保罗 萨缪尔森(Paul A. Samuelson),毕业于芝加哥大学和哈佛大学,是麻省理工学院经济学系的创始人。他的许多著作使他在年轻时就赢得了世界性的声誉。他于 1970 年获得诺贝尔经济学奖,是美国第一个获得此项大奖的经济学家。萨缪尔森教授曾长期为美国 《新闻周刊》的经济学栏目撰稿,曾担任美国总统约翰 肯尼迪的经济顾问,属于那种能够同普通民众进行交流和沟通的为数极少的科学家之一。萨缪尔森常出席国会听证,并为联邦储备、财政部、许多私人机构和非营利机构担任咨询专家。除了在麻省理工学院做研究工作和经常打网球之外,萨缪尔森教授还是纽约大学的客座教授。
威廉 诺德豪斯(William D. Nordhaus),美国杰出经济学家之一,出生于新墨西哥州的阿尔布开克。本科就读于耶鲁大学,经济学博士学位在麻省理工学院获得。现任耶鲁大学斯特林经济学教授,考尔斯经济学研究基金会理事,国家经济研究局(NBER)研究员。诺德豪斯的经济学研究范围很宽,包括环境、能源、技术变革和经济增长,以及利润和生产率的增长趋势。此外,对经济政策研究非常感兴趣。1977~1979 年是卡特总统经济顾问委员会的成员,曾多次出席政府顾问委员会的会议,不时为《纽约图书评论》和其他报刊撰文。在耶鲁大学他主讲经济学原理课程。
目錄:
A Centrist Proclamation xvi
Preface xviii
For the Student: Economics and the Internet xxiii
PART ONE BASIC CONCEPTS
Chapter 1 The Central Concepts of Economics
Appendix 1 How to Read Graphs
Chapter 2 The Modern Mixed Economy
Chapter 3 Basic Elements of Supply and Demand
PART TWO MICROECONOMICS: SUPPLY, DEMAND, AND PRODUCT MARKETS
Chapter 4 Supply and Demand: Elasticity and Applications
Chapter 5 Demand and Consumer Behavior
Appendix 5 Geometrical Analysis of Consumer Equilibrium
Chapter 6 Production and Business Organization
Chapter 7 Analysis of Costs
Appendix 7 Production, Cost Theory, and Decisions of the Firm
Chapter 8 Analysis of Perfectly Competitive Markets
Chapter 9 Imperfect Competition and Monopoly
Chapter 10 Competition among the Few
Chapter 11 Economics of Uncertainty
PART THREE FACTOR MARKETS: LABOR, LAND, AND CAPITAL
Chapter 12 How Markets Determine Incomes
Chapter 13 The Labor Market
Chapter 14 Land, Natural Resources, and the Environment
Chapter 15 Capital, Interest, and Profits
PART FOUR APPLICATIONS OF ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES
Chapter 16 Government Taxation and Expenditure
Chapter 17 Efficiency vs. Equality: The Big Tradeoff
Chapter 18 International Trade
PART FIVE MACROECONOMICS: ECONOMIC GROWTH AND BUSINESS CYCLES
Chapter 19 Overview of Macroeconomics
Appendix 19 Macroeconomic Data for the United States
Chapter 20 Measuring Economic Activity
Chapter 21 Consumption and Investment
Chapter 22 Business Cycles and Aggregate Demand
Chapter 23 Money and the Financial System
Chapter 24 Monetary Policy and the Economy
PART SiX GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Chapter 25 Economic Growth
Chapter 26 The Challenge of Economic Development
Chapter 27 Exchange Rates and the International Financial System
Chapter 28 Open-Economy Macroeconomics
PART SEVEN UNEMPLOYMENT, INFLATION, AND ECONOMIC POLICY
Chapter 29 Unemployment and the Foundations of Aggregate Supply
Chapter 30 Inflation
Chapter 31 Frontiers of Macroeconomics
Glossary of Terms
Index