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Economics: Principles, Applications, and Tools, 5/E
ISBN-10: 013223565X
ISBN-13: 9780132235655
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 768 pp
Published: 11/29/2006
Status: Instock
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O’Sullivan/Sheffrin/Perez 5e uses questions to drive student interest, then applications to illustrate concepts, and then tools to practice economic concepts.
Students come into their first Economics course thinking they will better understand the economy around them; the choices our government, international governments, businesses, and individuals make. Unfortunately, many don’t get answers to those questions when they complete the course.
O/S/P uses chapter opening questions, applications that explain and tie to those questions throughout the chapter, and chapter ending tools to help students actively internalize economics.
O’Sullivan/Sheffrin/Perez 5e uses questions to drive student interest, then applications to illustrate concepts, and then tools to practice economic concepts.
Students come into their first Economics course thinking they will better understand the economy around them; the choices our government, international governments, businesses, and individuals make. Unfortunately, many don’t get answers to those questions when they complete the course.
O/S/P uses chapter opening questions, applications that explain and tie to those questions throughout the chapter, and chapter ending tools to help students actively internalize economics.
How do you and how does your current text tie together the concepts in economics to the real world events to which they relate?
Questions that open every chapter have an associated “application” in the chapter as well as an associated end-of-chapter question.
Brand new Chapter Opening questions (p. 66) lead off every chapter and are paired with in-chapter applications (p. 85-89) that answer those questions and bring the economic concepts to life for students. Exercises that test the student’s understanding of the question, concepts, and application appear in the end-of-chapter materials. p. 95
Does your current text correspond to the online homework system?
Every end-of-chapter question is replicated in MyEconLab.
All of the end-of-chapter text questions are replicated in MyEconLab with the same numbers to make creating homework easier for instructors, and remediation easier for students.
Other Points of distinction:
How do you string together the economic principles so they form a rationale of thought for your students?
1) The Principle of Opportunity Cost
2) The Marginal Principle (comparing marginal benefits and marginal costs)
3) The Principle of Diminishing Returns
4) The Principle of Voluntary Exchange
5) The Real-Nominal Principle (distinguishing real from nominal magnitudes).
Do you or would you like to incorporate economic experiments in your course?
Economic experiments–actively involve the student in role-playing as consumers, producers, and policy makers.
Do you think your current text is too cluttered with boxes and colors that take students’ focus off of the important material?
Streamlined Design with no boxes—the new edition of O/S/P has no boxed features that draw students’ attention away from the core concepts.
All boxes have been changed and material has been moved to an “application” that flows in the body of the chapter material so it will not distract students and so they will not skip the material.
How do you use your text’s end-of-chapter material?
End-Of-Chapter material has been expanded and reorganized
The end-of-chapter material in 5e has been expanded and reorganized around the major sections of the chapter and its applications so the students can better organize his/her study plan.
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How do you and how does your current text tie together the concepts in economics to the real world events to which they relate?
Questions that open every chapter have an associated “application” in the chapter as well as an associated end-of-chapter question.
Brand new Chapter Opening questions (p. 66) lead off every chapter and are paired with in-chapter applications (p. 85-89) that answer those questions and bring the economic concepts to life for students. Exercises that test the student’s understanding of the question, concepts, and application appear in the end-of-chapter materials. p. 95
Does your current text correspond to the online homework system?
Every end-of-chapter question is replicated in MyEconLab.
All of the end-of-chapter text questions are replicated in MyEconLab with the same numbers to make creating homework easier for instructors, and remediation easier for students.
Do you think your current text is too cluttered with boxes and colors that take students’ focus off of the important material?
Streamlined Design with no boxes–the new edition of O/S/P has no boxed features that draw students’ attention away from the core concepts.
All boxes have been changed and material has been moved to an “application” that flows in the body of the chapter material so it will not distract students and so they will not skip the material.
How do you use your text’s end-of-chapter material?
End-Of-Chapter material has been expanded and reorganized
The e-o-c material in 5e has been expanded and reorganized around the major sections of the chapter and its applications so the students can better organize his/her study plan.
Microeconomics Content Changes (please refer to the chapter-by-chapter changes tool on the doc.lib for very detailed info).
When do you prefer to cover Market Efficiency?
O/S/P 5e now covers Market efficiency before consumer choice as per reviewer requests.
This swapping of chapter order will help students better understand the Consumer Choice chapter since they will have covered Market Efficiency first.
Do you cover indifference curves?
The 5th edition moved its coverage of indifference curves to an appendix and uses utility to teach consumer choice in the body of the chapter.
This is the way it used to be covered in the 3rd ed of O’Sullivan/Sheffrin and customers requested this change.
Do you like to incorporate interesting applications that students can relate to?
There are tons of cool applications that students will dig into…
There are 26 new applications on topics such as outsourcing (Chapter 3, p. 50), the connection between catalytic converters and jewelry (Chapter 4, p. 90), why bumper crops are bad for farmers (Chapter 20, p. 431), the cost of import restrictions (Chapter 21, p. 462), the cost of producing the iPod (Chapter 23, p. 518), competition between national brands and store brands (Chapter 26. p. 579), genetic testing and insurance (Chapter 29, p. 649), the external benefits from LoJack (Chapter 30, p. 667), the external cost of young drivers (Chapter 31, p. 689), the tradeoffs from immigration (Chapter 32, p. 705), and the effect of competition on trucker wages (Chapter 33, p. 726).
Macroeconomics Content Changes--please refer to the chapter-by-chapter changes tool on the doc.lib for very detailed info.
