Business Economics and Public Policy Fall 2018 Title Catalog by Cognella, Inc

BUSINESS ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC POLICY TITLE CATALOG

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BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC STATISTICS STUDY GUIDE Kristofor Paulson

ÂŠ 2018 This study guide is designed to complement and enhance the teachings of the textbook Breaking through the World of Statistics. It provides students with additional opportunities for practice and analysis using a three-step approach. For each section, students first review key learning objectives, read a full chapter outline, then test their knowledge and comprehension with multiple choice and short answer questions.

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ECONOMICS OF THE FOOD SYSTEM David Blandford, James Dunn, and Alan Webb

ÂŠ 2018

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This text provides a comprehensive overview of the food system, beginning with the physical and geographical context of United States agriculture. Concepts and tools of applied economics are then used to analyze the structure and economic characteristics of each component of the food system. This book is ideal for courses in agricultural economics or agribusiness.

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MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING A Business Planning Approach Noah P. Barsky and Anthony H. Catanach, Jr.

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Built around authentic business problems and information needs, this text prepares students to compete in today’s dynamic business environment. In each chapter students see how target skills and tools are applied in real-world business situations. Specific topics include evaluating financial performance, planning profitable operations, using forecasting tools and techniques, analyzing budgets and costs, and preparing and presenting business plans.

MACROECONOMICS Principles Deconstructed Brian A. Hunt

This text offers students a compelling treatment of standard macroeconomic principles. The book takes an incentive-based, open-economy approach to Keynesian economics and challenges students to rethink policy approaches to tackle contemporary domestic and global economic challenges. It helps students see the role they play in the global economy and how their choices shape macroeconomic outcomes around the world.

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INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS Peter Koveos and George C. Philippatos

ÂŠ 2016

Stressing the interrelatedness and complexity of the global economy, this text helps students understand the international financial environment and its various implications. Over the course of seven chapters, students become familiar with foundational concepts in international finance.

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OPTIMIZATION IN MICROECONOMICS Christopher Curran and Skip Garibaldi

ÂŠ 2016

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Optimization in Microeconomics is a mathematical economics textbook that synthesizes what the reader knows about mathematics and economics. The exercises in the book ask readers to translate verbal descriptions of an economic problem into mathematical terms for use with optimization techniques to analyze and then translate the mathematical answers back into economic language.

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STRUCTURED MACROECONOMICS Stephen Gillespie

ÂŠ 2016

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This book takes the content of standard, bulky textbooks in the field and pares it down to essential information. It then presents this information in digestible, bite-sized blocks. It teaches students about gross domestic product, inflation, and aggregate supply and demand. Students will also learn about John Maynard Keynes and other classic economists, fiscal and monetary policy, the federal budget, and money and banking.

PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS Joshua Lewer

ÂŠ 2016

This book is about analyzing twenty-first century problems with the twenty-first century student in mind. Using current events, real-time macroeconomic analysis, and unique problems, readers will be left with a solid grasp of macroeconomic fundamentals. The book also provides some background of the financial crisis and demonstrates how a bank with $8 billion in cash can go bankrupt.

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BASIC MACROECONOMICS Thomas Kemp

This book covers basic economic principles by teaching economics in the manner of the hard sciences, requiring students to use real data in the application of theory. Students also learn basic macroeconomic abstractions and how to develop and use basic economic models. The text applies these basic modeling techniques and the data to the conventional sectors of the economy including household, business, financial, government, and foreign sectors.

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PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS Mehmet Serkan Tosun, Pavel Yakovlev, and Antony Davies

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This book teaches microeconomic concepts and theories in a concise, clear manner. It provides insight into the behavior of three important economic agents – individuals, firms, and governments – and discusses the interactions between these agents in a market economy. It explores how this behavior is manifested across a wide variety of countries and cultures including the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

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MIDDLE EAST BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Mamoun Benmamoun, Morris A. Kalliny, and Hadi Alhorr

ÂŠ 2016

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This book provides clear insight into the business environment as viewed from the perspectives of multiple disciplines. The opening chapter discusses factors that affect the business environment in the Middle East. Subsequent chapters explore the main elements of Middle Eastern culture including religion, values, and attitudes, and consider how these affect business practices.

