Microeconomics (Book Only)

by Arnold, Roger A.

• ISBN13: 9780538452861
• ISBN10: 0538452862
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-15
• Publisher: South-Western College Pub

Summary

This engaging text continues to set the standard for clear, balanced, and thorough coverage of the principles of economics. Packed with intriguing pop culture examples, the Tenth Edition is revised to include the most comprehensive coverage of the financial and economic crisis available in a principles of economics text. With new content reflecting a changing economy and new resources addressing the needs of a changing classroom, MICROECONOMICS, 10e is an ideal solution for principles courses.

Table of Contents

Economics: the Science of Scarcity

What is Economics About

Working with Diagrams

Should You Major in Economics

Production Possibilities Frontier

Supply and Demand: Theory

Prices: Free, Controlled, and Relative

Supply, Demand, and Price: Applications

Microeconomic Fundamentals

Elasticity

Consumer Choice and Behavioral Economics

Budget Constraint and Indifference Curve Analysis

Product Markets and Policies

Perfect Competition

Monopoly

Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly, and Game Theory

Government and Product Markets: Antitrust and Regulation

Factor Markets and Related Issues

Factor Markets: With Emphasis on the Labor Market

Wages, Unions, and Labor

The Distribution of Income and Poverty

Interest, Rent, and Profit

Market Failure, Public Choice, and Special-Interest-Group Politics

Market Failure: Externalities, Public Goods, and Asymmetric Information

Public Choice and Special-Interest-Group Politics

Government and Markets

The Economic Case For and Against Government: Five Topics Considered

International Economics and Globalization

International Trade

International Finance

Financial Matters

Stocks, Bonds, Futures, and Options

Web Chapter

Agriculture: Problems, Policies, and Unintended Effects

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