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Economics Dean S. Karlan

Economics By Dean S. Karlan

Economics by Dean S. Karlan


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Helps you built from the ground up to focus on what matters to students in high-tech, globalized world. This book represents a generation of products, optimized for digital delivery and available with the best-in-class adaptive study resources in McGraw-Hill's LearnSmart Advantage Suite.

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Economics by Dean S. Karlan

Built from the ground up to focus on what matters to students in today's high-tech, globalized world, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Morduch's Economics represents a new generation of products, optimized for digital delivery and available with the best-in-class adaptive study resources in McGraw-Hill's LearnSmart Advantage Suite. Engagement with real-world problems is built into the very fabric of the learning materials as students are encouraged to think about economics in efficient, innovative, and meaningful ways.

Drawing on the authors' experiences as academic economists, teachers, and policy advisors, a familiar curriculum is combined with material from new research and applied areas such as finance, behavioral economics, and the political economy, to share with students how what they're learning really matters. This modern approach is organized around learning objectives and matched with sound assessment tools aimed at enhancing students' analytical and critical thinking competencies. Students and faculty will find content that breaks down barriers between what goes on in the classroom and what is going on in our nation and broader world.

By teaching the right questions to ask, Karlan and Morduch provide readers with a method for working through decisions they'll face in life and ultimately show that economics is the common thread that enables us to understand, analyze, and solve problems in our local communities and around the world.

Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, and how they need it, so that your class time is more engaging and effective.

About Dean S. Karlan

Dean Karlan is Professor of Economics and Finance at Northwestern University and President and Founder of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA). Dean started IPA in 2002 with two aims: to help learn what works and what does not in the fight against poverty and other social problems around the world, and then to implement successful ideas at scale. IPA has worked in over 50 countries, with 1,000 employees around the world. Dean's personal research focuses on using field experiments to learn more about the effectiveness of financial services for low-income households, with a focus on using behavioral economics approaches to improve financial products and services. His research includes related areas, such as building income for those in extreme poverty, charitable fund-raising, voting, health, and education. Dean is also co founder of stickK.com, a start-up that helps people use commitment contracts to achieve personal goals, such as losing weight or completing a problem set on time, and in 2015 he founded Impact Matters, an organization that helps assess whether charitable organizations are using and producing appropriate evidence of impact. Dean is a Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and an Executive Committee member of the Board of the M.I.T. Jameel Poverty Action Lab. In 2007 he was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He is co editor of the Journal of Development Economics and on the editorial board of American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. He holds a BA from University of Virginia, an MPP and MBA from University of Chicago, and a PhD in Economics from MIT. In 2016 he coauthored Failing in the Field, and in 2011 he coauthored More Than Good Intentions:Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy. Jonathan Morduch is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Jonathan focuses on innovations that expand the frontiers of finance and how financial markets shape economic growth and inequality. Jonathan has lived and worked in Asia, but his newest book, The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty (written with Rachel Schneider and published by Princeton University Press, 2017), follows families in California, Mississippi, Ohio, Kentucky, and New York as they cope with economic ups and downs over a year. The new work jumps off from ideas in Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day (Princeton University Press, 2009), which Jonathan coauthored and which describes how families in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa devise ways to make it through a year living on $2 a day or less. Jonathan's research on financial markets is collected in The Economics of Micro-finance and Banking the World, both published by MIT Press. At NYU, Jonathan is executive director of the Financial Access Initiative, a center that supports research on extending access to finance in low-income communities. Jonathan's ideas have also shaped policy through work with the United Nations, World Bank, and other international organizations. In 2009, the Free University of Brussels awarded Jonathan an honorary doctorate to recognize his work on micro-finance. He holds a BA from Brown and a PhD from Harvard, both in Economics.

Table of Contents

Thinking Like an Economist
  • Part 1: The Power of Economics Chapter 1 Economics and Life Chapter 2 Specialization and Exchange Appendix A Math Essentials: Understanding Graphs and Slope Part 2: Supply and Demand Chapter 3 Markets Appendix B Math Essentials: Working with Linear Equations Chapter 4 Elasticity Appendix C Math Essentials: Calculating Percentage Change, Slope, and Elasticity Chapter 5 Efficiency Appendix D Math Essentials: The Area Under a Linear Curve Chapter 6 Government Intervention
Microeconomics: Thinking Like a Microeconomist
  • Part 3: Individual Decisions Chapter 7 Consumer Behavior Appendix E Using Indifference Curves Chapter 8 Behavioral Economics: A Closer Look at Decision Making Chapter 9 Game Theory and Strategic Thinking Chapter 10 Information Chapter 11 Time and Uncertainty Appendix F Math Essentials: Compounding Part 4: Firm Decisions Chapter 12 The Costs of Production Chapter 13 Perfect Competition Chapter 14 Monopoly Chapter 15 Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly Chapter 16 The Factors of Production Chapter 17 International Trade Part 5: Public Economics Chapter 18 Externalities Chapter 19 Public Goods and Common Resources Chapter 20 Taxation and the Public Budget Chapter 21 Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination Chapter 22 Political Choices Chapter 23 Public Policy and Choice Architecture
Macroeconomics: Thinking Like a Macroeconomist
  • Part 6: The Data of Macroeconomics Chapter 24 Measuring the Wealth of Nations Chapter 25 The Cost of Living Part 7: Economic Growth and Unemployment Chapter 26 Economic Growth Chapter 27 Unemployment and the Demand for Labor Part 8: The Economy in the Short Run Chapter 28 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply Chapter 29 Fiscal Policy and Public Finance Part 9: The Financial System and Institutions Chapter 30 The Basics of Finance Appendix G Personal Finance (online) Chapter 31 Money and the Monetary System Chapter 32 Inflation Chapter 33 Financial Crisis Part 10: International Policy Issues Chapter 34 Open-Market Macroeconomics Chapter 35 Development Economics
Data Guide for Economists (online) Glossary

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CIN0073511498G
9780073511498
0073511498
Economics by Dean S. Karlan
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Hardback
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
2013-09-06
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