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The United States and the World
The United States enjoys one of the highest standards of living in the world and one of the lowest tax burdens of the industrialized nations.
Table of Contents
Economics: Principles in Action
Unit 1 Introduction to Economics
Chapter 1 What Is Economics?
Chapter 2 Economic Systems
Chapter 3 American Free Enterprise
Unit 2 How Markets Work
- Section 1 Benefits of Free Enterprise
- Section 2 Promoting Growth and Stability
- Section 3 Providing Public Goods
- Section 4 Providing a Safety Net
- Real-life Case Study: Government and the Interstate Highway System
- Chapter 3 Assessment
- The Wall Street Journal. Classroom Edition Debating Current Issues: Health-Care Costs
Chapter 4 Demand
Chapter 5 Supply
Chapter 6 Prices
Chapter 7 Market Structures
Unit 3 Business and Labor
Unit 4 Money, Banking, and Finance
Unit 5 Measuring Economic Performance
Unit 6 Government and the Economy
- Section 1 Perfect Competition
- Section 2 Monopoly
- Section 3 Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
- Section 4 Regulation and Deregulation
- Real-life Case Study: Regulating Cable Television
- Chapter 7 Assessment
- The Wall Street Journal. Classroom Edition Debating Current Issues: Oil and Energy Dependence
Chapter 14 Taxes and Government Spending
Chapter 15 Fiscal Policy
Chapter 16 The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy
Unit 7 The Global Economy
Chapter 17 International Trade
Chapter 18 Economic Development and Transition
Reference Section
- Section 1 Levels of Development
- Section 2 Issues in Development
- Section 3 Financing Development
- Section 4 Transitions to Free Enterprise
- Real-life Case Study: The World Bank and Economic Assistance
- Chapter 18 Assessment
- The Wall Street Journal. Classroom Edition Debating Current Issues: Tariffs and Trade