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PART 1: INTRODUCTION
- Economics: Foundations and Models
- Appendix: 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
- Appendix: Quantitative Demand and Supply Analysis
PART 2: MARKETS IN ACTION: POLICY AND APPLICATIONS
- Externalities, Environmental Policy, and Public Goods
- Elasticity: The Responsiveness of Demand and Supply
- The Economics of Health Care
PART 3: FIRMS IN THE DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIES
- Firms, the Stock Market, and Corporate Governance
- Appendix: Present Value
- Online Appendix: Tools to Analyze Firms’ Financial Information
- Comparative Advantage and the Gains from International Trade
PART 4: MICROECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS: CONSUMERS AND FIRMS
- Consumer Choice and Behavioral Economics
- Appendix: Using Indifference Curves and Budget Lines to Understand Consumer Behavior
- Technology, Production, and Costs
- Online Appendix: Using Isoquants and Isocost Lines to Understand Production and Cost
PART 5: 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
PART 6: LABOR MARKETS, PUBLIC CHOICE, AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME
- The Markets for Labor and Other Factors of Production
- Public Choice, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income
PART 7: MACROECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS AND LONG-RUN GROWTH
- GDP: Measuring Total Production and Income
- Unemployment and Inflation
- Economic Growth, the Financial System, and Business Cycles
- Long-Run Economic Growth: Sources and Policies
PART 8: SHORT-RUN FLUCTUATIONS
- Aggregate Expenditure and Output in the Short Run
- Appendix: The Algebra of Macroeconomic Equilibrium
- Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply Analysis
- Appendix: Macroeconomic Schools of Thought
PART 9: MONETARY AND FISCAL POLICY
- Money, Banks, and the Federal Reserve System
- Monetary Policy
- Fiscal Policy
- Appendix: A Closer Look at the Multiplier
- Inflation, Unemployment, and Federal Reserve Policy
PART 10: THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY
- Macroeconomics in an Open Economy