An Introduction to Economics
Part I: ECONOMICS: THE SCIENCE OF SCARCITY
1. What Economics Is About
Appendix A: Working with Diagrams
Appendix B: Should You Major in Economics?
2. Production Possibilities Frontier Framework
3. Supply and Demand: Theory
4. Prices: Free, Controlled, and Relative
5. Supply, Demand, and Price: Applications
Microeconomics
Part II: MICROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS
6. Elasticity
7. Consumer Choice: Maximizing Utility and Behavioral Economics
Appendix C: Budget Constraint and Indifference Curve Analysis
8. Production and Costs
Part III: PRODUCT MARKETS AND POLICIES
9. Perfect Competition
10. Monopoly
11. Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly, and Game Theory
12. Government and Product Markets: Antitrust and Regulation
Part IV: FACTOR MARKETS AND RELATED ISSUES
13. Factor Markets: With Emphasis on the Labor Market
14. Wages, Unions, and Labo
15. The Distribution of Income and Poverty
16. Interest, Rent, and Profit
Part V: HEALTH ECONOMICS
17. Health Economics: Experiments, Disparities, and Prices
Part VI: MARKET FAILURE, PUBLIC CHOICE, AND SPECIAL-INTEREST-GROUP POLITICS
18. Market Failure: Externalities, Public Goods, and Asymmetric Information
19. Public Choice and Special-Interest-Group Politics
20. Creative Destruction and Crony Capitalism: Two Forces on the Economic Landscape Today
Part VII: ECONOMIC THEORIES AND RESEARCH
21. New Frontiers in Economic Research: Causal Inference and Machine Learning
Part VIII: INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FINANCE
22. International Trade
23. International Finance