The Eighth Edition (2005)


Economic Issues Today: Alternative Approaches


Eighth Edition

By: Robert B. Carson, Wade L. Thomas, and Jason Hecht

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Highly accessible and relevant in today's economic environment, Economic Issues Today provides a unique approach to understanding what the practice of economics is all about. Fifteen issues are covered, providing for each an analysis from three different economic perspectives: Conservative, Liberal, and Radical. Authors Carson,Thomas,and Hecht have again combined their efforts to produce a thoroughly revised and updated book. Economic Issues Today is also available in separate volumes: Microeconomic Issues Today and Macroeconomic Issues Today.

The eighth edition features:
  • New directions in agricultural policy since 2002
  • Perspectives on consumer welfare
  • Acid rain, pollution control policies, and the immediacy of environmental issues on an international scale
  • Broadened examination of industry regulation, corporate scandals, and regulation of the accounting profession
  • Updated data on income distribution, poverty, the net worth of America's richest, and use of the Gini index to track inequality
  • New issue on the growing crisis with social security
  • Recent federal tax cuts
  • Renewed focus on productivity growth and the prospects for economic growth
  • Outsourcing of American jobs
  • The resumption of budget deficits
  • Interest rate targeting and the Federal Reserve's monetary policy
  • And much more

Like all its predecessors, Economic Issues Today, Eighth Edition is written specifically for the undergraduate audience; it requires no background in economic analysis and avoids economic jargon in favor of plain everyday language.

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Publication Date: March 2005   M.E. Sharpe, Inc.

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