Economics / David C. Colander

Content includes

PART I INRODUCTION : THINKING LIC AN ECOMIST
1. Economics and economic reasoning
2. The production possibility model, trade and globalization
3. Economic institutions
4. Supply and demand
5. Using supply and demand

PART II MICROECONOMICS
I MICROECONOMICS : THE ABSICS
6. Describing supply and demand: elasticities
7. Taxation and government intervention

II FOUNDATIONS OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND
8. The logic of individual choice: the foundation of supply and demand
9. Production and cost analysis I
10. Production and cost analysis II

III MARKET STRUCTURE
11. Perfect competition
12. Monopoly
13. Monopolistic competition and oligopoly

IV REAL-WORLD COMPETITION
14. Game theory, strategic decision making and behavioral economics
15. Real-world competition and technology
16. Antitrust policy and regulation

V FACTOR MARKETS
17. Work and the labor marker
17W. Nonwage and asset income: rents, profits, and interest
18 Who gets what? The distribution of income


VI APPLYING ECONOMIC REASONING TO POLICY
19 Market failure versus government failure
20 Politics and economics: the case of agricultural markets
21 Microeconomic policy, economic reasoning, and beyond
22 International trade policy, comparative advantage and outsourcing

PART III MACROECONOMICS
I MACROECONOMIC PROBLEMS
22 Economic growth, business cycles unemployment and inflation
23 Measuring the aggregate economy
24 Growth, productivity and the wealth of nations
25 The aggregate demand/aggregate supply model
26 The multiplier model

III MONEY, INFLATION, AND MONETARY POLICY
27 The financial sector and the demand for money
28 Monetary policy
29 Inflation and the Phillips curve

IV TAXES, BUDGETs, AND FISCAL POLICY
30 Fiscal policy and public finance
31 Politics, deficits and debt

V INTERNATIONAL POLICY ISSUES
32 International financial policy
33 Macro policy in a global setting
34 Macro policies in developing countries

Includes index