Front cover: "Coreecon"

CORE Economics Education.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. The Capitalist revolution --
Ch. 2. Technological change, population and growth --
Ch. 3. Scarcity, work and choice --
Ch. 4. Social interactions --
Ch. 5. Property and power: Mutual gains and conflict --
Ch. 6. The firm: Owners, managers and employees --
Ch. 7. The firm and its customers --
Ch. 8. Supply and demand: Price-taking and competitive markets --
Ch. 9. The Labour market: Wages, profits, and unemployment --
Ch. 10. Banks, money and the credit market --
Ch. 11. Price-setting, rent-seeking, and market dynamics --
Ch. 12. Markets, efficiency and public policy --
Ch. 13. Economic fluctuations and unemployment --
Ch. 14. Unemployment and fiscal policy --
Ch. 15. Inflation, unemployment and monetary policy --
Ch. 16. Technological progress, employment and living standards in the long run --
Ch. 17. Capstone: The Great Depression, golden age and global financial crisis --
Ch. 18. Capstone: The nation and the world economy --
Ch. 19. Capstone: Economic inequality --
Ch. 20. Capstone: Economics of the environment --
Ch. 21. Capstone: Innovation, information and the networked economy --
Ch. 22. Economics, politics, and public policy.

The only introductory economics text to equip students to address today's pressing problems by mastering the conceptual and quantitative tools of contemporary economics.

- A new approach that integrates recent developments in economics including contract theory, strategic interaction, behavioural economics and financial instability

- Challenges students to address inequality, climate change, economic instability, wealth creation and innovation and other problems

- Provides a unified treatment of micro- and macroeconomics

- Motivates all models and concepts by evidence and real-world applications.