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Economics
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Principles of Economics

Author: N. Gregory Mankiw
Publisher: South-Western College, 2008, 904pp, 5th ed.

Mankiw's Principles of Economics continues to be the most popular and widely used introductory textbook in the Economics classroom. With its clear and engaging writing style, this textbook continues to be one of the most popular books on economics available today. Mankiw emphasizes material that you're likely to find interesting about the economy (particularly if you're studying economics for the first time), including real-life scenarios, useful facts, and the many ways economic concepts play a role in the decisions you make every day. Designed for a two-semester introductory course in economics, this textbook covers both micro- and macroeconomics.
Table of contents
1.  Ten Principles of Economics
2.  Thinking Like an Economist
3.  Interdependence and the Gains from Trade
4.  The Market Forces of Supply and Demand
5.  Elasticity and Its Application
6.  Supply, Demand, and Government Policies
7.  Consumers, Producers, and the Efficiency of ...
8.  Application: The Costs of Taxation
9.  Application: International Trade
10.  Externalities
11.  Public Goods and Common Resources
12.  The Design of the Tax System
13.  The Costs of Production
14.  Firms in Competitive Markets
15.  Monopoly
16.  Monopolistic Competition
17.  Oligopoly
18.  The Markets for the Factors of Production
19.  Earnings and Discrimination
20.  Income Inequality and Poverty
21.  The Theory of Consumer Choice
22.  Frontiers in Microeconomics
23.  Measuring a Nation's Income
24.  Measuring the Cost of Living
25.  Production and Growth
26.  Saving, Investment, and the Financial System
27.  The Basic Tools of Finance
28.  Unemployment and Its Natural Rate
29.  The Monetary System
30.  Money Growth and Inflation
31.  Open-Economy Macroeconomics: Basic Concepts
32.  A Macroeconomic Theory of the Open Economy
33.  Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
34.  The Influence of Monetary and Fiscal Policy ...
35.  The Short-Run Tradeoff between Inflation and ...
36.  Five Debates over Macroeconomic Policy