Economics for Today, 11/e (Paperback)
暫譯: 今日經濟學，第11版（平裝本）

Irvin B. Tucker

Economics for Today, 11/e (Paperback)
  • 出版商: Cengage Learning
  • 出版日期: 2023-01-01
  • 定價: $1,680
  • 售價: 9.8 折 $1,646
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 880
  • ISBN: 9815119389
  • ISBN-13: 9789815119381
  • 相關分類: 經濟學 Economy

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商品描述

Overview
Master current economic concepts with the most reader-friendly economics text available -- ECONOMICS FOR TODAY, 11E by national award-winning author Irvin Tucker. No matter what your current level of economic understanding, this edition provides an interesting writing style, unique presentation and visual learning system with helpful, colorful graphs that clarify important economic principles and effectively explain the latest economic developments. Rather than presenting a confusing array of economic analyses for you to memorize, this edition demonstrates how to apply basic economic principles in daily life and recognize economics at work in today's news. You study the latest information on economic growth, income distribution, federal deficits, environmental issues, and other emerging developments in economics. Learning tools, road maps and corresponding interactive, digital MindTap resources with videos, tutorials and practice exercises immediately reinforce your understanding.

 

  • What's New
    • THE LATEST CLEAR INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS CORRESPOND SEAMLESSLY TO ONLINE HOMEWORK PROBLEMS. Your students can now learn from online feedback and digital instruction that incorporates a student-focused approach that is consistent with the reader-friendly narrative in the printed book.
    • CHOICES FOR CUSTOMIZING IN MINDTAP OFFER ULTIMATE TEACHING FLEXIBILITY. You are able to rearrange chapters and customize or print online chapters. You can even add any optional topics you desire, including your own research and notes or specialized topics drawn from the Cengage Economics Issues database.
    • DISTINCTIVE "ROAD MAPS" REVIEW KEY MATERIAL FROM EACH PART. To reinforce concepts "Road Maps" conclude each part and present review questions, organized by chapter. Questions correspond with MindTap to offer opportunities for interactive review.
    • UPDATED FEATURES CONNECT ECONOMIC CONCEPTS TO THE LATEST REAL-WORLD CHALLENGES. This edition offers new "A Closer Look" all-encompassing features that combine the previous edition's insights from "You’re the Economist" and "Global Economics" features. Both "A Closer Look" and "Checkpoint" features highlight the clear connections between key concepts introduced in this edition and the real-world issues and problems that students encounter every day.
    • REVISED END-OF-CHAPTER SAMPLE QUIZZES BETTER REFLECT CHAPTER CONCEPTS TO PREPARE STUDENTS. These helpful practice and study tools provide important review to prepare your students to succeed on tests.
    • IMPROVED TEST BANK ACCURATELY EVALUATES AND MEASURES STUDENT LEARNING. The author team has carefully assessed and improved this edition's Test Bank to ensure that it adequately covers the breadth and depth of concepts and that it properly gauges your students' mastery of the material.
    • UPDATED INSTRUCTOR’S MANUAL PROVIDES VALUABLE COURSE ASSISTANCE. This edition's helpful Instructor's Manual offers chapter outlines, clear instructional objectives, critical-thinking and group discussion questions and even classroom games as well as tips and insights for engaging and involving students in your course. You can also easily locate answers to the "Analyze the Issue" questions in addition to answers to even-numbered questions and problems and summary quizzes.
    • ONLINE EXERCISES SPARK STUDENTS' EXCITEMENT ABOUT ECONOMIC RESEARCH ON THE INTERNET. Meaningful exercises for each chapter require students to access online economic data and answer questions related to the content of the chapter. All Internet exercises appear on the MindTap for Tucker accompanying website with direct links to the online addresses. With this time-saving help, students can avoid the tedious and error-prone task of pasting links.
    • OUTSTANDING VISUAL SUMMARIES WRAP UP KEY POINTS FROM EACH CHAPTER. Each chapter ends with a brief point-by-point summary of the key concepts. Many of these summarized points include miniaturized versions of the important graphs that illustrate key concepts. These serve as visual reminders for your students as they finish the chapters. They are also useful in reviewing and studying for quizzes and exams.
    • CAREFULLY REVIEWED AND MODIFIED HOMEWORK QUESTIONS, POWERED BY APLIA, CORRESPOND SEAMLESSLY TO THE PRINTED BOOK'S CONTENT. The author team has reviewed and revised all Aplia question sets to eliminate any potential disconnects between text content and the online test questions that are too often found in competing textbooks. In addition, this edition provides digital versions of all end-of-chapter Study Questions and Problems to give you even more assessments to choose for your students.
    • CAUSATION CHAIN ONLINE GAME HELPS STUDENTS VISUALIZE COMPLEX ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS. A favorite with instructors like you, Tucker's highly successful Causation Chains are included under many graphs throughout this edition. This learning device helps students visualize complex economic relationships using simple box diagrams that illustrate how one change causes another change. Each causation chain in the printed book has a corresponding, animated Causation Chain Game online within MindTap. This game makes it fun to learn and easy to succeed.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

