Economics Research Guide

Economics isn't just about numbers- it's about politics, psychology, history, and so much more. Timothy Taylor tackles all the key questions and hot topics of both microeconomics and macroeconomics so you can understand and discuss economics on a personal, national, and global level.

Economics DeMYSTiFieD is a curriculum-based, self-teaching guide that makes learning this important business topic easier than ever. Filled with illustrations, plain-English explanations, and real-life examples, it starts with the fundamentals and eases you into the more complicated theories, concepts, and mathematical formulas.

In the world of Wikinomics, the choices for collaboration are endless. You can produce a television news clip for Youtube or create a community around your photo collection on Flickr. This new participation is changing how goods and services are invented, produced, marketed and distributed on a global basis. It presents far-reaching opportunities for every company and individual. With vivid and engaging examples Wikinomics explains the deep changes in technology, demographics and business that allow people to participate in the economy like never b4

Written by Dirk Mateer, Lee Coppock, and Brian O'Roark--three of the leading economics instructors in the country--Essentials of Economics brings insights and practices refined over a combined 50 years in the classroom to a survey text that is student-centered, from the ground up.

Providing a rich account of how economics can benefit everyone, Economics for the Common Good sets a new agenda for the role of economics in society.

In Economics 101, you'll see how learning economics can be engaging. Economics 101 cuts out the boring explanations and instead provides a hands-on lesson that keeps you engaged as you explore how societies allocate their resources for maximum benefit. From quantitative easing to marginal utility, this primer is packed with hundreds of entertaining tidbits and concepts that you won't be able to get anywhere else. You'll learn the basics on terms such as, monopolies and oligopolies, game theory, inflation, price ceilings, and so much more.

Common Sense Economics discusses key points and theories, using them to show how any reader can make wiser personal choices and form more informed positions on policy. Now in its third edition, this fully updated classic from James D. Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, Dwight R. Lee, and Tawni H. Ferrarini reflects on the recession and the progress that's been made since the crash; it offers insight into political processes and the many ways in which economics informs policy, illuminating our world and what might be done to make it better.

Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths. Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college economics, propagated by self-styled experts, zealous lobbyists, clueless politicians, and ignorant pundits.

Now you can master the principles of macroeconomics with the help of the most popular economics textbook trusted by students worldwide. Using a clear, inviting writing style, this book emphasizes only the material that helps you better understand the world and economy in which you live. The latest relevant examples bring macroeconomic principles to life.

Basic Economics is a citizen's guide to economics, written for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Thomas Sowell explains the general principles underlying different economic systems: capitalist, socialist, feudal, and so on. In readable language. With clear explanations of the entire field, this is the first book for anyone who wishes to understand how the economy functions.

Now revised and expanded, this widely-used desk reference provides quick and easy access to current and reliable data on the major statistical measures of the U.S. economy.

From trade agreements to offshore outsourcing to foreign aid, this two-volume encyclopedia explains the key elements of the world economy and provides a first step to further research for students and scholars in public policy, international studies, business, and the broader social sciences, as well as for economic policy professionals.

The book is perfect for students and professionals interested in a broad range of disciplines including Business, Economics, Finance, and Accountancy and all additional subjects where a knowledge of these fields of essential.

An extensive and authoritative guide to the most frequently cited academic economists throughout the world.

This authoritative and comprehensive dictionary contains clear, concise definitions of approximately 3,500 key economic terms. Covering all aspects of economics including economic theory and policy, applied microeconomics and macroeconomics, labour economics, public economics and publicfinance, monetary economics, and environmental economics.

Although high welfare level is not dependent upon economic growth alone, it is a prerequisite for welfare. Nobody craves equality in poverty. In this book, in addition to the theoretical development of economic growth, the sources and potential effects of economic growth have been analysed using various methods. As such, it will serve as an essential reference work for researchers and policy makers.

The revised second edition of Economic Development: What Everyone Needs to Know brings readers right into the trenches of development policies to show what practitioners are actually doing and explains the issues, dilemmas, options, frustrations and opportunities they face, day in and day out. Marcelo M. Giugale outlines the frontier of the development practice or, as he puts it, "...the point at which knowledge stops and ignorance begins." Drawing from examples across the world, the overall message is clear: economic development, and the poverty reduction that goes with it, have never been more possible for more countries.

Much of economics is a top-down analysis that simplifies and reduces the huge varieties between individuals to a predictable range of characteristics that lend themselves to systematic analysis. This book eschews this conventional perspective, which sees national economies as simply agglomerations of the activities of millions of people, and instead explores the role played by the individual in the economy, in particular, how the individual experiences the economy. In so doing, the book is able to illuminate the economic landscape for the non-technical reader in a much more engaging and accessible way.

Economics should schematically explain the key elements and main strands of this core part of social life: the actual workings of our economies. This book argues that orthodox, modern neoclassical economics does not fulfil this core task. Standard economic models do not address the real functioning of our market economies, but rather an imagined economy.

This book presents research in the old era about the individual elements of economic doctrines that form the basis of the formation of economic science. The aim of the first chapter is to consider the most important economic views in the ancient epoch (Egypt, Iraq, China, India, etc.). The second chapter deals with the most prominent economic considerations of the famous representatives of the ancient epoch, although they did not specifically research economic issues (especially in ancient Greece). The third chapter reveals "mature" economic considerations formed in Western Europe, Kievan Rus', Georgia, Russia, Tunisia etc.) that have finally laid the foundation for economics as a science.