Preface | |
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | |
Economics: Foundations and Models | |
Using Graphs and Formulas | |
Trade-offs, Comparative Advantage, and the Market System | |
Where Prices Come From: The Interaction of Demand and Supply | |
Economic Efficiency, Government Price Setting, and Taxes | |
Markets in Action | |
Externalities, Environmental Policy, and Public Goods | |
Elasticity: The Responsiveness of Demand and Supply | |
Firms in the Domestic and International Economies | |
Firms, the Stock Market, and Corporate Governance | |
Tools to Analyze Firms' Financial Information | |
Comparative Advantage and the Gains from International Trade | |
Multinational Firms | |
Microeconomic Foundations: Consumers and Firms | |
Consumer Choice and Behavioral Economics | |
Using Indifference Curves and Budget Lines to Understand Consumer Behavior | |
Technology, Production, and Costs | |
Using Isoquants and Isocosts to Understand Production and Cost | |
Market Structure and Firm Strategy | |
Firms in Perfectly Competitive Markets | |
Monopolistic Competition: The Competitive Model in a More Realistic Setting | |
Oligopoly: Firms in Less Competitive Markets | |
Monopoly and Antitrust Policy | |
Pricing Strategy | |
Markets for Factors of Production | |
The Markets for Labor and Other Factors of Production | |
Information, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income | |
The Economics of Information | |
Public Choice, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income | |
Glossary | |
Company Index | |
Subject Index | |
Credits | |
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