McConnell, C: Economics

PART ONE
Introduction to Economics and the Economy
1. Limits, Alternatives, and Choices
2. The Market System and the Circular Flow

PART TWO
Price, Quantity, and Efficiency
3. Demand, Supply, and Market Equilibrium
4. Market Failures Caused by Externalities
5. Public Goods, Public Choice, and
Government Failure

PART THREE
Consumer Behavior
6. Elasticity
7. Utility Maximization
8. Behavioral Economics

PART FOUR
Microeconomics of Product Markets
9. Businesses and the Costs of Production
10. Pure Competition in the Short Run
11. Pure Competition in the Long Run
12. Pure Monopoly
13. Monopolistic Competition
14. Oligopoly and Strategic Behavior
15. Technology, R&D, and Efficiency

PART FIVE
Microeconomics of Resource Markets and Government
16. The Demand for Resources
17. Wage Determination
18. Rent, Interest, and Profit
19. Natural Resource and Energy Economics
20. Public Finance: Expenditures and Taxes

PART SIX
Microeconomic Issues and Policies
21. Antitrust Policy and Regulation
22. Agriculture: Economics and Policy
23. Income Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination
24. Health Care
25. Immigration

PART SEVEN
GDP, Growth, and Instability
26. An Introduction to Macroeconomics
27. Measuring Domestic Output and National Income
28. Economic Growth
29. Business Cycles, Unemployment, and Inflation

PART EIGHT
30. Basic Macroeconomic Relationships
31. The Aggregate Expenditures Model
32. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
33. Fiscal Policy, Deficits, and Debt

PART NINE
Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy
34. Money, Banking, and Financial Institutions
35. Money Creation
36. Interest Rates and Monetary Policy
37. Financial Economics

PART TEN
Extensions and Issues
38. Extending the Analysis of Aggregate Supply
39. Current Issues in Macro Theory and Policy

PART ELEVEN
International Economics
40. International Trade
41. The Balance of Payments, Exchange Rates, and Trade Deficits
42. The Economics

Campbell R. McConnell earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa after receiving degrees from Cornell College and the University of Illinois. He taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1953 until his retirement in 1990. He is also coauthor of Contemporary Labor Economics, Seventh edition, and Essentials of Economics, First edition (both The McGraw-Hill Companies), and has edited readers for the principles and labor economics courses. He is a recipient of both the University of Nebraska Distinguished Teaching Award and the James A. Lake Academic Freedom Award, and is past-president of the Midwest Economics Association. Professor McConnell was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Cornell College in 1973 and received its Distinguished Achievement Award in 1994.