■ Microeconomics, 10th Edition (Global Edition)
■ Michael Parkin, University of Western Ontario
■ Pub Date : 2011. 4. 27 / Copyright : 2012
■ 552Page / Pearson Higher Education
■ 정가 40,000원 --> 할인정가 10,000원
■ ISBN 978-0-273-75398-8
■ About the Author
Michael Parkin is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Professor Parkin has held faculty appointments at Brown University, the University of Manchester, the University of Essex, and Bond University. He is a past president of the Canadian Economics Association and has served on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and the Journal of Monetary Economics and as managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics. Professor Parkin’s research on macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international economics has resulted in over 160
publications in journals and edited volumes, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He became most visible to the public with his work on inflation that discredited the use of wage and price controls. Michael Parkin also spearheaded the movement toward European monetary union. Professor Parkin is an experienced and dedicated teacher of introductory economics.
■ Description
Parkin’s Microeconomics is a worldwide leader because it provides a serious, analytical approach to the discipline using the latest policy and data. Parkin trains students to think like economists by offering a clear introduction to theory and applying the concepts to today’s events, news, and research.
From our global food shortage to global warming, economic issues permeate our everyday lives. Parkin brings critical issues to the forefront. Each chapter begins with one of today’s key issues, and additional issues appear throughout the chapter to show the real-world applications of the theory being discussed. When the chapter concludes, students “read between the lines” to think critically about a news article relating to the issue, demonstrating how thinking like an economist helps make informed decisions.
Parkin is so committed to currency that he uploads news articles almost daily to MyEconLab®, the online assessment and tutorial system that accompanies the text. Assessment questions based on the “Economics in the News” articles will be uploaded periodically so that instructors can assign recent articles within MyEconLab.
Features to Enhance Teaching and Learning:
•Do your students understand current global issues and the big-picture implications? Authors and reviewers contributed from across the globe to our
Chapter-opening vignettes to help motivate readers culminating with a Reading Between the Lines feature. These vignettes focus on current global issues like natural resources, economic inequality, and global warming. Those topics are woven through the chapter to show the big-picture implications of the theory and the chapter culminates with a Reading Between the Lines feature.
•Highlight and Amplify Current Events and Economics Occurences with Parkin's NEW Economics in Action Boxes. This new feature uses boxes within the chapter to address current events and economic occurrences that highlight and amplify the topics covered in the chapter.
•Do Your Students Know How to Evaluate a Current News Article using their Economics Tools? Reading Between the Lines shows students how to apply economic tools. At the end of each chapter, students use their new economic tools to evaluate a current news article and test their reasoning skills.
•Parkin's Diagrams were developed with the needs of students in mind! Parkin's diagrams show the action. With a consistent and meaningful use of color, each and every figure has been designed with the needs of students in mind. Graphs are paired with data tables, color-blended arrows show movement, diagrams are labeled with boxed notes, and extended captions provide study and review.
•In-text Review Quizzes reinforce major concepts. Sections end with short Review Quizzes that test students’ knowledge of the topics just discussed. These questions can be assigned and auto-graded in MyEconLab, which is a convenient way to encourage students to read the chapter before coming to class.
•Show Students that People Just like them Have Gone on to Change Economic History! Interviews with Economists. One of Parkin’s goals is to show students that people just like them have gone on to change the landscape of economic history. At the end of each part, a captivating interview with one of today’s leading economists shows what inspired that person to pursue a career in economics. With relevant advice geared toward beginners, students see how real people can make a difference in the discipline.
•Provide your Students with a summary for review and Exam Preparation. End-of-Chapter Study Material. Each chapter closes with a concise summary organized by major topics, lists of key terms with page references, and problems and applications. These learning tools provide students with a summary for review and exam preparation.
•MyEconLab and Parkin's Text are In Synch! With MyEconLab®—an online tutorial and assessment resource–students spend more time doing economics, and instructors spend less time grading. Visit MyEconLab to learn more, take a tour, and request access.
•Complete integration between the book and MyEconLab: Each new student copy comes with prepaid access to a MyEconLab course developed specifically to accompany this text. All end-of-chapter questions are available so students can make the most of their study time, and all in-text figures are animated with author narration within MyEconLab.
