R&L Education
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-1-57886-961-9 • Hardback • January 2009 • $147.00 • (£113.00)
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Milica Bookman is a professor of economics at St. Joseph's University. Aleksandra Bookman is studying history and producing at New York University.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 General Topics
Chapter 3 Rational Behavior and Economic Incentives
Chapter 4 Scarcity, Choice, and Opportunity Cost
Chapter 5 Markets
Chapter 6 Supply and Demand
Chapter 7 Specialization
Chapter 8 Gains from Exchange
Chapter 9 Prices
Part 10 Microeconomic Topics
Chapter 11 Price Elasticity
Chapter 12 Consumption
Chapter 13 Production
Chapter 14 Costs
Chapter 15 Profits
Chapter 16 Efficiency, Productivity, and Innovation
Chapter 17 Property Rights and the Rule of Law
Chapter 18 Externalities
Chapter 19 Firms
Chapter 20 Perfect Competition and Monopolistic Competition
Chapter 21 Monopoly and Oligopoly
Part 22 Macroeconomic Topics
Chapter 23 Economic Growth
Chapter 24 Business Cycle
Chapter 25 Capital and Investment
Chapter 26 Human Capital
Chapter 27 Entrepreneurs
Chapter 28 Inflation
Chapter 29 Employment
Chapter 30 Personal Income
Chapter 31 Money
Chapter 32 Banking
Chapter 33 Government Revenue and Expenditure
Chapter 34 Government Intervention
Chapter 35 Inequality and Poverty
Chapter 36 Globalization
Chapter 37 Command Economies
Using movie clips and fiction passages to illustrate economic principles is a terrific idea that really livens up the classroom. This approach will work very well.
— Bradley Schiller, professor of economics at American University, author of The Macro Economy Today and The Micro Economy Today
Economics in Film and Fiction is an intriguing and original supplement for the principles course. It should help pique student interest in economics and stimulate lively class discussion.
— Anthony Patrick O'Brien, professor of economics, Lehigh University; co-author of Macroeconomics
The authors have done a good job of developing economic applications that are part of most students' upbringing and therefore more interesting to them than the standard discussions of current economic events of no immediate relevance to them. A particularly good feature of the book is that it is self-contained with all clips and passages nicely summarized.
— William Holmes, Professor of Economics at Temple University
A Chinese proverb says "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." Economics in Film and Fiction is a wonderful teaching tool because students see economic concepts practiced in a familiar context through a medium they enjoy. They will remember and understand the ideas in a deeper and more permanent way.
— Larry Singell, professor of economics at the University of Oregon