Economics Today: The Macro View

by Roger LeRoy Miller

Readers learn best when they see a concept applied in the context of examples they understand. That is why Economics Today: The Micro View is so successful when readers hail from a wide variety of backgrounds. An abundance of relentlessly current, news-worthy examples motivate every chapter and reflect the interests of today's diverse reader population.
Introduction: The Nature of Economics; Scarcity and the World of Trade-Offs; Demand and Supply; Extensions of Demand and Supply Analysis; The Public Sector and Public Choice; Taxes, Transfers, and Public Spending; Dimensions of Microeconomics: Consumer Choice; Demand and Supply Elasticity; Rents, Profits, and the Financial Environment of Business; Market Structure, Resource Allocation, and Regulation: The Firm: Cost and Output Determination; Perfect Competition; Monopoly; Monopolistic Competition; Oligopoly and Strategic Behavior; Regulation and Antitrust in a Globalized Economy; Labor Resources and the Environment: The Labor Market: Demand, Supply, and Outsourcing; Unions and Labor Market Monopoly Power; Income, Poverty, and Health Care; Environmental Economics; Global Economics: Comparative Advantage and the Open Economy; Exchange Rates and the Balance of Payments.
For all readers interested in principles of microeconomics.

Genres: Economics

512 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

Roger LeRoy Miller studied at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago. He has been on the staff of a number of universities, including the University of Washington; Clemson University; and the University of Miami School of Law, where he taught about intellectual property and entertainment law. A widely respected author, he has contributed to numerous periodicals, as well as publishing several textbooks.

Reviews

[Glen · Rating 5 out of 5]

A page turner to the very end. As someone who never took economics in college, I found this book enlightening and fulfilling. It uses a lot of charts and diagrams which were pretty cool. Only drawback was that it's a bit dated. A must-read for anyone trying to make sense of the current global crises and monetary policies being thrown around.

[Greg · Rating 3 out of 5]

Miller writes a good introductory Macroeconomics textbook. It covers the more recent developments in economic theory since the 1970s and 1980s.

[Ta N. · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read through such a thick textbook... done with economics!

[Elizabeth]

Good book for school and free

[Kayla · Rating 4 out of 5]

Macro-Economics 2301

[Aaron Blake · Rating 4 out of 5]

i don't recommend this for feminists.
i read fourth edition of this book, it was great. However, information was little outdated, you can see from the first paragraph. but theories and techniques is great and easy to learn

[Helga · Rating 4 out of 5]

Does the job. The disk is as useful as textbook disks can be. The pain! The agony! Economics can be as fun as a poke in the eye with a sharp stick! Who am I kidding, it's been 3 years since I had this course and I have no idea what I learned in it. The cover is pretty, though.