Part 1: Introduction: Markets and Prices
1. Preliminaries
2. The Basics of Supply and Demand
Part 2: Producers, Consumers, and Competitive Markets
3. Consumer Behavior
4. Individual and Market Demand
5. Uncertainty and Consumer Behavior
6. Production
7. The Cost of Production
8. Profit Maximization and Competitive Supply
9. The Analysis of Competitive Markets
Part 3: Market Structure and Competitive Strategy
10. Market Power: Monopoly and Monopsony
11. Pricing with Market Power
12. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
13. Game Theory and Competitive Strategy
14. Markets for Factor Inputs
15. Investment, Time, and Capital Markets
Part 4: Information, Market Failure, and the Role of Government
16. General Equilibrium and Economic Efficiency
17. Markets with Asymmetric Information
18. Externalities and Public Goods
19. Behavioral Economics
Appendix: The Basics of Regression
Glossary
Answers to Selected Exercises
Photo credits
Index

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