**概述**
掌握當前經濟概念，使用最易讀的經濟學教材——**《今日經濟學，第11版》**，由全國獲獎作者 Irvin Tucker 所著。無論您目前的經濟理解程度如何，本版提供有趣的寫作風格、獨特的呈現方式和視覺學習系統，配合有助於理解的重要經濟原則的色彩豐富圖表，有效解釋最新的經濟發展。本版不會呈現令人困惑的經濟分析供您背誦，而是展示如何在日常生活中應用基本經濟原則，並在當今新聞中識別經濟現象。您將學習有關經濟增長、收入分配、聯邦赤字、環境問題及其他新興經濟發展的最新資訊。學習工具、路徑圖和相應的互動數位 MindTap 資源，包括視頻、教程和練習題，立即加強您的理解。

- **最新內容**
- **最新的清晰教學視頻與線上作業問題無縫對接。** 您的學生現在可以從線上反饋和數位教學中學習，這些教學採用以學生為中心的方法，與印刷書中的易讀敘述一致。
- **MindTap 中的自訂選項提供終極教學靈活性。** 您可以重新排列章節，自訂或列印線上章節。您甚至可以添加任何您想要的選修主題，包括您自己的研究和筆記或來自 Cengage 經濟問題數據庫的專門主題。
- **獨特的「路徑圖」回顧每部分的關鍵材料。** 為了加強概念，「路徑圖」在每部分結尾並提供按章節組織的回顧問題。問題與 MindTap 對應，提供互動回顧的機會。
- **更新的特徵將經濟概念與最新的現實挑戰連結。** 本版提供新的「更深入了解」全方位特徵，結合了前一版的「你是經濟學家」和「全球經濟」的見解。「更深入了解」和「檢查點」特徵突顯了本版中介紹的關鍵概念與學生每天面對的現實問題之間的清晰聯繫。
- **修訂的章末範例測驗更好地反映章節概念以準備學生。** 這些有助於練習和學習的工具提供重要的回顧，幫助您的學生在考試中取得成功。
- **改進的測試題庫準確評估和測量學生學習。** 作者團隊仔細評估並改進了本版的測試題庫，以確保其充分涵蓋概念的廣度和深度，並正確衡量學生對材料的掌握程度。
- **更新的教師手冊提供有價值的課程協助。** 本版的教師手冊提供章節大綱、清晰的教學目標、批判性思考和小組討論問題，甚至還有課堂遊戲以及吸引和參與學生的技巧和見解。您還可以輕鬆找到「分析問題」問題的答案，以及偶數問題和總結測驗的答案。
- **線上練習激發學生對互聯網經濟研究的興趣。** 每章的有意義練習要求學生訪問線上經濟數據並回答與章節內容相關的問題。所有互聯網練習都出現在 MindTap 的 Tucker 附屬網站上，並提供直接鏈接。這種省時的幫助使學生能夠避免繁瑣且容易出錯的粘貼鏈接任務。
- **出色的視覺摘要總結每章的關鍵要點。** 每章結尾都有一個簡短的逐點摘要，概述關鍵概念。這些摘要中的許多要點包括重要圖表的縮小版，這些圖表說明了關鍵概念。這些作為視覺提醒，幫助學生在完成章節時回顧。它們在複習和準備測驗及考試時也非常有用。
- **經過仔細審查和修改的作業問題，通過 Aplia 與印刷書內容無縫對接。** 作者團隊已審查並修訂所有 Aplia 問題集，以消除文本內容與線上測試問題之間的潛在脫節，這在競爭教材中經常出現。此外，本版提供所有章末學習問題和問題的數位版本，讓您有更多評估選擇。
- **因果鏈線上遊戲幫助學生可視化複雜的經濟關係。** 這是許多像您一樣的教師的最愛，Tucker 的成功因果鏈在本版的許多圖表中都有包含。這種學習工具幫助學生使用簡單的框圖可視化複雜的經濟關係，說明一個變化如何引起另一個變化。印刷書中的每個因果鏈在 MindTap 中都有相應的動畫因果鏈遊戲。這個遊戲使學習變得有趣且容易成功。

作者簡介

Dr. Irvin B. Tucker spent more than 30 years teaching introductory economics at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. He earned his B.S. in economics at North Carolina State University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of South Carolina. He was a long-time member of the National Council on Economic Education. Dr. Tucker served as executive director of the S.C. Council of Education and director of the Center for Economic Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He was recognized for his ability to relate basic principles to economic issues and public policy. His work has received national recognition with awards, including the Meritorious Levy Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education, the Federation of Independent Business Award for Postsecondary Educator of the Year in Entrepreneurship and Economic Education and the Freedom Foundation's George Washington Medal for Excellence in Economic Education. In addition, Dr. Tucker's research has been published in numerous professional journal articles on a wide range of topics, including industrial organization, entrepreneurship and economics of education. In addition to this title, Dr. Tucker authored other highly successful economics books that have shaped students' lives and impacted economics education.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

伊爾文·B·塔克博士在北卡羅來納大學夏洛特分校教授入門經濟學超過30年。他在北卡羅來納州立大學獲得經濟學學士學位，並在南卡羅來納大學獲得經濟學碩士和博士學位。他是全國經濟教育委員會的長期成員。塔克博士曾擔任南卡羅來納州教育委員會的執行董事以及北卡羅來納大學夏洛特分校經濟教育中心的主任。他因能將基本原則與經濟問題和公共政策聯繫起來而受到認可。他的工作獲得全國認可，並獲得多項獎項，包括私人企業教育卓越獎的優異獎、獨立商業聯合會的年度高等教育創業與經濟教育者獎，以及自由基金會的喬治·華盛頓經濟教育卓越獎。此外，塔克博士的研究已發表在多篇專業期刊文章中，涵蓋工業組織、創業和教育經濟學等廣泛主題。除了這本書，塔克博士還撰寫了其他多本成功的經濟學書籍，這些書籍影響了學生的生活並對經濟教育產生了深遠的影響。

目錄大綱

Table of Contents
Part I: INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS.
1. Introducing the Economic Way of Thinking.
2. Production Possibilities, Opportunity Cost, and Economic Growth.

Part II: MICROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS.
3. Market Demand and Supply.
4. Markets in Action.
5. Elasticity.
6. Consumer Choice Theory.
7. Production Costs.

Part III. MARKET STRUCTURES.
8. Perfect Competition.
9. Monopoly.
10. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly.
11. Labor Markets.

Part IV: MICROECONOMIC POLICY ISSUES.
12. Income Distribution, Poverty, and Discrimination.
13. Antitrust and Regulation.
14. Environmental Economics.

PART V: MACROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS.
15. Gross Domestic Product.
16. Business Cycles and Unemployment.
17. Inflation.

Part VI: MACROECONOMIC THEORY AND POLICY.
18. The Keynesian Model.
19. The Keynesian Model in Action.
20. Aggregate Demand and Supply.
21. Fiscal Policy.
22. The Public Sector.
23. Federal Deficits, Surpluses, and the National Debt.

Part VII: MONEY, BANKING, AND MONETARY POLICY.
24. Money and the Federal Reserve System.
25. Money Creation.
26. Monetary Policy.
27. The Phillips Curve and Expectations Theory.

Part VIII: THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY.
28. International Trade and Finance.
29. Economies in Transition.
30. Growth and the Less-Developed Countries.

Glossary.
Index.

目錄大綱(中文翻譯)

Table of Contents

Part I: INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS.

1. Introducing the Economic Way of Thinking.

2. Production Possibilities, Opportunity Cost, and Economic Growth.



Part II: MICROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS.

3. Market Demand and Supply.

4. Markets in Action.

5. Elasticity.

6. Consumer Choice Theory.

7. Production Costs.



Part III. MARKET STRUCTURES.

8. Perfect Competition.

9. Monopoly.

10. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly.

11. Labor Markets.



Part IV: MICROECONOMIC POLICY ISSUES.

12. Income Distribution, Poverty, and Discrimination.

13. Antitrust and Regulation.

14. Environmental Economics.



PART V: MACROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS.

15. Gross Domestic Product.

16. Business Cycles and Unemployment.

17. Inflation.



Part VI: MACROECONOMIC THEORY AND POLICY.

18. The Keynesian Model.

19. The Keynesian Model in Action.

20. Aggregate Demand and Supply.

21. Fiscal Policy.

22. The Public Sector.

23. Federal Deficits, Surpluses, and the National Debt.



Part VII: MONEY, BANKING, AND MONETARY POLICY.

24. Money and the Federal Reserve System.

25. Money Creation.

26. Monetary Policy.

27. The Phillips Curve and Expectations Theory.



Part VIII: THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY.

28. International Trade and Finance.

29. Economies in Transition.

30. Growth and the Less-Developed Countries.



Glossary.

Index.

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