English in economics

目录
1 Introduction to Economics
1.1 Macro and Microeconomics
1.2 Scarcity
1.3 Society's Technological Possibilities
1.4 Money and Capital
1.5 Important Concepts and Definitions
Part Ⅰ Microeconomics
2 Demand and Supply
2.1 Demand
2.2 Supply
2.3 Equilibrium and Disequilibrium
2.4 Shifts in Supply and Demand
2.5 Shifts in Equilibrium
3 Elasticity of Supply and Demand
3.1 Price Elasticity of Demand
3.2 Price Elasticity of Supply
4 Consumer Behavior
4.1 Consumer Decision Making
4.2 Utility Analysis
4.3 Evaluating the Benefits of Consumption
5 Production and Costs
5.1 Business Organization
5.2 Theory of Production
5.3 Production in the Short-run
5.4 Cost
5.5 Costs in the Short-run
5.6 Production and Cost in the Long-run
5.7 Economic vs. Accounting Costs
6 Perfect Competition
6.1 Conditions for a Perfectly Competitive Environment
6.2 Profit Maximization and Equilibrium of a Competitive Firm
6.3 Short-run Price and Output Under Perfect Competition
6.4 Long-run Price and Output Under Perfect Competition
6.5 The Efficiency of Competition
7 Imperfect Competition
7.1 Monopoly
7.2 Oligopoly and Duopoly
7.3 Price Discrimination
7.4 Restrictions in the Labor Market
7.5 Antitrust Policy
8 Game Theory
8.1 Some Basics
8.2 Zero-sum Games and Mixed Strategy
8.3 Nash Equilibrium
9 Income Distribution and Market Failure
9.1 Marginal Productivity
9.2 The Demand for Inputs
9.3 Market Failure and Government Intervention
9.4 Regulation
Part Ⅱ Macroeconomics
10 Measuring Output of the Macroeconomy
10.1 Measuring Total Output —— Gross Domestic Product(GDP)
10.2 GDP Accounting Complications
10.3 How to Measure GDP —— Circular Flow of Income and Expenditures
10.4 Real GDP
10.5 Empirical Applications
11 Equilibrium in Product Market and Money Market
11.1 The IS - LM Interactive Graphical Model
11.2 Equilibrium
12 Fiscal Policy
12.1 Fiscal Policy
12.2 Discretionary Fiscal Expenditures vs. Automatic Stabilizers
12.3 Federal Government Expenditures
12.4 Federal Government Revenues
12.5 State and Local Government Spending
12.6 State and Local Government Revenues
12.7 The Multiplier Model
13 Functions of Money
13.1 Functions of Money
13.2 Money Supply Measures
13.3 The Federal Reserve System
13.4 Federal Reserve System Organization
13.5 Federal Reserve Tools to Change the Money Supply
13.6 Balance Sheets
13.7 Fractional Reserve Banking
13.8 Required and Excess Reserves
13.9 Describe the significance of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation(F.D.I.C.)
13.10 Money Creation
13.11 The Velocity of Circulation of Money
13.12 The Quantity Theory of Money
14 The Keynesian Model
14.1 Simple Keynesian Model
14.2 Aggregate Expenditures
14.3 Equilibrium
14.4 Consumption Function
Part Ⅲ Dynamic Economics
15 Unemployment and Labor Markets
15.1 Specialization
15.2 Production Possibilities Curve
15.3 Applications of the Production Possibilities Curve
16 Unemployment and the Labor Market
16.1 Employment and Unemployment
16.2 Labor Market Model
17 Measuring Changes in Prices
17.1 Inflation and Deflation
17.2 Costs of Inflation
17.3 Measuring Inflation with Price Indexes
17.4 Causes of Inflation
18 Business Cycles
18.1 Characteristics of Business Cycles
18.2 Business Cycle Relationships
18.3 Forecasting Business Cycles
19 Economic Growth
19.1 Compound Rates of Growth
19.2 Growth in Income Per Capita
19.3 Growth and Recipes
19.4 Objects and Ideas
19.5 Meta-ideas
Part Ⅳ Reading Materials
1. Adam Smith-Capitalism's Prophet
2. Making Visible the Miracle of the Invisible Hand
3. David Hume-Foundations of the Classical School of Economics
4. Paper Money and Sound Banking
5. Do Low Interest Rates Stimulate Economic Activity?
6. The Growth of Growth Theory
7. Baby Boom and Bust
8. Microeconomics
9. Benefit-Cost Analysis
10. Gender Gap
11. Minimum Wages
12. Industrial Concentration
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