Schaum's Outline of Principles of Economics (Schaum's Outline Series) - Softcover

Salvator, Dominick; Diulio, Eugene A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070544875 ISBN 13: 9780070544871

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1980

Synopsis

This is an outline for the standard introductory economics course. Emphasis is on the analytical core of economics presented in a problems and solutions format. The book includes chapter-by-chapter glossaries and multiple-choice review questions, as well as four sample exams.

About this title

From the Back Cover

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• Hundreds of solved problems covering every aspect of economic principles courses, with step-by-step solutions
• Hundreds of additional practice problems, with answers supplied
• An easy-to-understand overview of all central economic principles
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Chapters include:

• Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium
• Unemployment, Inflation, and National Income
• Consumption, Investment, and Net Exports
• Keynesian Approach to Equilibrium Output
• Fiscal Policy
• Money and Banking
• The Federal Reserve
• Monetary and Fiscal Policy
• Inflation
• Unemployment, Deficits, and Debt
• Economic Growth and Productivity
• Demand, Supply, and Elasticity
• Theory of Consumer Demand and Utility
• Costs of Production
• Price and Output
• Oligopoly
• Production and the Demand for Economic Resources
• Wage Determination
• Rent, Interest, and Profits

About the Author

Dominick Salvatore is an economics professor at Fordham University in New York. He is the author of the textbooks Microeconomics: Theory and Applications, 4ed (2003), International Economics, 8ed (2004), Introduction to International Economics (2005), and Managerial Economics in a Global Economy, 6ed (2006). He has also written Schaum's Outline of International Economics and Schaum's Outline of Statistics and Econometrics.

Eugene Diulio is an associate professor of economics at Fordham University. He is the author of Schaum's Outline of Macroeconomic Theory. He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070544875
• ISBN 13: 9780070544871
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314