 6 Prices and Decision Making
Chapter 7 Market Structures

UNIT 3 Economic Institutions and Issues
Chapter 8 Employment, Labor, and Wages
Chapter 9 Sources of Government Revenue
Chapter 10 Government Spending
Chapter 11 Financial Markets

UNIT 4 Macroeconomics: Performance and Stabilization
Chapter 12 Macroeconomic Performance
Chapter 13 Economic Instability
Chapter 14 Money, Banking, and the Fed
Chapter 15 Economic Stabilization Policies

UNIT 5 The Global Economy
Chapter 16 International Trade
Chapter 17 Developing Countries.
Chapter 18 Global Economic Challenges

REFERENCE SECTION
Personal Finance Handbook
Skills Handbook
STANDARD & POOR'S Databank
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Reference Atlas
English/Spanish Glossary.
Index
Acknowledgments

About the author:
GARY E. CLAYTON, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Economics and Finance Department at Northern Kentucky University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Utah and an honorary doctorate from the People’s Friendship University of Russia in Moscow. Dr. Clayton has authored several textbooks and a number of articles, has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, and was a guest commentator for economic statistics on NPR’s Marketplace. Dr. Clayton won the Freedoms Foundation Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education in 2000. Other awards include a national teaching award from the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) and NKU’s 2005 Frank Sinton Milburn Outstanding Professor award.
Dr. Clayton has taught international business and economics to students in England, Austria, and Australia. In 2006 he helped organize a micro loan development project in Uganda.