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 Chapter Titles

Topics

Great Ideas

Part 1

Global Change and Microeconomic Realities

 

1

An Overview of Microeconomics

 

2

Prices and Markets

 

Part II

Modeling Consumer Behavior

 

3

The Optimizing Individual

Indifference Curves

An Origami 3-D Preference Function

4

The Anatomy of Consumer Preferences

 

5

Consumer Choice:  Information and Uncertainty

 

Part III

Foundations of Supply

 

6

The Nature of the Firm

 

7

Production

 

8

The Costs of Production

 

Part IV

Market Structures and Strategies

 

9

Perfect Competition vs. Rivalry

 

10

Monopoly and Market Power

 

11

Monopolistic Competition and Product Differentiation

 

12

Oligopoly: Interdependent Decisionmaking

 

Part V

Resource Markets

 

13

Competitive Resource Markets

 

14

Imperfect Competition in Resource Markets

 

15

Rent, Interest, Profit, and Capitalization

 

Part VI

General Equilibrium and Welfare

 

16

General Equilibrium Analysis

 

17

The Simple Analytics of Welfare Maximization

 

18

Market Failure

 

19

Public Finance and Public Choice

 

 

Glossary