Economics Today The Micro View

by Miller, Roger LeRoy

• ISBN13: 9780134479804
• ISBN10: 0134479807
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780133916669
• Edition: 19th
• Format: Loose-leaf
• Copyright: 2017-01-06
• Publisher: Pearson
• More Book Details

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Table of Contents

PART 1: Introduction

1. The Nature of Economics

2. Scarcity and the World of Trade-Offs

3. Demand and Supply  

4. Extensions of Demand and Supply Analysis

5. Public Spending and Public Choice  

6. Funding the Public Sector  

 

PART 5: Dimensions of Microeconomics  

19. Demand and Supply Elasticity

20. Consumer Choice

21. Rents, Profits, and the Financial Environment of Business

 

PART 6: Market Structure, Resource Allocation, and Regulation

22. The Firm: Cost and Output Determination

23. Perfect Competition

24. Monopoly

25. Monopolistic Competition

26. Oligopoly and Strategic Behavior

27. Regulation and Antitrust Policy in a Globalized Economy

 

PART 7: Labor Resources and the Environment

28. The Labor Market: Demand, Supply, and Outsourcing

29. Unions and Labor Market Monopoly Power

30. Income, Poverty, and Health Care

31. Environmental Economics

 

PART 8: Global Economics

32. Comparative Advantage and the Open Economy

33. Exchange Rates and the Balance of Payments