•Learning through practice: For each chapter, students can self-study using the preloaded sample tests and tutorial resources, or they can complete instructor-assigned problems. MyEconLab automatically grades exercises–even graphing problems–so students get instant feedback and personalized Study Plans with links to additional learning tools.
•Economics in the News: Michael Parkin selects news stories daily to bring economic concepts to life for students. Thought-provoking questions accompany each featured story and are assignable in MyEconLab.
•Online instructor tools: Within MyEconLab, instructors can assign preloaded or customized multiple-choice, graphing, algorithmic, and free-response questions. Exercises are auto-graded, and MyEconLab records the results in an online gradebook to effortlessly track student progress.
•Economic Videos featuring ABC News: Each video in this series presents an issue using ABC News footage accompanied by commentary from economists to show students the economics behind the news. Visit Economics Videos for more information and to view a demo.
•New platform- and browser-independent player: The new Flash™-based, platform- and browser-independent MyEconLab Player is now available! In addition to Internet Explorer®, the Player will support Firefox® on Windows® (XP and Vista®) and Safari®and Firefox on the Macintosh®. Visit MyEconLab for more information.
■ Table of Contents
Brief Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: What is Economics?
Chapter 2: The Economic Problem
Part 2: How Markets Work
Chapter 3: Demand and Supply
Chapter 4: Elasticity
Chapter 5: Efficiency and Equity
Chapter 6: Government Actions in Markets
Chapter 7: Global Markets in Action
Part 3: Households’ Choices
Chapter 8: Utility and Demand
Chapter 9: Possibilities, Preferences, and Choices
Part 4: Firms and Markets
Chapter 10: Organizing Production
Chapter 11: Output and Costs
Chapter 12: Perfect Competition
Chapter 13: Monopoly
Chapter 14: Monopolistic Competition
Chapter 15: Oligopoly
Part 5: Market Failure and Government
Chapter 16: Public Choices and Public Goods
Chapter 17: Economics of the Environment
Part 6: Factor Markets, Inequality, and Uncertainty
Chapter 18: Markets for Factors of Production
Chapter 19: Economic Inequality
Chapter 20: Uncertainty and Information
■ New Features
Simpler where possible, stripped of some technical detail, more copiously illustrated with well-chosen photographs, reinforced with improved chapter summaries and problem sets, and even more tightly integrated with MyEconLab: These are the hallmarks of this tenth edition of Microeconomics. This comprehensive revision also incorporates and responds to the detailed suggestions for improvements made by reviewers and users, in both the broad architecture of the text and chapter-by-chapter. The revision builds on the improvements achieved in previous editions and retains its thorough and detailed presentation of the principles of economics, its emphasis on real-world examples and applications, its development of critical thinking skills, its diagrams renowned for pedagogy and precision, and its path-breaking technology.
Do you want your students to learn how to use economic tools in order to analyze recent real-world events, new issues, and their own daily decisions?
In this Millenium Edition, Michael Parkin has a clearer focus. He fine-tuned chapters and created a more straightforward, visual, and intuitive presentation of the material to better enable students to analyze their own daily decisions! Today’s most prevalent issues tie chapters together, from chapter-opening vignettes to end-of-chapter problems to online practice. Some chapters have been thoroughly reworked to cover new issues, particularly those that involve current policy problems. These changes are aimed at better enabling students to learn how to use the "economic toolkit" to analyze their own daily decisions and understand the events and issues they are confronted with in the media and the ballot box.
Parkin demonstrates how economic theory can be applied to explore a debate or question! Each chapter includes a discussion of a critical issue of our time, to demonstrate how economic theory can be applied to explore a particular debate or question. News stories about today’s major economic events tie each chapter together, from new chapter-opening vignettes to end-of chapter problems and online practice. Among the many issues covered are:
* The gains from trade, globalization, and protectionism and an updated conversation with Jagdish Bhagwati in the first part closer.
* How ethanol competes with food and drives its price up.
