Microeconomics (with Video Office Hours Printed Access Card)

PART I: ECONOMICS: THE SCIENCE OF SCARCITY.
1. What is Economics About.
Appendix A: Working with Diagrams.
Appendix B: Should You Major in Economics?
2. Production Possibilities Frontier.
3. Supply and Demand: Theory.
4. Prices: Free, Controlled, and Relative.
5. Supply, Demand, and Price: Applications.
PART II: MICROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS.
6. Elasticity.
7. Consumer Choice and Behavioral Economics.
Appendix C: Budget Constraint and Indifference Curve Analysis.
PART III: PRODUCT MARKETS AND POLICIES.
8. Perfect Competition.
9. Monopoly.
10. Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly, and Game Theory.
11. Government and Product Markets: Antitrust and Regulation.
PART IV: FACTOR MARKETS AND RELATED ISSUES.
12. Factor Markets: With Emphasis on the Labor Market.
13. Wages, Unions, and Labor.
14. The Distribution of Income and Poverty.
15. Interest, Rent, and Profit.
PART V: MARKET FAILURE, PUBLIC CHOICE, AND SPECIAL-INTEREST-GROUP POLITICS.
16. Market Failure: Externalities, Public Goods, and Asymmetric Information.
17. Public Choice and Special-Interest-Group Politics.
PART VI: GOVERNMENT AND MARKETS.
18. The Economic Case For and Against Government: Five Topics Considered.
PART VII: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND GLOBALIZATION.
19. International Trade.
20. International Finance.
PART VIII: FINANCIAL MATTERS.
21. Stocks, Bonds, Futures, and Options.
PART IX: WEB CHAPTER.
23. Agriculture: Problems, Policies, and Unintended Effects.