TY - BOOK AU - Ayres,Ronald M. AU - Collinge,Robert A. TI - Economics: explore & apply T2 - Prentice Hall series in economics SN - 0131463942 U1 - 330 AYE PY - 2003/// CY - Upper Saddle River, N.J. PB - Pearson Education Prentice Hall KW - Economics N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1.The economic perspective -- 2.Production and trade -- 3.Demand and supply -- 4.The power of prices -- 5.Measuring national output -- 6.Unemployment -- 7.Inflation -- 8.A framework for macroeconomic analysis -- 9.Fiscal policy and short-run instability -- 10.Aggregate expenditures -- 11.Fiscal policy in action -- 12.Economic growth -- 13.Money, banking and the federal reserve -- 14.Monetary policy and price stability -- 15.Elasticity: measuring responsiveness -- 16.Consumer behavior -- 17.The firm and production -- 18.Costs and profit-maximizing output -- 19.Pure competition -- 20.Monopolgy and antitrutst -- 21.Oligopoly and monopolistic competition -- 22.Markets for labor and other inputs -- 23.Earnings and income distribution -- 24.Public goods, regulation, and information -- 25.Externalities and common property resources -- 26.Public choice -- 27.Into the international marketplace -- 28.Policy toward trade -- 29.Economic development ER -