Essentials of Economics [rental Edition]
暫譯: 經濟學要素 [租賃版]

Glenn Hubbard, policymaker, professor, and researcher. Hubbard is Dean emeritus and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University and professor of economics in Columbia's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a director of Automatic Data Processing, Black Rock Fixed-Income Funds, and MetLife. He received a PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1983. From 2001 to 2003, he served as chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers and chair of the OECD Economic Policy Committee, and from 1991 to 1993, he was deputy assistant secretary of the US Treasury Department. He currently serves as co-chair of the nonpartisan Committee on Capital Markets Regulation. Hubbard's fields of specialization are public economics, financial markets and institutions, corporate finance, macroeconomics, industrial organization, and public policy. He is the author of more than 100 articles in leading journals, including American Economic Review; Brookings Papers on Economic Activity; Journal of Finance; Journal of Financial Economics; Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; Journal of Political Economy; Journal of Public Economics; Quarterly Journal of Economics; RAND Journal of Economics; and Review of Economics and Statistics. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and numerous private foundations.

Tony O'Brien, award-winning professor and researcher. O'Brien is a professor of economics at Lehigh University. He received a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987. He has taught principles of economics for more than 20 years, in both large sections and small honors classes. He received the Lehigh University Award for Distinguished Teaching. He was formerly the director of the Diamond Center for Economic Education and was named a Dana Foundation Faculty Fellow and Lehigh Class of 1961 Professor of Economics. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. O'Brien's research has dealt with issues such as the evolution of the US automobile industry, the sources of US economic competitiveness, the development of US trade policy, the causes of the Great Depression, and the causes of black--white income differences. His research has been published in leading journals, including American Economic Review; Quarterly Journal of Economics; Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; Industrial Relations; Journal of Economic History; and Explorations in Economic History. His research has been supported by grants from government agencies and private foundations.

格倫·哈伯德，政策制定者、教授及研究員。哈伯德是哥倫比亞大學商學研究所的名譽院長及拉塞爾·L·卡森金融與經濟學教授，同時也是哥倫比亞大學文理學院的經濟學教授。他還是全國經濟研究局的研究助理，以及自動數據處理公司、貝萊德固定收益基金和大都會人壽的董事。他於1983年獲得哈佛大學經濟學博士學位。從2001年到2003年，他擔任白宮經濟顧問委員會主席及經濟合作與發展組織經濟政策委員會主席，並於1991年至1993年擔任美國財政部副助理部長。他目前擔任非黨派資本市場監管委員會的共同主席。哈伯德的專業領域包括公共經濟學、金融市場與機構、企業金融、宏觀經濟學、產業組織及公共政策。他在多個頂尖期刊上發表了超過100篇文章，包括美國經濟評論；布魯金斯經濟活動論文；金融學期刊；金融經濟學期刊；貨幣、信用與銀行學期刊；政治經濟學期刊；公共經濟學期刊；經濟季刊；RAND經濟學期刊；及經濟學與統計評論。他的研究得到了國家科學基金會、全國經濟研究局及多個私人基金會的資助。 托尼·奧布萊恩，獲獎教授及研究員。奧布萊恩是萊海大學的經濟學教授。他於1987年獲得加州大學伯克利分校的博士學位。他教授經濟學原理已超過20年，涵蓋大型班級及小型榮譽班。他獲得了萊海大學傑出教學獎。他曾擔任經濟教育鑽石中心的主任，並被任命為達納基金會教職員研究員及萊海1961屆經濟學教授。他曾在加州大學聖巴巴拉分校及卡內基梅隆大學工業管理研究所擔任訪問教授。奧布萊恩的研究涉及美國汽車產業的演變、美國經濟競爭力的來源、美國貿易政策的發展、大蕭條的原因及黑人與白人收入差異的原因等問題。他的研究發表在多個頂尖期刊上，包括美國經濟評論；經濟季刊；貨幣、信用與銀行學期刊；產業關係；經濟史期刊；及經濟史探索。他的研究得到了政府機構及私人基金會的資助。