书名：
Economics Today THE MICRO VIEW Sixteenth Edition RogerEconomics.Today.The.Micro.View,.Roger.LeRoy.Miller,.16ed,.AW,.2012.pdf
Miller, Roger LeRoy.
Economics today / Roger LeRoy Miller. —16th ed.
p. cm. — (The pearson series in economics)
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-13-255461-9 (single volume edition; chapters 1-33) — ISBN 978-0-13-255451-0
(the macro view; chapters 1–18; 32–33) — ISBN 978-0-13-255441-1 (the micro view;
chapters 1–6; 19–33)
1. Economics. 2. Microeconomics. 3. Macroeconomics. I. Title.
PART 1 Introduction
1 The Nature of Economics 1
The Power of Economic Analysis 2
Defining Economics 2
The Three Basic Economic Questions and Two Opposing Answers 3
The Economic Approach: Systematic Decisions 5
Economics as a Science 7
Why Not… Try to Increase Blood Donations by Offering Small Payments
to Donors? 9
Positive Versus Normative Economics 10
You Are There A Movie Producer Responds to Incentives 11
Issues & Applications In Many U.S. Industries, Command and Control Rules 12
Summary: What You Should Know/Key Terms and Key Figures/
Where to Go to Practice 13
Problems 14
Economics on the Net 16
Answers to Quick Quizzes 16
Appendix A Reading and Working with Graphs 17
Direct and Inverse Relationships 17
Constructing a Graph 17
Graphing Numbers in a Table 19
The Slope of a Line (A Linear Curve) 21
Summary: What You Should Know/Key Terms and
Key Figures/Where to Go to Practice 24
Problems 24
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Contents
2 Scarcity and the World of Trade-Offs 26
Scarcity 27
Wants and Needs 28
Scarcity, Choice, and Opportunity Cost 29
The World of Trade-Offs 30
The Choices Society Faces 32
Why Not… Provide “Free” Health Care to Everyone in the United States? 33
Economic Growth and the Production Possibilities Curve 35
The Trade-Off Between the Present and the Future 36
Specialization and Greater Productivity 38
Comparative Advantage and Trade Among Nations 40
You Are There Stopping Students’ Thursday Night Parties
with Friday Classes 41
Issues & Applications Is Daylight Saving Time Efficient? 42
Summary: What You Should Know/Key Terms and Key Figures/
Where to Go to Practice 43
Problems 44
Economics on the Net 46
Answers to Quick Quizzes 47
3 Demand and Supply 48
Demand 49
The Demand Schedule 51
Shifts in Demand 54
The Law of Supply 58
The Supply Schedule 59
Why Not… Help College Students by Requiring Publishers to Reduce
Prices for All of the Textbooks They Currently Supply? 61
Shifts in Supply 62
Putting Demand and Supply Together 64
You Are There Adjusting to a Lower Market Clearing Price of Solar Cells 68
Issues & Applications How the Great Recession Identified Inferior Goods 68
Summary: What You Should Know/Key Terms and Key Figures/
Where to Go to Practice 69
Problems 71
Economics on the Net 73
Answers to Quick Quizzes 73
4 Extensions of Demand and Supply Analysis 74
The Price System and Markets 75
Changes in Demand and Supply 76
The Rationing Function of Prices 79
The Policy of Government-Imposed Price Controls 80
The Policy of Controlling Rents 82
Why Not… Require Owners of Residential Buildings to
Provide Low-Cost Housing So That All U.S. Residents
Can “Afford” Roofs over Their Heads? 83
Price Floors in Agriculture 84
Price Floors in the Labor Market 85
Quantity Restrictions 87
You Are There “Cash for Clunkers” Subsidies and the Market for
“Liquid Glass” 88
Issues & Applications Contemplating Two Ways to Tackle Water Shortages 88
Summary: What You Should Know/Key Terms and Key Figures/
Where to Go to Practice 90
Problems 91
Economics on the Net 93
Answers to Quick Quizzes 93
Appendix B Consumer Surplus, Producer Surplus, and Gains
from Trade within a Price System 94
Consumer Surplus 94
Producer Surplus 95
Gains from Trade Within a Price System 96
Price Controls and Gains from Trade 97
等等。
