This brand new edition of Maths for Economics: A Companion to Mankiw and Taylor Economics 4th edition assumes very little prior knowledge of mathematics and is essential reading for increasing your understanding. Applying the mathematics in context, this text will help to illuminate the economics you are studying. Following the structure of Mankiw and Taylors Economics 4th edition, this text can be used alongside Mankiw and Taylor but it may also be used independently as a useful guide for any economics course requiring maths knowledge.
Part 1 Introduction to Economics
1 What is economics?
2 Thinking like an economist
Part 2 Supply and demand: How markets work
3 The market forces of supply and demand
4 Elasticity and its applications
5 Background to demand: Consumer choices
6 Background to supply: Firms in competitive markets
Part 3 Markets, efficiency and welfare
7 Consumers, producers and the efficiency of markets
8 Supply, demand and government policies
Part 4 The economics of the public sector
9 The tax system
Part 5 Inefficient market allocations
10 Public goods, common resources and merit goods
11 Market failure and externalities
12 Information and behavioural economics
PAart 6 Firm behaviour and market structures
13 Firms production decisions
14 Market structures I: Monopoly
15 Market structures II: Monopolistic competition
16 Market structures III: Oligopoly
Part 7 Factor markets
17 The economics of factor markets
Part 8 Inequality
18 Income inequality and poverty
Part 9 Trade
19 Interdependence and the gains from trade
Macroeconomics prologue
Part 10 The data of macroeconomics
20 Measuring a nations well-being
21 Measuring the cost of living
Part 11 The real economy in the long run
22 Production and growth
23 Unemployment
Part 12 Interest rates, money and prices in the long run
24 Saving, investment and the financial system
25 The basic tools of finance
26 Issues in Financial Markets
27 The Monetary System
28 Money growth and inflation
PAart 13 The macroeconomics of open economies
29 Open-economy macroeconomics: Basic concepts
30 A macroeconomic theory of the open economy
PAart 14 Short-run economic fluctuations
31 Business cycles
32 Keynesian economics and IS-LM analysis
33 Aggregate demand and aggregate supply
34 The influence of monetary and fiscal policy on aggregate demand
35 The short-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment
36 Supply-side policies
Part 15 International macroeconomics
37 Common currency areas and European monetary union
38 The financial crisis and sovereign debt