The 5th edition has completely updated graphs and applications…
We have updated examples, graphs, and tables with the latest data available. There are 20 new Applications, including how to use value added to measure the true size of Wal-Mart (Chapter 5, p. 110), young discouraged workers in Japan (Chapter 6, p. 119), how increases in growth rates affect child labor in developing countries (Chapter 8, p. 159), the implications of an aging populations forSocial Security, Medicare, and Medicaid (Chapter 10, p. 210), and inflation targeting (Chapter 17, p. 366).
Single Volume Edition Content Changes--please refer to the chapter-by-chapter changes for Microeconomics and Macroeconomic tools on the doc.lib for very detailed info.
The Macroeconomics Chapters in the Single Volume edition have been moved BEFORE the Microeconomics Chapters
This change better reflects the way the 2 semester sequence is often taught, and helps students get excited about economics earlier due to the high-relevancy of MACROECONOMIC material.
PART 1: Introduction and Key Principles
Ch 1: Introduction: What is Economics?
Appendix: Using Graphs & Percentages
Ch 2: Key Principles of Economics
Ch 3: Exchange and Markets
Ch 4: Demand, Supply, and Market Equilibrium
Part 2: The Basic Concepts in Macroeconomics
Ch 5: Measuring a Nation’s Production and Income
Ch 6: Unemployment and Inflation
Part 3: The Economy in the Long RunCh 7: The Economy at Full Employment
Ch 8: Why Do Economies Grow?
Appendix: A Model of Capital Deepening
Part 4: Economic Fluctuations and Fiscal PolicyCh 9: AD/AS
Ch 10: Fiscal Policy
Ch 11: The Income Expenditure Model
Appendix: Formulas for Equilibrium Income & the Multiplier
Ch 12: Investment and Financial Markets
Part 5: Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy
Ch 13: Money and the Banking System
Appendix: Formula for Deposit Creation
Ch 14: The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy
Part 6: Inflation, Unemployment, and Economic Policy
Ch 15: Modern Macroeconomics: From the Short Run to the Long Run.
Ch 16: The Dynamics of Inflation and Unemployment
Ch 17:Macroeconomic Policy Debates
Part 7: The International Economy
Ch 18: International Trade and Public Policy
Ch 19: The World of International Finance
Part 8: A Closer Look at Demand and Supply
Ch 20: Elasticity: A Measure of Responsiveness
Ch 21: Market Efficiency and Government Intervention
Ch 22: Consumer Choice with Utility Theory
Appendix: Consumer Choice with Indifference Curves
Part 9: Market Structures and PricingCh 23: Production Technology and Cost
Ch 24: Perfect Competition: Short Run and Long Run
Ch 25: Monopoly and Price Discrimination
Ch 26: Market Entry and Monopolistic Competition
Ch 27: Oligopoly and Strategic Behavior
Ch 28: Controlling Market Power: Antitrust and Regulation
Part 10: Externalities and InformationCh 29: Imperfect Information and Disappearing Markets
Ch 30: Public Goods, Taxes, and Public Choice
Ch 31: External Costs and Environmental Policy
Part 11: The Labor Market and Income Distribution
Ch 32: The Labor Market, Income, and Poverty
Ch 33: Unions, Monopsony, and Imperfect InformationArthur O'Sullivan is a professor of economics at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. After receiving his B.S. in economics at the University of Oregon, he spent two years in the Peace Corps, working with city planners in the Philippines. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1981 and has taught at the University of California, Davis, and Oregon State University, winning several teaching awards at both schools. He recently accepted an endowed professorship at Lewis and Clark College, where he teaches microeconomics and urban economics. He is the author of the best-selling textbook, Urban Economics, currently in its sixth edition.
Professor O'Sullivan's research explores economic issues concerning urban land use, environmental protection, and public policy. His articles have appeared in many economics journals, including the Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, National Tax Journal, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Law and Economics.
Professor O'Sullivan lives with his family in Lake Oswego, Oregon. For recreation, he enjoys hiking, boogie-boarding, paragliding, and squash.
Steven M. Sheffrin is dean of the division of social sciences and professor of economics at the University of California, Davis. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton University, Oxford University, and the London School of Economics and has served as a financial economist with the Office of Tax Analysis of the United States Department of Treasury. He has been on the faculty of the University of California, Davis, since 1976 and has served as the chairman of the department of economics. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Professor Sheffrin is the author of 10 other books and monographs and over 100 articles in the fields of macroeconomics, public finance, and international economics. His most recent books include Rational Expectations (second edition) and Property Taxes and Tax Revolts: The Legacy of Proposition 13 (with Arthur O'Sullivan and Terri Sexton).
Professor Sheffrin has taught macroeconomics at all levels, from large introduction to principles classes (enrollments of 400) to graduate classes for doctoral students. He is the recipient of the Thomas Mayer Distinguished Teaching Award in economics.
He lives with his wife Anjali (also an economist) in Davis, California, and has two daughters who have studied economics. In addition to a passion for current affairs and travel, he plays a tough game of tennis.
Stephen Perez is chair of the economics department at California State University, Sacramento. After receiving his B.A. in economics at the University of California, San Diego, he received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Davis, in 1994. He taught economics at Virginia Commonwealth University and Washington State University before coming to California State University, Sacramento, in 2001. He teaches macroeconomics at all levels as well as econometrics, sports economics, labor economics, and mathematics for economists.
Professor Perez's research explores most macroeconomic topics. In particular, he is interested in evaluating the ability of econometric techniques to discover the truth, issues of causality in macroeconomics, and sports economics. His articles have appeared in many economics journals, including the Journal of Monetary Economics, Econometrics Journal, Economics Letters, Journal of Economic Methodology, Public Finance and Management, Journal of Economics and Business, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Applied Economics, and Journal of Macroeconomics.
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