Part I: Introduction to Economics and the Economy1Limits, Alternatives, Choices2The Market System and the Circular FlowPart II: Price, Quantity, and Efficiency3Demand, Supply, and Market Equilibrium4Market Failures: Public Goods and Externalities5Government's Role and Government FailurePart III: GDP, Growth, and Instability6An Introduction to Macroeconomics7Measuring Domestic Output and National Income8Economic Growth9Business Cycles, Unemployment, and InflationPart IV: Macroeconomic Models and Fiscal Policy10Basic Macroeconomic Relationships11The Aggregate Expenditures Model12Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply13Fiscal Policy, Deficits, and DebtPart V: Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy14Money, Banking, and Financial Institutions15Money Creation16Interest Rates and Monetary Policy17Financial EconomicsPart VI: Extensions and Issues18Extending the Analysis of Aggregate Supply19Current Issues in Macro Theory and PolicyPart VII: International Economics20International Trade21The Balance of Payments, Exchange Rates, and Trade Deficits21WThe Economics of Developing CountriesCOI 1The United States in the Global EconomyCOI 2Previous International Exchange Rate Systems
Stanley L. Brue did his undergraduate work at Augustana College
(South Dakota) and received its Distinguished Achievement Award in
1991. He received his Ph.D. from the University of NebraskaLincoln.
He is a professor at Pacific Lutheran University, where he has been
honored as a recipient of the Burlington Northern Faculty
Achievement Award. Professor Brue has also received the national
Leavey Award for excellence in economic education. He has served as
national president and chair of the Board of Trustees of Omicron
Delta Epsilon International Economics Honorary. He is coauthor of
Economic Scenes, Fifth edition (Prentice-Hall), Contemporary Labor
Economics, Seventh edition, Essentials of Economics, First edition
(both The McGraw-Hill Companies), and The Evolution of Economic
Thought, Seventh edition (South-Western).
Sean is an assistant professor of economics at Scripps College in
Claremont, California. He is the author of the international best
seller "Economics for Dummies" as well as the coauthor, along with
Campbell McConnell and Stanley Brue, of the world's best-selling
college economics textbook, "Economics: Principles, Problems, and
Policies".
An avid martial artist, Sean is a former Aikido national champion
and has coached five of his students to U.S. national aikido
titles.
A recurring commentator on FOX Business, ABC News, and NPR, Sean
holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Southern
California and a Ph.D. in economics from U.C. Berkeley, where he
completed his dissertation under the supervision of Nobel Laureate
George Akerlof.
Sean's research focuses on the often puzzling and seemingly
irrational behavior of stock market investors, but he's also
investigated topics as wide-ranging as the factors that affect
customer tipping behavior at restaurants and why you see a lot of
unionized workers only in certain industries.
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