Economics: A Tool for Critically Understanding Society, 9/e, offers a clear, simple introduction to economic analysis in order to help readers use economic concepts to analyze today’s issues, think about everyday decisions, and examine their preconceived ideas and belief. The authors take a historical perspective, presenting economic theories and their connections to a wide variety of schools of thought.

Economics: A Tool for Critically Understanding Society (9th Edition)

Business & Money

Schneider, Geoffrey

Riddell, Tom

Shackelford, Jean A

Stamos, Stephen C.

Economics

Pearson

The Seventh Edition of Economics: A Tool for Critically Understanding Society develops fundamental economic analysis tools in clear, simple, and understandable terms. This one-semester text introduces students to economic theories and ideas, and how those theories and ideas have changed over time. The overarching goal of this text is to encourage critical thinking and to challenge students to examine preconceived ideas and beliefs. It explores various and contending schools of economic thought and successfully gives students perspective on the historical changes in the material conditions, economic institutions, and social relations of human society. By providing students with an opportunity to use economic concepts to solve real-world problems, Economics: A Tool for Critically Understanding Society creates a foundation for future and continued learning.

Economics: A Tool for Critically Understanding Society (7th Edition)

Stamos, Steve C.

Addison-Wesley

Economics: A Tool for Critically Understanding Society offers a clear, simple introduction to economic analysis in a style that is ideal for a one-semester introductory course. The authors take a historical perspective, presenting economic theories and their connections to to a wide variety of schools of thought. The goal is to help students use economic concepts to analyze today’s issues, to think about everyday decisions, and to examine their preconceived ideas and beliefs. Economics as a Tool for Critical Thinking in a Changing Global Economy: Economics as a Social Science; Exploring the Emerging Global Economy. Economic History and the Development of Modern Economic Thought: The Evolution of Economic Systems; Adam Smith, Classical Liberalism, and the Division of Labor; Karl Marx and the Socialist Critique of Capitalism; The Rise and Fall of Laissez-Faire in the U.S. Economy. Microeconomics: Scarcity: “You Can't Always Get What You Want”; The Theory of Markets;Perfect Competition and Efficiency; Noncompetitive Markets and Inefficiency; Resource Markets and the Distribution of Income; Corporations and Labor Unions; The Economic Role of Government. Macroeconomics: Macroeconomics: Issues and Problems; Macroeconomic Theory: Classical and Keynesian Models; Fiscal Policy: Government Spending and Taxation; Financial Markets, Money, and Monetary Policy; Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply; Unemployment, Inflation, and Stabilization Policy in a Global Economy. International Economics and Finance: International Trade and Interdependence; International Finance; The Economics of Developing Nations; Economies in Transition. For all readers interested in one-semester economics.

Economics: A Tool for Critically Understanding Society (8th Edition)

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