Microeconomics

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 Labor. 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.