Part 1: Introduction
1. Economics: Foundations and Models
Appendix: Using Graphs and Formulas
2: Trade-offs, Comparative Advantage, and the Market System
3. Where Prices Come From: The Interaction of Demand and Supply
4. Economic Efficiency, Government Price Setting, and Taxes
Appendix: Quantitative Demand and Supply Analysis
Part 2: Markets in Action: Policy and Applications
5. Externalities, Environmental Policy, and Public Goods
6. Elasticity: The Responsiveness of Demand and Supply
7. The Economics of Health Care
Part 3: Firms in the Domestic and International Economies
8. Firms, the Stock Market, and Corporate Governance
Appendix: Tools to Analyze Firms’ Financial Information
9. Comparative Advantage and the Gains from International Trade
Part 4: Microeconomic Foundations: Consumers and Firms
10. Consumer Choice and Behavioral Economics
Appendix: Using Indifference Curves and Budget Lines to Understand Consumer Behavior
11: Technology, Production, and Costs
Appendix: Using Isoquants and Isocost Lines to Understand Production and Cost
Part 5: Market Structure and Firm Strategy
12. Firms in Perfectly Competitive Markets
13. Monopolistic Competition: The Competitive Model in a More Realistic Setting
14. Oligopoly: Firms in Less Competitive Markets
15. Monopoly and Antitrust Policy
16. Pricing Strategy
Part 6: Labor Markets, Public Choice, and the Distribution of Income
17. The Markets for Labor and Other Factors of Production
18. Public Choice, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income
Part 7: Macroeconomic Foundations and Long-Run Growth
19. GDP: Measuring Total Production and Income
20. Unemployment and Inflation
21. Economic Growth, the Financial System, and Business Cycles
22. Long-Run Economic Growth: Sources and Policies
Part 8: Short-Run Fluctuations
23. Aggregate Expenditure and Output in the Short Run
Appendix: The Algebra of Macroeconomic Equilibrium
24. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply Analysis
Appendix: Macroeconomic Schools of Thought
Part 9: Monetary and Fiscal Policy
25: Money, Banks, and the Federal Reserve System
26: Monetary Policy
27: Fiscal Policy
Appendix: A Closer Look at the Multiplier
28: Inflation, Unemployment, and Federal Reserve Policy
Part 10: The International Economy
29: Macroeconomics in an Open Economy
30: The International Financial System
Appendix: The Gold Standard and the Bretton Woods System
