Microeconomics
Part I: INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS. 1. The Central Idea. 2. Observing and Explaining the Economy. 3. The Supply and Demand Model. 4. Subtleties of the Supply and Demand Model: Price Floors, Price Ceilings and Elasticity. Part II: PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS. 5. The Demand Curve and the Behavior of Consumers. 6. The Supply Curve and the Behavior of Firms. 7. The Efficiency of Markets. Part III: THE ECONOMICS OF THE FIRM 8. Costs and the Changes at Firms Over Time. 9. The Rise and Fall of Industries. 10. Monopoly. 11. Product Differentiation and Monopolistic Competition. 12. Antitrust Policy and Regulation. Part IV: MARKETS. 13. Labor Markets. 14. Taxes, Transfers and Income Distribution. 15. Public Goods, Externalities and Government Behavior. 16. Capital and Financial Markets. Appendix to Chapter 2: Reading, Understanding, and Creating Graphs. Appendix to Chapter 5: Consumer Theory with Indifference Curves. Appendix to Chapter 8: Producer Theory with Isoquants.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.