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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1319098789
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1319098780
Author: Paul Krugman (Author), Robin Wells (Author)

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Table of Content:

Section 1 Basic Economic Concepts
A Day in the Megacity
Module 1 First Principles
1.1 The Invisible Hand
My Benefit, Your Cost
Good Times, Bad Times
Onward and Upward
1.2 Principles That Underlie Individual Choice: The Core of Economics
Principle #1: Choices Are Necessary Because Resources Are Scarce
Principle #2: The True Cost of Something Is Its Opportunity Cost
Principle #3: “How Much” Is a Decision at the Margin
Principle #4: People Usually Respond to Incentives, Exploiting Opportunities to Make Themselves Better Off
1.3 Interaction: How Economies Work
Principle #5: There Are Gains from Trade
Principle #6: Markets Move Toward Equilibrium
Principle #7: Resources Should Be Used Efficiently to Achieve Society’s Goals
Principle #8: Markets Usually Lead to Efficiency, But When They Don’t, Government Intervention Can Improve Society’s Welfare
1.4 Economy-Wide Interactions
Principle #9: One Person’s Spending Is Another Person’s Income
Principle #10: Overall Spending Sometimes Gets Out of Line with the Economy’s Productive Capacity
Principle #11: Increases in the Economy’s Potential Lead to Economic Growth Over Time
Module 2 Models and the Production Possibility Frontier
2.1 Models Take Flight in Economics
2.2 Trade-Offs: The Production Possibility Frontier
Efficiency
Opportunity Cost
Economic Growth
Economics in Action: Lights, Camera—But Where’s the Action Figure?
Module 3 Comparative Advantage and Trade
3.1 Comparative Advantage and Gains from Trade
Comparative Advantage and International Trade, in Reality
Economics in Action: Rich Nation, Poor Nation
Module 4 The Circular-Flow Diagram
4.1 The Circular-Flow Diagram
4.2 Positive versus Normative Economics
Business Case: Efficiency, Opportunity Cost, and the Logic of Lean Production
Section 1 Review
Section 1 Summary
Section 1 Key Terms
Appendix 1 Graphs in Economics
Getting the Picture
Graphs, Variables, and Economic Models
How Graphs Work
Two-Variable Graphs
Curves on a Graph
A Key Concept: The Slope of a Curve
The Slope of a Linear Curve
Horizontal and Vertical Curves and Their Slopes
The Slope of a Nonlinear Curve
Calculating the Slope Along a Nonlinear Curve
Maximum and Minimum Points
Calculating the Area Below or Above a Curve
Graphs That Depict Numerical Information
Types of Numerical Graphs
Section 2 Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium
A Natural Gas Boom
Module 5 Demand
5.1 Supply and Demand: A Model of a Competitive Market
5.2 The Demand Curve
The Demand Schedule and the Demand Curve
Shifts of the Demand Curve
Understanding Shifts of the Demand Curve
Economics in Action: Beating the Traffic
Module 6 Supply and Equilibrium
6.1 The Supply Curve
The Supply Schedule and the Supply Curve
Shifts of the Supply Curve
Understanding Shifts of the Supply Curve
6.2 Supply, Demand, and Equilibrium
Finding the Equilibrium Price and Quantity
1. Why Do All Sales and Purchases in a Market Take Place at the Same Price?
2. Why Does the Market Price Fall If It Is Above the Equilibrium Price?
3. Why Does the Market Price Rise If It Is Below the Equilibrium Price?
Using Equilibrium to Describe Markets
Economics in Action: The Price of Admission
Module 7 Changes in Equilibrium
7.1 Changes in Supply and Demand
What Happens When the Demand Curve Shifts
What Happens When the Supply Curve Shifts
Simultaneous Shifts of Supply and Demand Curves
7.2 Competitive Markets—And Others
Economics in Action: Where’s the Guacamole?
Business Case: Uber Gives Riders a Lesson in Supply and Demand
Section 2 Review
Section 2 Summary
Section 2 Key Terms
Section 3 Market Efficiency and Price Controls
Making Gains by the Book
Module 8 Consumer and Producer Surplus
8.1 Consumer Surplus and the Demand Curve
Willingness to Pay and the Demand Curve
Willingness to Pay and Consumer Surplus
How Changing Prices Affect Consumer Surplus
8.2 Producer Surplus and the Supply Curve
Cost and Producer Surplus
How Changing Prices Affect Producer Surplus
Economics in Action: A Matter of Life and Death
Module 9 Efficiency and Markets
9.1 Consumer Surplus, Producer Surplus, and the Gains from Trade
The Gains from Trade
The Efficiency of Markets
Equity and Efficiency
9.2 A Market Economy
Why Markets Typically Work So Well
A Few Words of Caution
Economics in Action: A Great Leap—Backward
Module 10 Price Controls (Ceilings and Floors)
10.1 Why Governments Control Prices
10.2 Price Ceilings
Modeling a Price Ceiling
How a Price Ceiling Causes Inefficiency
So Why Are There Price Ceilings?
10.3 Price Floors
How a Price Floor Causes Inefficiency
So Why Are There Price Floors?
Economics in Action: The Rise and Fall of the Unpaid Intern
Business Case: Ticket Prices and Music’s Reigning Couple, Jay-Z and Beyoncé
Section 3 Review
Section 3 Summary
Section 3 Key Terms
Section 4 Elasticity and Law of Demand
Taken for a Ride
Module 11 Defining and Measuring Elasticity
11.1 Calculating the Price Elasticity of Demand
An Alternative Way to Calculate Elasticities: The Midpoint Method
Economics in Action: Estimating Elasticities
Module 12 Interpreting the Price Elasticity of Demand
12.1 How Elastic Is Elastic?
12.2 Price Elasticity Along the Demand Curve
12.3 What Factors Determine the Price Elasticity of Demand?
Whether the Good Is a Necessity or a Luxury
The Availability of Close Substitutes
Share of Income Spent on the Good
Time Elapsed Since Price Change
Economics in Action: Responding to Your Tuition Bill
Module 13 Other Elasticities
13.1 The Cross-Price Elasticity of Demand
13.2 The Income Elasticity of Demand
13.3 The Price Elasticity of Supply
Measuring the Price Elasticity of Supply
What Factors Determine the Price Elasticity of Supply?
An Elasticity Menagerie
Economics in Action: China and the Global Commodities Glut of 2016
Module 14 The Benefits and Costs of Taxation
14.1 The Economics of Taxes: A Preliminary View
The Effect of an Excise Tax on Quantities and Prices
Price Elasticities and Tax Incidence
14.2 The Benefits and Costs of Taxation
The Revenue from an Excise Tax
Tax Rates and Revenue
14.3 The Costs of Taxation
14.4 Elasticities and the Deadweight Loss of a Tax
Economics in Action: Taxing Tobacco
Business Case: The Airline Industry: Fly Less, Charge More
Section 4 Review
Section 4 Summary
Section 4 Key Terms
Section 5 International Trade
The Everywhere Phone
Module 15 Gains from Trade
15.1 Comparative Advantage and International Trade
Production Possibilities and Comparative Advantage, Revisited
The Gains from International Trade
Comparative Advantage versus Absolute Advantage
Popular Misconceptions Arising from Misunderstanding Comparative Advantage
Sources of Comparative Advantage
Economics in Action: How Hong Kong Lost Its Shirts
Module 16 Supply, Demand, and International Trade
16.1 Imports, Exports, and Wages
The Effects of Imports
The Effects of Exports
International Trade and Wages
16.2 The Effects of Trade Protection
The Effects of a Tariff
The Effects of an Import Quota
16.3 The Political Economy of Trade Protection
Arguments for Trade Protection
The Politics of Trade Protection
International Trade Agreements and the World Trade Organization
16.4 Challenges to Globalization
Greater Inequality Arising from Trade
Outsourcing
Economics in Action: Trade War, What Is It Good For?
Business Case: Li & Fung: From Guangzhou to You
Section 5 Review
Section 5 Summary
Section 5 Key Terms
Section 6 Economics and Decision Making
The Payback Game Shows Students How to Make Good Decisions
Module 17 Making Decisions
17.1 Costs, Benefits, and Profits
Explicit versus Implicit Costs
Accounting Profit versus Economic Profit
Making “Either–Or” Decisions
17.2 Making “How Much” Decisions: The Role of Marginal Analysis
Marginal Cost
Marginal Benefit
Marginal Analysis
17.3 Sunk Costs
Economics in Action: The Cost of a Life
Module 18 Behavioral Economics
18.1 How People Make Economic Choices
Rational, but Human, Too
Irrationality: An Economist’s View
Rational Models for Irrational People?
