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    All This Life: A Novel

    All This Life: A Novel

    by Joshua Mohr


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      ISBN-13: 9781619026292
    • Publisher: Catapult
    • Publication date: 07/01/2015
    • Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 304
    • File size: 432 KB

    Joshua Mohr is the author of the novels Termite Parade (a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice selection), Some Things that Meant the World to Me (one of O Magazine's Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller), Damascus, and Fight Song, all published to much critical acclaim. Mohr teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco.

    Table of Contents

    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

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    Morning rush hour on the Golden Gate Bridge. Amidst the river of metal and glass a shocking event occurs, leaving those who witnessed it desperately looking for answers, most notably one man and his son Jake, who captured the event and uploaded it to the internet for all the world to experience. As the media swarms over the story, Jake will face the ramifications of his actions as he learns the perils of our modern disconnect between the real world and the world we create online.

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