Thinking Like an Economist
PART 1 The Power of Economics
1 Economics and Life
2 Specialization and Exchange
PART 2 Supply and Demand
3 Markets
4 Elasticity
5 Efficiency
6 Government Intervention
Microeconomics: Thinking Like a Microeconomist
PART 3 Individual Decisions
7 Consumer Behavior
8 Behavioral Economics: A Closer Look at Decision Making
9 Game theory and Strategic Thinking
10 Information
11 Time and Uncertainty
PART 4 Firm Decisions
12 The Costs of Production
13 Perfect Competition
14 Monopoly
15 Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
16 The Factors of Production
17 International Trade
PART 5 Public Economics
18 Externalities
19 Public Goods and Common Resources
20 Taxation and the Public Budget
21 Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination
22 Political Choices
23 Public Policy and Choice Architecture