Your Film Acting Career or Economics

Your Film Acting Career: How to Break into the Movies and TV and Survive in Hollywood

Author: M K Lewis

Newly revised and updated, Your Film Acting Career provides answers to hundreds of questions asked about the Hollywood scene: Finding work in TV, movies, commercials, industrials, new media, modeling, student films, theatre... Living in Los Angeles... Putting together effective resumes and photographs... Getting into the unions... Finding an agent... What producers, directors and casting directors want in interviews, cold readings, on the set... Choosing acting classes... Residuals, overtime, contracts... Restarting a stalled career... And much, much more.

New interesting textbook: How Baking Works or What Einstein Told His Cook

Economics

Author: Paul Krugman

Krugman/Wells takes a story-driven approach that focuses on real-world economics at work. The book offers the hallmark clarity and engaging writing style that distinguish Paul Krugman’s work, from his best-selling international economics text to his New York Times best-sellers.
 

Table of Contents:

Preface
PART 1 WHAT IS ECONOMICS?
    Introduction The Ordinary Business of Life
    1 First Principles
    2. Economic Models: Trade-offs and Trade
    Appendix Graphs in Economics

 
PART 2 SUPPLY AND DEMAND
     3. Supply and Demand
     4. The Market Strikes Back
     5. Elasticity

PART 3 INDIVIDUALS AND MARKETS
     6. Consumer and Producer Surplus
     7. Making Decisions

PART 4 THE PRODUCER
     8. Behind the Supply Curve: Inputs and Costs
     9. Perfect Competition and the Supply Curve

PART 5 THE CONSUMER
    10. The Rational Consumer
    11. Consumer Preferences and Consumer Choice

PART 6 MARKETS AND EFFICIENCY
    12. Factor Markets and the Distribution of Income
    Appendix: Indifference Curve Analysis of Labor Supply
    13. Efficiency and Equity

PART 7 MARKET STRUCTURE: BEYOND PERFECT COMPETITION
     14. Monopoly
    15. Oligopoly
    16. Monopolistic Competition and Product Differentiation

PART 8 EXTENDING MARKET BOUNDARIES
    17. International Trade
    18. Uncertainty, Risk, and Private Information

PART 9 MICROECONOMICS AND PUBLIC POLICY
    19. Externalities
    20. Public Goods and Common Resources
    21. Taxes, Social Insurance, and Income Distribution

PART 10 NEW DIRECTIONS FOR MARKETS
    22. Technology, Information Goods, and Network Externalities

PART 11 INTRODUCTION TO MACROECONOMICS
    23. Macroeconomics: The Big Picture
    24. Tracking the Macroeconomy

PART 12 THE ECONOMY IN THE LONG RUN
    25. Long-Run Economic Growth
    26. Savings, Investment Spending, and the Financial System

PART 13 SHORT-RUN ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS
    27. Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand
    28. Income and Expenditure
    Appendix Deriving the Multiplier Algebraically
    29 Fiscal Policy
    Appendix Taxes and the Multiplier
    30. Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve System
    31. Monetary Policy

PART 14 THE SUPPLY SIDE AND THE MEDIUM RUN
    32. Labor Markets, Unemployment, and Inflation
    33. Inflation, Disinflation, and Deflation

PART 15 EVENTS AND IDEAS
    34. The Making of Modern Macroeconomics

PART 16 THE OPEN ECONOMY
    35. Open-Economy Macroeconomics
    Supplemental : Currencies and Crises
    Available on the Web, at worthpublishers.com/krugmanwells, and in booklet form.