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Economic Issues Today

Name: Economic Issues Today
Author: Robert B. Carson,etc.,Wade L. Thomas,Jason Hecht
ISBN: 9780765608376

by Robert B. Carson, etc., Wade L. Thomas, Jason Hecht

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Highly accessible and relevant in today's economic environment, Economic Issues Today provides a unique approach to understanding what the practice of economics is all about. Carson covers 14 current economic issues, providing for each an analysis and proposed solution from three different ideological perspectives: Conservative, Liberal, and Radical.

With the contributions of new coauthors Hecht and Thomas, the entire text has been thoroughly revised and brought up to date. The well-received chapters on the environment, agriculture, consumer welfare, competition, deregulation, stabilization, unemployment, the federal budget, and economic planning have all been extensively revised and updated, and the authors have added entirely new chapters on taxation, inflation, and international economics.

Like all its predecessors, Economic Issues Today, Sixth Edition, is written specifically for an undergraduate audience; it requires no background in economic analysis and avoids economic jargon in favor of plain everyday language.

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The new edition of a textbook for undergraduates introducing conservative, liberal, and radical analyses of broad American economic issues, both macroeconomic and microeconomic. Fourteen chapters separately examine agricultural competition, consumer welfare, environmental protection, deregulation, income distribution, taxation, economic instability, budget balancing, unemployment, inflation, international economics, and market versus regulatory controls. Each chapter presents solutions based on conservative free market capitalism, liberal regulated capitalism, and radical rejection of production-for-profit capitalism. Also published as two paperback volumes: and . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)