布拉德利·希勒的《经济学基础》专为用一个学期讲授经济学原理的教师和学习这门课的学生而开发，同时也适合对经济学感兴趣的一般读者阅读。《经济学基础》在有限的篇幅内，涵盖了微观经济学、宏观经济学和国际经济学的核心内容与基本原理，是一本公认的将“清晰与简洁”“现实性与可读性”**结合的典范式教科书。近二十年来，在美国高校同类书中市场份额****。第11版在保持原有结构的基础上，在内容上进行了更新，所有统计数据都做了修正，并补充了新的习题和讨论问题。本书作为双语教材，保留了原版中90%以上的英文，对文中的**、难点和疑难生词进行了翻译和中文注释。

The twentieth century was very good to the United States of America. At the beginning of that century, life was hard and short. Life expectancywas only 47 years for whites and a shockingly low 33 years for blacks and other minorities. Those people who survived infancy faced substantial risk of early death from tuberculosis, influenza, pneumonia, or gastritis. Measles,syphilis, whooping cough, malaria, typhoid, and smallpox were all lifethreateningdiseases at the turn of the last century. Work was a lot harder back then, too. In 1900, one-third of all U.S. familieslived on farms, where the workday began before sunrise and lasted all day. Those who lived in the cities typically worked 60 hours a week for wages of only 22 cents an hour. Hours were long, jobs were physically demanding, and workplaces were often dirty and unsafe.People didn’t have much to show for all that work. By today’s standards nearly everyone was poor back then. The average income per person was less than $4,000 per year (in today’s dollars). Very few people had telephones and even fewer had cars. There were no television sets, no home freezers, no microwaves,no dishwashers or central air-conditioning, and no computers. Eve indoor plumbing was a luxury. Only a small elite went to college; an eighthgrade education was the norm. ……

**编 基础 BASICS 第1章 经济学面临的挑战 The Challenge of Economics 第2章 供给与需求 Supply and Demand 第二编 微观经济学 MICROECONOMICS 第3章 消费者需求 Consumer Demand 第4章 供给决策 Supply Decisions 第5章 竞争 Competition 第6章 垄断 Monopoly 第7章 劳动力市场 The Labor Market 第8章 政府干预 Government Intervention 第三编 宏观经济 MACROECONOMICS 第9章 商业周期 The Business Cycle 第10章 总供给和总需求 Aggregate Supply and Demand 第11章 财政政策 Fiscal Policy 第12章 货币与银行 Money and Banks 第13章 货币政策 Monetary Policy 第14章 经济增长 Economic Growth 第四编 国际经济学 INTERNATIONAL 第15章 国际贸易 International Trade 第五编 总结 CAPSTONE 第16章 理论与现实 Theory and Reality