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《经济学，第19版》，凝结了大师对经济学最后的诠释

Economics: 19th Edition
Paul A. Samuelson, MASS INSTITUTE OF TECH
William D. Nordhaus, YALE UNIVERSITY

ISBN: 9780073511290 / ©2010 / MHHE / McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Hardcover / 744 pages  / Pub date: 04/08/2009

中文版即将由人民邮电出版社出版




Overview
Samuelson's text was first published in 1948, and it immediately became the authority for the principles of economics courses. The book continues to be the standard-bearer for principles courses, and this revision continues to be a clear, accurate, and interesting introduction to modern economics principles. Bill Nordhaus is now the primary author of this text, and he has revised the book to be as current and relevant as ever.

New Features

• Superior coverage of capital, interest and profits. Chapter 15: Capital, Interest and Profits, has been combined from the previous edition’s section on the theory of capital (chapter 14) and interest rates (Chapter 25) to be a more coherent chapter that starts with the concepts of rates of return, present value, and interest rates, then presents the basic theory of capital.
• Updated view of financial markets and monetary policy. Chapter 23: Money and Financial Markets, has been thoroughly rewritten to move from quantitative thinking about the role of the money supply toward the new “channel” view in which the Fed sets interest rates on the basis of objectives, particularly in the section on banking. Chapter 24: Central Banking and Monetary Policy, also makes the transition from the monetary-quantitative world to the new interest-rate world, and includes new diagrams to explain the monetary-transmission mechanism.
• Content updated throughout: The 19th edition contains new and updated discussion and topics throughout. Some of these additions of current coverage include: •gasoline taxes and rationing (Ch. 4)
  •executive compensation (Ch. 6)
  •the cost of the war in Iraq (Ch. 7)
  •housing and loss aversion (Ch. 9)
  •public policies toward monopolistic abuses, including revised discussions of regulation and antitrust policies (Ch. 10)
  •a new section on insurance (Ch. 11)
  •Stolper-Samuelson theory (Ch. 18)
  •a discussion of financial disturbances and business cycles (Ch. 22)
  •a diagram with the poverty trap, which shows an important example of multiple equilibria (Ch. 26)
  •a diagram presenting spreads on emerging market securities to emphasize the role of financial globalization (Ch. 26)
  •improved explanation of the monetary transmission mechanism for the open economy with flexible rates (Ch. 28)
• Data updated throughout: The authors have worked carefully to update data throughout the book with the very latest economic information.

Table of Contents

PART ONE BASIC CONCEPTS

Chapter 1 The Central Concepts of Economics
Chapter 2 The Modern Mixed Economy
Chapter 3 Basic Elements of Supply and Demand

PART TWO MICROECONOMICS: SUPPLY, DEMAND, AND PRODUCT MARKETS

Chapter 4 Supply and Demand: Elasticity and Applications
Chapter 5 Demand and Consumer Behavior
Chapter 6 Production and Business Organization
Chapter 7 Analysis of Costs
Chapter 8 Analysis of Perfectly Competitive Markets
Chapter 9 Imperfect Competition and Monopoly
Chapter 10 Competition Among the Few
Chapter 11 Economics of Uncertainty

PART THREE. FACTOR MARKETS: LABOR, LAND, AND CAPITAL

Chapter 12 How Markets Determine Incomes
Chapter 13 The Labor Market
Chapter 14 Land, Natural Resources, and the Environment
Chapter 15 Capital, Interest, and Profits

PART FOUR. APPLICATIONS OF ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES

Chapter 16 Government Taxation and Expenditure
Chapter 17 Efficiency vs. Equality: The Big Tradeoff
Chapter 18 International Trade

PART FIVE. MACROECONOMICS: ECONOMIC GROWTH AND BUSINESS CYCLES

Chapter 19 Overview of Macroeconomics
Chapter 20 Measuring Economic Activity
Chapter 21 Consumption and Investment
Chapter 22 Business Cycles and Aggregate Demand
Chapter 23 Money and Financial Markets
Chapter 24 Monetary Policy and the Economy

PART SIX. GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

Chapter 25 Economic Growth
Chapter 26 The Challenge of Economic Development
Chapter 27 Exchange Rates and the International Financial System
Chapter 28 Open-Economy Macroeconomics

PART SEVEN. UNEMPLOYMENT, INFLATION, AND ECONOMIC POLICY

Chapter 29 Unemployment and the Foundations of Aggregate Supply
Chapter 30 Inflation
Chapter 31 The Frontiers of Macroeconomics