Table of Contents:
  • 1. Thinking like an economist
  • 2. Supply and demand
  • 3. Rational consumer choice
  • 4. Individual and market demand
  • 5. Applications of rational choice and demand theories
  • 6. The economics of information and choice under uncertainty
  • 7. Explaining tastes: the importance of altruism and other nonegoistic behavior
  • 8. Cognitive limitations and consumer behavior
  • 9. Production
  • 10. Costs
  • 11. Perfect competition
  • 12. Monopoly
  • 13. Imperfect competiton : a game-theoretic approach
  • 14. Labor
  • 15. Capital
  • 16. General equilibrium and market efficiency
  • 17. Externalities, property rights, and the Coase theorem
  • 18. Government