Table of Contents
PART 1: INTRODUCTION
1. Economics: Foundations and Models
Appendix: Using Graphs and Formulas
2. Trade-offs, Comparative Advantage, and the Market System
3. Where Prices Come From: The Interaction of Demand and Supply
4. Economic Efficiency, Government Price Setting, and Taxes
Appendix: Quantitative Demand and Supply Analysis
PART 2: MARKETS IN ACTION: POLICY AND APPLICATIONS
5. Externalities, Environmental Policy, and Public Goods
6. Elasticity: The Responsiveness of Demand and Supply
7. The Economics of Health Care
PART 3: FIRMS IN THE DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIES
8. Firms, the Stock Market, and Corporate Governance
Appendix: Present Value
Online Appendix: Tools to Analyze Firms’ Financial Information
9. Comparative Advantage and the Gains from International Trade
PART 4: MICROECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS: CONSUMERS AND FIRMS
10. Consumer Choice and Behavioral Economics
Appendix: Using Indifference Curves and Budget Lines to Understand Consumer Behavior
11. Technology, Production, and Costs
Online Appendix: Using Isoquants and Isocost Lines to Understand Production and Cost
PART 5: MARKET STRUCTURE AND FIRM STRATEGY
12. Firms in Perfectly Competitive Markets
13. Monopolistic Competition: The Competitive Model in a More Realistic Setting
14. Oligopoly: Firms in Less Competitive Markets
15. Monopoly and Antitrust Policy
PART 6: LABOR MARKETS, PUBLIC CHOICE, AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME
16. The Markets for Labor and Other Factors of Production
17. Public Choice, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income