Economics - Dean Karlan

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Résumé :
Built to focus on what matters to students in today's high-tech, globalized world, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Morduch's Economics represents a new generation of products, optimized for digital delivery and available with best-in-class adaptive study resources in Mc-Graw Hill Connect. The second edition delivers core economic concepts along with exciting new ideas in economic though and strives to keep students engaged by confronting issues that are important in the world. This text combines a familiar curriculum with material from new research and applied areas such as finance, behavioral economics, and the political economy. Students and faculty will find content that breaks down barriers between what takes place in the classroom and what happens in our nation and broader world, with applications that are driven by empirical evidence, data, and research.Karlan and Morduch show students that economics is a tool to better one's own life and promote better public and business policies in the world. At the same time, this second edition challenges students to reach their own conclusions about what better really means.

Biographie:
Dean Karlan is Professor of Economics and Finance at Northwestern University and President and Founder of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA). Dean started IPA in 2002 with two aims: to help learn what works and what does not in the fight against poverty and other social problems around the world, and then to implement successful ideas at scale. IPA has worked in over 50 countries, with 1,000 employees around the world. Deans personal research focuses on using field experiments to learn more about the effectiveness of financial services for low-income households, with a focus on using behavioral economics approaches to improve financial products?and services. His research includes related areas, such as building income for those in extreme poverty, charitable fund-raising, voting, health, and education. Dean is also co founder of stickK.com, a start-up that helps people use commitment contracts to achieve personal goals, such as losing weight or completing a problem set on time, and in 2015 he founded Impact Matters, an organization that helps assess whether charitable?organizations are using and producing appropriate evidence?of impact. Dean is a Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and an Executive Committee member of the Board of the M.I.T. Jameel Poverty Action Lab. In 2007 he was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He is co editor of the Journal of Development Economics and on the editorial board of American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. He holds a BA from University of Virginia, an MPP and MBA from University of Chicago, and a PhD in Economics from MIT. In 2016 he coauthored?Failing?in the Field, and in 2011 he coauthored More Than Good Intentions:Improving the Ways the Worlds Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy.

Sommaire:
PART 1 The Power of Economics
1 Economics and Life
2 Specialization and Exchange
PART 2 Supply and Demand
3 Markets
4 Elasticity
5 Efficiency
6 Government Intervention
PART 3 Individual Decisions
7 Consumer Behavior
8 Behavioral Economics: A Closer Look at Decision Making
9 Game theory and Strategic Thinking
10 Information
11 Time and Uncertainty
PART 4 Firm Decisions
12 The Costs of Production
13 Perfect Competition
14 Monopoly
15 Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
16 The Factors of Production
17 International Trade
PART 5 Public Economics
18 Externalities
19 Public Goods and Common Resources
20 Taxation and the Public Budget
21 Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination
22 Political Choices
23 Public Policy and Choice Architecture
PART 6 The Data of Macroeconomics
24 Measuring GDP
25 The Cost of Living
PART 7 Labor Markets and Economic Growth
26 Unemployment and the Labor Market
27 Economic Growth
PART 8 The Economy in the Short and Long Run
28 Aggregate Expenditure
29 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
30 Fiscal Policy
PART 9: The Financial System and Institutions
31 The Basics of Finance
32 Money and the Monetary System
33 Inflation
34 Financial Crisis
PART 10: International Policy Issues
35 Open-Market Macroeconomics
36 Development Economics