Macroeconomics or West Africas Security Challenges

Macroeconomics

Author: Stephen L Slavin

Steve Slavin's lively and comprehensive Macroeconomics student-friendly, step-by-step approach, coupled with its low price and built-in Workbook/Study Guide is very attractive to adopters. Instructors and students like the author's humorous anecdotes, direct language, and easy conversational style. The text encourages active rather than passive reading.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction: What Is Economics All About, How Do We Use This Book, and Why Is This Book Different from All Other Introductory Economics Textbooks?
1	A Brief Economic History of the United States	3
2	Resource Utilization	25
3	Supply and Demand	49
4	The Mixed Economy	59
5	The Consumption Sector	81
6	The Business-Investment Sector	103
7	The Government Sector	125
8	Gross Domestic Product	153
9	Economic Fluctuations, Unemployment, and Inflation	183
10	Classical and Keynesian Economics	213
11	Fiscal Policy and the National Debt	237
12	Money and Banking	279
13	The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy	313
14	Twentieth-Century Economic Theory	335
15	A Guide to Macropolicy	369
16	Economic Growth and Productivity	377
17	Income Distribution and Poverty	401
18	International Trade	433
19	International Finance	467
	Glossary	487
	Index	493

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West Africa's Security Challenges: Building Peace in a Troubled Region

Author: Adekeye Adebajo

"Among the world's most unstable regions, West Africa in the last decade has experienced a web of conflicts with profound and wide-ranging effects. West Africa's Security Challenges is the first comprehensive assessment of the resulting mix of setbacks and progress." The authors provide a context for understanding the region's security dilemmas, highlighting the link between failures of economic development, governance, and democratization on the one hand, and military insecurity and violent conflicts on the other. The role of key regional and external actors in foiling - and sometimes fueling - conflicts is also examined. The result is an analysis that is not only academically rigorous, but also relevant to current policy debates.