* Health care
* Climate change
* The carbon tax debate
* Increasing inequality in the United States and decreasing inequality across the nations
* The Fed’s extraordinary actions and their impact on the balance sheets of banks
* Stubbornly high unemployment
* Currency fluctuations and the pegged Chinese yuan
* Fiscal stimulus and the debate about the fiscal stimulus multipliers
* Monetary stimulus and the dangers of targeting unemployment in an updated conversation with Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé
Instead of simply reporting the current events, Parkin's NEW "Economics in Action" feature applies the event to an economics lesson, so students see how economics plays a part in the world around them! Economics in Action Boxes are located within the chapter to address current events and economic occurrences that highlight and amplify the topics covered in the chapter. Some of the many issues covered in these boxes include the global market for crude oil, the structural unemployment in Michigan, how loanable funds fuel a home price bubble, and the size of the fiscal stimulus multipliers.
Is Relevance an Issue for your students?
Real-world examples and applications appear throughout each chapter chapter and in the end-of-chapter problems and applications
Would you like some help in Bringing Economic Concepts to life for your Students?
Economics in the News questions are assignable in MyEconLab®.Michael Parkin selects news stories daily to bring economic concepts to life for students. Thought-provoking questions accompany each featured story and are assignable in MyEconLab as homework, quizzes, or tests.
Microeconomics 10/e Updates:
In addition to being thoroughly updated and revised, chapters feature the following notable changes:
•What Is Economics? Michael Parkin explains by focusing on six key ideas, all illustrated with student-relevant choices! In Chapter 1, Parkin has reworked the explanation of the economic way of thinking around six key ideas, all illustrated with student-relevant choices. The graphing appendix to this chapter has an increased focus on scatter diagrams and their interpretation and understanding shifts of curves.
•Do your students understand the impact of consumer choices in a particular market? Parkin uses the dramatic changes in the market for recorded music to illustrate the theory in action. In Chapter 8, Utility and Demand, Parkin has a revised explanation of the marginal utility model of consumer choice that now begins with the budget line and consumption possibilities. It then returns to the budget line to explain and illustrate the utility-maximizing rule–equalize the marginal utility per dollar for all goods. The dramatic changes in the market for recorded music illustrate the theory in action.
•Do your Students find the analysis of the income effect and the substitution effect difficult? Parkin makes it easier with a student-friendly application focus on movies and DVDs! Possibilities, Preferences, and Choices (Chapter 9): Students find the analysis of the income effect and the substitution effect difficult and Parkin has reworked this material to make the explanation clearer. He omitted the work-leisure choice coverage of earlier editions and gave the chapter a student-friendly application focus on movies and DVDs.
•Wouldn't You Rather have an Issues focus rather than a Technical focus on Externalities, Public Goods, and Common Resources? Michael Parkin reorganized Externalities, Public Goods, and Common Resources to achieve an issues focus rather than a technical focus. Chapter 16 is about public provision of both public goods and mixed goods with positive externalities; and Chapter 17 is about overproduction of goods with negative externalities and common resources.
•NEW! Chapter 16 - Public Goods and Public Choices begins with an overview of public choice theory, a classification of goods and externalities, and an identification of the market failures that give rise to public choices. The chapter then goes on to explain the free-rider problem and the underprovision of public goods, the bureaucracy problem and overprovision, and the underprovision of mixed goods with external benefits illustrated by education and health care. The chapter explains how education and health care vouchers provide an effective way of achieving efficiency in the provision of these two vital services, a view reinforced in a box on Larry Kotlikoff’s health care plan and Caroline Hoxby’s part closer interview.
•NEW! Economics and the one chapter to better enable their common solutions to be explained andemphasized: Economics and the Environment (Chapter 17) is a new chapter that brings all the environmental damage issues together by combining material on negative externalities and common resources. Covering all this material in the same chapter (the previous editions split them between two chapters) enables their common solutions—property rights (Coase) or individual transferable quotas—to be explained and emphasized.
•Do Your Students Understand Economic Inequality in the World Economy and how it might compare to the U.S. Economy? In Chapter 19, Economic Inequality a section has been included on inequality in the world economy and compares the U.S. inequality with that in nations at the two extremes of equality and inequality. The new section also looks at the trend in global inequality. The discussion of the sources of inequality now includes an explanation of the superstar contest idea. This idea is used to explain Emmanuel Saez’s remarkable data on the income share of the top one percent of Americans.
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