Economics: Principles And Applications

Because issues of policy and real applications are critical to the principles of economics course, acclaimed economists Hall and Lieberman have made the latest edition of their cutting-edge text as current as today's headlines, giving students a real-world, up-to-the-minute overview that presents economics as a unified discipline. Taking a no-nonsense, policy approach to economic theory and application, this comprehensive text is very accessible, equipping readers with a solid foundation in economics that they can build upon wherever their career paths may lead. A wealth of interactive online exercises, graphing applications, and research opportunities give students hands-on experience working with current economic issues. Hall and Lieberman's careful focus on core theoretical ideas and systematic application of theoretical tools to timely, practical questions conveys the message that economics is an integrated, powerful body of knowledge that can effectively address domestic and global issues.

Dr. Robert E. Hall is a prominent applied economist. He is the Robert and Carole McNeil Joint Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, where he conducts research on inflation, unemployment, taxation, monetary policy, and the economics of high technology. Dr. Hall received his Ph.D. from MIT and has taught there as well as at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the president of the American Economic Association for the year 2010. He is also director of the research program on Economic Fluctuations of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and chairman of the Bureau's Committee on Business Cycle Dating, which maintains the chronology of the U.S. business cycle. He has published numerous monographs and articles in scholarly journals, and co-authored a popular intermediate text. Dr. Hall has advised the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Board on national economic policy and has testified on numerous occasions before congressional committees.

Dr. Marc Lieberman is Clinical Professor of Economics at New York University. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Dr. Lieberman has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, labor economics, and international economics. He has presented his extremely popular Principles of Economics course at Harvard, Vassar, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Hawaii, and New York University. Dr. Lieberman has won NYU's Golden Dozen teaching award three times and has also received the Economics Society Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is co-editor and contributor to THE ROAD TO CAPITALISM: ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION. Dr. Lieberman has consulted for the Bank of America and the Educational Testing Service. In his spare time, he is a professional screenwriter and teaches screenwriting at NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies.