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PART I: INTRODUCTION.
1. The Role and Method of Economics.
Appendix: Working with Graphs.
2. Eight Powerful Ideas.
3. Scarcity, Trade-Offs, and Production Possibilities.
PART II: SUPPLY AND DEMAND.
4. Demand, Supply, and Market Equilibrium.
5. Market in Motion and Price Controls.
6. Elasticities.
PART III: MARKET EFFICIENCY, MARKET FAILURE, AND THE PUBLIC SYSTEM.
7. Market Efficiency and Welfare.
8. Market Failure.
9. Public Finance and Public Choice.
PART IV: HOUSEHOLDS AND MARKET STRUCTURE.
10. Consumer Choice Theory.
Appendix: A More Advanced Theory of Consumer Choice.
11. The Firm: Production and Costs.
Appendix: Using Isoquants and Isocosts.
12. Firms in Perfectly Competitive Markets.
13. Monopoly and Antitrust.
14. Monopolistic Competition and Product Differentiation.
15. Oligopoly and Strategic Behavior.
PART V: INPUT MARKETS AND MICROECONOMIC POLICY ISSUES.
16. The Markets for Labor, Capital, and Land.
17. Income, Poverty and Health Care.
PART VI: THE GLOBAL ECONOMY.
18. International Trade.
19. International Finance.

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