Table of Contents

Microeconomics, 4th Edition

• PART 1 INTRODUCTION
• Chapter 1 Economics: foundations and models
• Appendix Using graphs and formulas
• Chapter 2 Choices and trade-offs in the market
• PART 2 HOW THE MARKET WORKS
• Chapter 3 Where prices come from: the interaction of demand and supply
• Chapter 4 Elasticity: the responsiveness of demand and supply
• Chapter 5 Economic efficiency, government price setting and taxes
• Appendix Quantitative demand and supply analysis
• PART 3 CONSUMERS AND FIRMS
• Chapter 6 Consumer choice and behavioural economics
• Appendix Using indifference curves and budget lines to understand consumer behaviour
• Chapter 7 Technology, production and costs
• Appendix Using isoquants and isocosts to understand production and cost
• PART 4 MARKET STRUCTURE AND FIRM STRATEGY
• Chapter 8 Firms in perfectly competitive markets
• Chapter 9 Monopoly markets
• Appendix Price discrimination
• Chapter 10 Monopolistic competition: the competitive model in a more realistic setting
• Chapter 11 Oligopoly: markets with few competitors
• Appendix Traditional models of oligopoly
• PART 5 MARKETS FOR FACTORS OF PRODUCTION
• Chapter 12 The markets for labour and other factors of production
• PART 6 THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY
• Chapter 13 Comparative advantage and the gains from international trade
• PART 7 THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT
• Chapter 14 Government intervention in the market
• Chapter 15 Externalities, environmental policy and public goods
• Chapter 16 The distribution of income and social policy

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• PART 1 INTRODUCTION
• Chapter 1 Economics: foundations and models
• Appendix Using graphs and formulas
• Chapter 2 Choices and trade-offs in the market
• PART 2 HOW THE MARKET WORKS
• Chapter 3 Where prices come from: the interaction of demand and supply
• PART 3 MACROECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
• Chapter 4 GDP: measuring total production, income and economic growth
• Chapter 5 Economic growth, the financial system and business cycles
• Chapter 6 Long-run economic growth: sources and policies
• PART 4 UNEMPLOYMENT AND INFLATION
• Chapter 7 Unemployment
• Chapter 8 Inflation
• PART 5 SHORT-RUN FLUCTUATIONS
• Chapter 9 Aggregate expenditure and output in the short run
• Appendix The algebra of macroeconomic equilibrium
• Chapter 10 Aggregate demand and aggregate supply analysis
• Appendix Macroeconomic schools of thought
• PART 6 MONETARY AND FISCAL POLICY
• Chapter 11 Money, banks and the Reserve Bank of Australia
• Chapter 12 Monetary policy
• Chapter 13 Fiscal policy
• Appendix 1 Is there a short-run trade-off between unemployment and inflation?
• Appendix 2 A closer look at the multiplier
• PART 7 THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY
• Chapter 14 Macroeconomics in an open economy
• Chapter 15 The international financial system
• Appendix The gold standard and the Bretton Woods System

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