1.This is the second edition of the bestselling Asian adaptation of N. Gregory Mankiw’s market leading textbook, Principles of Economics. While maintaining all the strengths of the first Asian edition and the original book, Professor Euston Quah and Dr. Peter Wilson have provided updated materials and examples that are most relevant to students in Asia.
2.The book reflects Asian economic institutions and policies, features companies that operate in the region, and includes economic data from various Asian countries. It, however, retains a strong international focus to enable students to place the Asian experience in a global context.
3.The book provides students with a solid foundation to the principles and concepts of economics. Written for students taking economics for the first time, it focuses on core concepts and how these concepts are applied to the real world. Examples and cases throughout the text show students the relevance of the theory they are learning.
PART I: INTRODUCTION
Ch 1 Ten Principles of Economics
Ch 2 Thinking Like an Economist
Ch 3 Interdependence and the Gains from Trade
PART II: SUPPLY AND DEMAND I: HOW MARKETS WORK
Ch 4 The Market Forces of Supply and Demand
Ch 5 Elasticity and Its Application
Ch 6 Supply, Demand, and Government Policies
PART III: SUPPLY AND DEMAND II: MARKETS AND WELFARE
Ch 7 Consumers, Producers, and the Efficiency of Markets
Ch 8 Application: The Costs of Taxation
Ch 9 Application: International Trade
PART IV: THE ECONOMICS OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR
Ch10 Externalities
Ch11 Public Goods and Common Resources
Ch12 The Design of the Tax System
PART V: FIRM BEHAVIOR AND THE ORGANIZATION OF INDUSTRY
Ch13 The Costs of Production
Ch14 Firms in Competitive Markets
Ch15 Monopoly
Ch16 Oligopoly
Ch17 Monopolistic Competition
PART VI: THE ECONOMICS OF LABOR MARKETS
Ch18 The Markets for the Factors of Production
Ch19 Earnings and Discrimination
Ch20 Income Inequality and Poverty
PART VII: TOPICS FOR FURTHER STUDY
Ch21 The Theory of Consumer Choice
Ch22 Frontiers of Microeconomics
PART VIII: THE DATA FOR MACROECONOMICS
Ch23 Measuring a Nation’s Income
Ch24 Measuring the Cost of Living
PART IX: THE REAL ECONOMY IN THE LONG RUN
Ch25 Production and Growth
Ch26 Saving, Investment, and the Financial System
Ch27 The Basic Tools of Finance
Ch28 Unemployment and Its Natural Rate
PART X: MONEY AND PRICES IN THE LONG RUN
Ch29 The Monetary System
Ch30 Money Growth and Inflation
PART XI: THE MACROECONOMICS OF OPEN ECONOMIES
Ch31 Open-Economy Macroeconomics : Basic Concepts
Ch32 A Macroeconomic Theory of the Open Economy
PART XII: SHORT-RUN ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS
Ch33 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
Ch34 The Influence of Monetary and Fiscal Policy on Aggregate Demand
Ch35 The Short-Run Tradeoff between Inflation and Unemployment
PART XIII: FINAL THOUGHTS
Ch36 Five Debates over Macroeconomic Policy
◎作者：N. Gregory Mankiw
現職：Harvard University
◎作者：Euston Quah
現職：Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
◎作者：Peter Wilson
現職：National University of Singapore (formerly)