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Principles of Microeconomics

 * Principles of Microeconomics
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Preface


 * Introduction
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Welcome to Economics!
 * Principles of Microeconomics/What Economics Is and Why It's Important
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Microeconomics and Macroeconomics
 * Principles of Microeconomics/How Economists Use Theories and Models to Understand Economic Issues
 * Principles of Microeconomics/How Economies Can Be Organized: An Overview of Economic Systems


 * Choice in a World of Scarcity
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Choice in a World of Scarcity
 * Principles of Microeconomics/How Individuals Make Choices Based on Their Budget Constraint
 * Principles of Microeconomics/The Production Possibilities Frontier and Social Choices
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Confronting Objections to the Economic Approach


 * Demand and Supply
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Demand and Supply
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium in Markets for Goods and Services
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Shifts in Demand and Supply for Goods and Services
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Changes in Equilibrium Price and Quantity: The Four-Step Process
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Price Ceilings and Price Floors
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Demand, Supply, and Efficiency


 * Labor and Financial Markets
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Labor and Financial Markets
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Demand and Supply at Work in Labor Markets
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Demand and Supply in Financial Markets
 * Principles of Microeconomics/The Market System as an Efficient Mechanism for Information


 * Elasticity
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Elasticity
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Price Elasticity of Demand and Price Elasticity of Supply
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Polar Cases of Elasticity and Constant Elasticity
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Elasticity and Pricing
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Elasticity in Areas Other Than Price


 * Consumer Choices
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Consumer Choices
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Consumption Choices
 * Principles of Microeconomics/How Changes in Income and Prices Affect Consumption Choices
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Labor-Leisure Choices
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Intertemporal Choices in Financial Capital Markets


 * Cost and Industry Structure
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Cost and Industry Structure
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Explicit and Implicit Costs, and Accounting and Economic Profit
 * Principles of Microeconomics/The Structure of Costs in the Short Run
 * Principles of Microeconomics/The Structure of Costs in the Long Run


 * Perfect Competition
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Perfect Competition
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Perfect Competition and Why It Matters
 * Principles of Microeconomics/How Perfectly Competitive Firms Make Output Decisions
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Entry and Exit Decisions in the Long Run
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Efficiency in Perfectly Competitive Markets


 * Monopoly
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Monopoly
 * Principles of Microeconomics/How Monopolies Form: Barriers to Entry
 * Principles of Microeconomics/How a Profit-Maximizing Monopoly Chooses Output and Price


 * Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Monopolistic Competition
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Oligopoly


 * Monopoly and Antitrust Policy
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Monopoly and Antitrust Policy
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Corporate Mergers
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Regulating Anticompetitive Behavior
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Regulating Natural Monopolies
 * Principles of Microeconomics/The Great Deregulation Experiment


 * Environmental Protection and Negative Externalities
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Environmental Protection and Negative Externalities
 * Principles of Microeconomics/The Economics of Pollution
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Command-and-Control Regulation
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Market-Oriented Environmental Tools
 * Principles of Microeconomics/The Benefits and Costs of U.S Environmental Laws
 * Principles of Microeconomics/International Environmental Issues
 * Principles of Microeconomics/The Tradeoff between Economic Output and Environmental Protection


 * Positive Externalities and Public Goods
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Positive Externalities and Public Goods
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Why the Private Sector Under Invests in Innovation
 * Principles of Microeconomics/How Governments Can Encourage Innovation
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Public Goods


 * Poverty and Economic Inequality
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Poverty and Economic Inequality
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Drawing the Poverty Line
 * Principles of Microeconomics/The Poverty Trap
 * Principles of Microeconomics/The Safety Net
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Income Inequality: Measurement and Causes
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Government Policies to Reduce Income Inequality


 * Issues in Labor Markets&#58; Unions, Discrimination, Immigration
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Issues in Labor Markets: Unions, Discrimination, Immigration
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Unions
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Employment Discrimination
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Immigration


 * Information, Risk, and Insurance
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Information, Risk, and Insurance
 * Principles of Microeconomics/The Problem of Imperfect Information and Asymmetric Information
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Insurance and Imperfect Information


 * Financial Markets
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Financial Markets
 * Principles of Microeconomics/How Businesses Raise Financial Capital
 * Principles of Microeconomics/How Households Supply Financial Capital
 * Principles of Microeconomics/How to Accumulate Personal Wealth


 * Public Economy
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Public Economy
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Voter Participation and Costs of Elections
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Special Interest Politics
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Flaws in the Democratic System of Government


 * International Trade
 * Principles of Microeconomics/International Trade
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Absolute and Comparative Advantage
 * Principles of Microeconomics/What Happens When a Country Has an Absolute Advantage in All Goods
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Intra-industry Trade between Similar Economies
 * Principles of Microeconomics/The Benefits of Reducing Barriers to International Trade


 * Globalization and Protectionism
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Globalization and Protectionism
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Protectionism: An Indirect Subsidy from Consumers to Producers
 * Principles of Microeconomics/International Trade and Its Effects on Jobs, Wages, and Working Conditions
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Arguments in Support of Restricting Imports
 * Principles of Microeconomics/How Trade Policy Is Enacted: Globally, Regionally, and Nationally
 * Principles of Microeconomics/The Tradeoffs of Trade Policy


 * Appendices
 * Principles of Microeconomics/The Use of Mathematics in Principles of Economics
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Indifference Curves
 * Principles of Microeconomics/Present Discounted Value