PART 1: INTRODUCTION

• Getting Started
• The US and Global Economies
• The Economic Problem
• Demand and Supply

• PART 2: A CLOSER LOOK AT MARKETS

• Elasticities of Demand and Supply
• Efficiency of Fairness and Markets

• PART 3: HOW GOVERNMENTS INFLUENCE THE ECONOMY

• Government Actions in Markets
• Taxes
• Global Markets in Action

• PART 4: MARKET FAILURE AND PUBLIC POLICY

• Externalities
• Public Goods and Common Resources
• Private Information and Healthcare Markets

• PART 5: A CLOSER LOOK AT DECISION MAKERS

• Consumer Choice and Demand
• Production and Cost

• PART 6: PRICES, PROFITS, AND INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE

• Perfect Competition
• Monopoly
• Monopolistic Competition
• Oligopoly

• PART 7: INCOMES AND INEQUALITY

• Markets for Factors of Production
• Economic Inequality