Economics or From Dissertation to Book

Economics

Author: David C Colander

A real-world look at economics and its applications

Economics is renowned for its conversational writing style, and for treating standard economic concepts as tools for making judgments as opposed to inflexible rules. This latest edition features updated international analysis along with more in-depth coverage of increasingly vital outsourcing issues than any other principles text. A new discussion of behavioral economics includes an examination of the work of Richard Thaler, the ultimatum game, and the status quo bias.

David C. Colander is a professor at Middlebury College.

Table of Contents:

PART 1 Thinking Like an Economist 5
1 Economics and Economic Reasoning 5
2 The Economic Organization of Society 31
3 Supply and Demand 59
4 Using Supply and Demand 84
5 U.S. Economic Institutions 105
6 An Introduction to the World Economy 129

PART 2 Macroeconomics 157
I Macroeconomic Problems, Concepts, and Institutions 157
7 Economic Growth, Business Cycles, and Inflation 157
8 National Income Accounting 183
9 Money, Banking, and the Financial Sector 207
II Macroeconomic Models: The Basics 245
10 The Modern Macroeconomic Debate 245
11 The Macro Debate in Reference to the Aggregate Production/Aggregate Expenditures Model 280
12 Demand Management, Fiscal Policy, and the Debate about Activist Demand Management Policy 306
III Traditional Macro Policy Debates 333
13 Monetary Policy and the Debate about Macro Policy 333
14 Inflation and Its Relationship to Une mployment and Growth 358
15 International Dimensions of Monetary and Fiscal Policies 380
16 Open Economy Macro: Exchange Rate and Trade Policy 394
17 The Art of Traditional Macro Policy 424
IV Structural Macro Policy Debates 446
18 Structural Supply-Side Macro Policies 446
19 Deficits and Debt 463
20 Growth and the Macroeconomics of Developing and Transitional Economies 484

PART 3 Microeconomics 509
I Microeconomic Concepts: The Basics 509
21 Describing Supply and Demand: Elasticities 509
22 The Logic of Individual Choice: The Foundation of Supply and Demand 536
23 Production and Cost Analysis I 557
24 Production and Cost Analysis II 572
II Competition, Monopoly, and Market Structure 592
25 Perfect Competition 592
26 Monopoly 616
27 Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly, and Strategic Pricing 636
28 Competition in the Real World 659
III Thinking Like an Economist: Microeconomic Policy Debates 679
29 Politics and Economics: The Case of Agricultural Markets 679
30 Microeconomic Policy and Economic Reasoning 697
31 The Role of Government in the Economy 708
32 Economics and the Environment 729
33 Antitrust and Industrial Policies 747
IV Distribution and Factor Markets 769
34 Who Gets What? The Distribution of Income 769
35 Work and the Labor Market 794
36 Nonwage and Asset Income: Rents, Profits, and Interest 820
V International Dimensions of Microeconomics 833
37 International Trade Restrictions 833
38 Growth and the Microeconomics of Developing Countries 856
39 Socialist Economies in Transition 872

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From Dissertation to Book (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, And Publishing Series)

Author: William P Germano

All new Phd's hope that their dissertations can become books. But a dissertation is written for a committee and a book for the larger world. William Germano's From Dissertation to Book is the essential guide for academic writers who want to revise a doctoral thesis for publication. The author of Getting It Published, Germano draws upon his extensive experience in academic publishing to provide writers with a state-of-the-art view of how to turn a dissertation into a manuscript that publishers will notice.

Acknowledging first that not all theses can become books, Germano shows how some dissertations might have a better life as one or more journal articles or as chapters in a newly conceived book. But even dissertations strong enough to be published as books first need to become book manuscripts, and at the heart of From Dissertation to Book is the idea that revising the dissertation is a fundamental process of adapting from one genre of writin g to another.

Germano offers clear guidance on how to do just this. Writers will find advice on such topics as rethinking the table of contents, taming runaway footnotes, shaping chapter length, and confronting the limitations of jargon, alongside helpful timetables for light or heavy revision. With crisp directives, engaging examples, and a sympathetic eye for the foibles of academic writing, From Dissertation to Book reveals to recent PhD's the process of careful and thoughtful revision—a truly invaluable skill as they grow into their new roles as professional writers.

Table of Contents:

1	Why this book	1
2	Getting started, again	12
3	Nagging doubts	31
4	The basic options	38
5	Reading with an editor's eyes	51
6	Planning and doing	66
7	Getting into shape	79
8	Making prose speak	101
9	What happens next	122