WORLD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Molly Malloy Cooper

ÂŠ 2016

This book provides analysis of critical events starting with the shift from hunting and gathering to agricultural settlements, and it addresses subsequent economic events through the Industrial Revolution and beyond. Taken together, the reading selections make the case that economics is a driving force in history and that economic progress is an integral component in progress of all kinds.

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MACROECONOMICS

The essays featured in this text come from a broad range of pre-Keynesian classical thinkers. They represent differing traditions, primarily the divide between a more monetarist approach and the Austrian school, which is reflected in their views on capital theory, interest rates, price level effects, and sometimes in the study of institutions and public policy.

MACROECONOMICS PAST AND PRESENT VOLUME 2

This anthology uses primary sources to educate students about the living tradition of macroeconomics. Students learn the core principles and gain an understanding of how macroeconomics has been developing for more than two centuries. The book tells the often overlooked story of important work in macroeconomics pre-dating John Maynard Keynes.

This book includes a detailed analysis of how businesses can most efficiently decide on the most vital questions, including their output level, pricing, and how many workers, machines, and materials to acquire. There is also a complete treatment of market structures, from pure competition to pure monopoly and everything in between.

In Real World Macroeconomics, the major issues facing the national economy are fully analyzed, including output, employment, and inflation. Students experience a hands-on approach to delve into business cycles, fiscal policy, and monetary policy. The all-new chapter “The Financial Crisis” has the depth and scope to do justice to the inception of the Great Recession in a treatment that goes well beyond all other introductory economics textbooks.

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ETHICAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES

This text includes an introduction by the author, David Schmidtz, which gives readers a nontechnical overview of an ethical framework for evaluating both market behavior and market institutions. This is an ideal reader for classes in political philosophy, business ethics, ethics and economics, or contemporary moral problems.

CONSUMER RIGHTS ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

The material in this reader shows how an understanding of basic economics concepts and analytical tools can help consumers make sound financial decisions. A series of case studies tracing the life of a couple trying to appropriately allocate their financial resources and make economics decisions provides real-world examples of consumer choices and analysis of those choices.

TEMPERED WITH REALITY

This book analyzes several economic theories and measures each against reality to determine whether or not these theories actually work in the real world. The seven chapters of the book address familiar topics such as free markets, unemployment, inflation, fiscal and monetary policy, and the International Monetary Fund.

This book familiarizes the reader with the various Asian models of development, exploring both the strengths and weaknesses of these paradigms. Economic dynamism in East Asia during the last sixty years provides a multitude of case studies that illustrate economic fundamentals, such as the development of economic bubbles and currency crises.

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This text explores essential statistical techniques, including data collection, simple graphic and numeric statistical procedures, probability, hypothesis testing, and regression. The book is designed to show readers how to become producers of statistical analysis, which will help them make decisions and become better consumers of information.

This text focuses on fundamental principles of law, adding information on practical and theoretical perspectives and policy to the subject. Each chapter focuses on a scenario that highlights the practical and policy issues covered in the chapter. The inclusion of high-profile cases and issues makes the book interesting and appealing to both students and professors.

This analysis and policy oriented text uses real-life examples to develop the basic microeconomic model step by step. Each chapter begins with an introduction and review of the background materials that students will need to understand the discussions within the chapter. Chapter summaries and exercises are also provided throughout the text.

Designed for students taking their first economics course, this text presents macroeconomics in a clear, accessible, and engaging manner. To achieve learning objectives, each chapter provides the background materials necessary to understand the discussions within the chapter and concludes with a summary of the chapter’s main points.

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