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| List of Figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Organization of the Book | |
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| Microeconomics and the Theory of Markets | |
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| Demand and Supply | |
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| Demand | |
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| Income and Wealth | |
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| Prices of Other Goods | |
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| Tastes | |
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| Expectations | |
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| Supply | |
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| Prices of Inputs | |
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| Technology | |
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| Expectations | |
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| Market Equilibrium | |
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| Elasticity | |
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| Sales Taxes | |
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| The Theory of the Firm, Market Structures, Factor Markets, and the Distribution of Income | |
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| Perfect Competition | |
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| Market Failure | |
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| Monopoly | |
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| Price Discrimination | |
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| Monopolistic Competition | |
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| Oligopoly | |
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| The End of Oligopoly? | |
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| Deregulation | |
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| The Theory of Factor Pricing | |
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| The Distribution of Income | |
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| Macroeconomics | |
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| The Economy as a Whole: Definitions and Analyses | |
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| Why Macroeconomics? | |
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| How Gross Is the Gross Domestic Product? | |
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| Effective Demand | |
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| Households and Consumption | |
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| The Business Sector and Investment | |
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| The Public Sector | |
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| Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy, Recession and Inflation | |
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| Fiscal Policy: Taxing and Spending | |
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| Money Is as Money Does | |
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| Financial Markets, the Federal Reserve System, and Monetary Policy | |
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| Monetary Policy | |
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| Business Cycles, Inflation, and Unemployment | |
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| Up, Up, Up ... | |
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| Down, Down, Down ... | |
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| The Tools of Stabilization Policy | |
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| A New Dynamic? | |
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| Financial Crisis | |
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| The Great Recession | |
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| International Economics and National Economies | |
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| International Economics and Comparative Advantage | |
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| The Idea of Comparative Advantage | |
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| Exchange Rates and Adjustment Mechanisms | |
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| Gold standard | |
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| Flexible Exchange Rates | |
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| International Investment and the Balance of Payments | |
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| Government Policy and the International Economy: Tariffs, Quotas, and Exchange Rates | |
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| Free Trade Determining Public Policy | |
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| The International Economy: The Rise and Fall of Bretton Woods | |
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| The Dollar Exchange Standard, 1944-1971 | |
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| Transnational Corporations | |
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| The Transformation of the International Economy | |
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| The End of the Bretton Woods Payments System | |
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| The Beginning of a New International Economy | |
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| The New International Economy | |
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| An Anomaly and a Worry | |
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| Some Final Observations | |
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| Appendix: Websites of Related Interest | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |