本书在介绍经济学内容方面自成体系,十分适合于只想了解该学科的学生阅读。不过,本书全面介绍了经济学基础知识,再加上为初级和中级经济学架起一座桥梁的带星号的内容,为那些专攻经济学的学生提供了必要的知识面。全书内容涉及微观经济学、宏观经济学基础、宏观经济学、世界经济等。
我国教育部考试中心与英国剑桥联合举办的高等学历教育经济学专业考试大纲就是根据本教材体系制定的。其中文版已由经济科学出版社出版[经济学(第六版)[英]约翰·斯罗曼著 郭庆旺 赵志耘译 经济科学出版社 2008]
Brief Contents
Preface xiii
Part A: Introduction 1
1 Introducing Economics 3
Part B: Foundations of Microeconomics 31
2 Supply and Demand 33
3 Government Intervention in the Market 69
Part C: Microeconomics 89
4 Background to Demand 91
5 Background to Supply 119
6 Profit Maximising under Perfect Competition and Monopoly 156
7 Profit Maximising under Imperfect Competition 177
8 Alternative Theories of the Firm 204
9 The Theory of Distribution of Income 227
10 Inequality, Poverty and Policies to Redistribute Incomes 263
11 Markets, Efficiency and the Public Interest 291
12 Applied Microeconomics 327
Part D: Foundations of Macroeconomics 365
13 The National Economy 367
14 Macroeconomic Issues and Analysis: an Overview 395
Part E: Macroeconomics 429
15 The Roots of Modern Macroeconomics 431
16 Short-run Macroeconomic Equilibrium 451
17 Money and Interest Rates 478
18 The Relationship between the Money and Goods Markets 504
19 Fiscal and Monetary Policy 528
20 Aggregate Supply, Unemployment and Inflation 573
21 Long-term Economic Growth 598
22 Supply-side Policies 609
Part F: The World Economy 633
23 International Trade 635
24 The Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates 668
25 Global and Regional Interdependence 702
26 Economic Problems of Developing Countries 720
Appendix 1: Some Techniques of Economic Analysis A:1
Appendix 2: Websites A:14
Threshold Concepts and Key Ideas T:1
Glossary G:1
Index I:1