PART I: INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS 1. The Principles and Practice of Economics 2. Economic Methods and Economic Questions 3. Optimization: Doing the Best You Can 4. Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium PART II: FOUNDATIONS OF MICROECONOMICS 5. Consumers and Incentives 6. Sellers and Incentives 7. Perfect Competition and the Invisible Hand 8. Trade 9. Externalities and Public Goods 10. The Government in the Economy: Taxation and Regulation 11. Markets for Factors of Production PART III: MARKET STRUCTURE 12. Monopoly 13. Game Theory and Strategic Play 14. Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition PART IV: EXTENDING THE MICROECONOMIC TOOLBOX 15. Trade-offs Involving Time and Risk 16. The Economics of Information 17. Auctions and Bargaining 18. Social Economics PART V: INTRODUCTION TO MACROECONOMICS 19. The Wealth of Nations: Defining and Measuring Macroeconomic Aggregates 20. Aggregate Incomes PART VI: LONG-RUN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT 21. Economic Growth 22. Why Isn¡¯t the Whole World Developed? PART VII: EQUILIBRIUM IN THE MACROECONOMY 23. Employment and Unemployment 24. Credit Markets 25. The Monetary System PART VIII: SHORT-RUN FLUCTUATIONS AND MACROECONOMIC POLICY 26. Short-Run Fluctuations 27. Countercyclical Macroeconomic Policy PART IX: MACROECONOMICS IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY 28. Macroeconomics and International Trade 29. Open Economy Macroeconomics |