Economics in Action: In Praise of Hard Deadlines
Module 19 Maximizing Utility
19.1 Utility: Getting Satisfaction
Utility and Consumption
The Principle of Diminishing Marginal Utility
19.2 Budgets and Optimal Consumption
Budget Constraints and Budget Lines
Optimal Consumption Choice
19.3 Spending the Marginal Dollar
Marginal Utility per Dollar
Optimal Consumption
19.4 From Utility to the Demand Curve
Marginal Utility, the Substitution Effect, and the Law of Demand
The Income Effect
Economics in Action: Lower Gasoline Prices and the Urge to Splurge
Business Case: Beyond Impossible: McDonald’s and Burger King’s Beef-Free Battle
Section 6 Review
Section 6 Summary
Section 6 Key Terms
Section 7 Production and Costs
The Farmer’s Margin
Module 20 The Production Function
20.1 The Production Function
Inputs and Output
Economics in Action: Finding the Optimal Team Size
Module 21 Firm Costs
21.1 From the Production Function to Cost Curves
21.2 Two Key Concepts: Marginal Cost and Average Cost
Marginal Cost
Average Total Cost
Minimum Average Total Cost
Does the Marginal Cost Curve Always Slope Upward?
Economics in Action: Smart Grid Economics
Module 22 Long-Run Costs and Economies of Scale
22.1 Short-Run versus Long-Run Costs
Returns to Scale
Summing Up Costs: The Short and Long of It
Economics in Action: How the Sharing Economy Reduces Fixed Cost
Business Case: The Rise of the Machine at Amazon
Section 7 Review
Section 7 Summary
Section 7 Key Terms
Section 8 Market Structure and Perfect Competition
Deck the Halls
Module 23 Introduction to Market Structure
23.1 Types of Market Structure
23.2 Perfect Competition
Defining Perfect Competition
Conditions That Lead to Perfect Competition
23.3 Monopoly
Defining Monopoly
Why Do Monopolies Exist?
23.4 Oligopoly
Defining Oligopoly
Oligopoly and the Potential for Collusion
Is It an Oligopoly or Not?
23.5 Monopolistic Competition
Defining Monopolistic Competition
Economics in Action: The Monopoly That Wasn’t: China and the Market for Rare Earths
Module 24 Perfect Competition
24.1 Production and Profits
The Optimal Output Rule
The Optimal Output Rule for a Price-Taking Firm
Produce or Shut Down?
Module 25 Graphing Perfect Competition
25.1 Graphing Perfect Competition
The Short-Run Production Decision
The Long Run: Changing Fixed Cost, Entry and Exit
Summing Up: The Perfectly Competitive Firm’s Profitability and Production Conditions
Economics in Action: Farmers Know How
Module 26 Long-Run Outcomes in Perfect Competition
26.1 The Perfectly Competitive Industry Supply Curve
The Short-Run Industry Supply Curve
The Long-Run Market Equilibrium
The Cost of Production and Efficiency in Long-Run Equilibrium
Economics in Action: A Global Pork Shortage Hits Chinese Diners Hard
Business Case: Retail Wars: Big Box Stores in the Age of Amazon
Section 8 Review
Section 8 Summary
Section 8 Key Terms
Section 9 Monopoly
“Shine Bright Like a Diamond”
Module 27 Monopoly in Practice
27.1 The Monopolist’s Demand Curve and Marginal Revenue
Comparing Demand Curves
Comparing Marginal Revenue and Price
Why Marginal Revenue Differs from Price for a Monopolist
27.2 The Monopolist’s Profit-Maximizing Output and Price
27.3 Monopoly versus Perfect Competition
27.4 Monopoly: The General Picture
Economics in Action: Shocked by the High Price of Electricity
Module 28 Monopoly, Government Policy, and Social Welfare
28.1 Welfare Effects of Monopoly
28.2 Government Policy Toward Monopoly
28.3 Dealing with Natural Monopoly
1. Public Ownership
2. Regulation
28.4 Network Externalities and Dominant Firms: A New Generation of Market Power
Economics in Action: A New Generation of Market Power
Module 29 Price Discrimination
29.1 Price Discrimination Defined
29.2 The Logic of Price Discrimination
29.3 Price Discrimination and Elasticity
29.4 Perfect Price Discrimination
Business Case: Amazon and Hachette Go to War
Section 9 Review
Section 9 Summary
Section 9 Key Terms
Section 10 Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition
Regulators Give Bridgestone a Flat Tire
Module 30 Oligopoly
30.1 Understanding Oligopoly
A Duopoly Example
Collusion and Competition
30.2 Oligopoly in Practice
The Legal Framework
Tacit Collusion and Price Wars
Economics in Action: The Case Against Chocolate Producers Melts
Module 31 Game Theory
31.1 Games Oligopolists Play
The Prisoners’ Dilemma
Overcoming the Prisoners’ Dilemma: Repeated Interaction and Tacit Collusion
Economics in Action: The Demise of OPEC
Module 32 Monopolistic Competition
32.1 Understanding Monopolistic Competition
Monopolistic Competition in the Short Run
Monopolistic Competition in the Long Run
32.2 Monopolistic Competition versus Perfect Competition
Price, Marginal Cost, and Average Total Cost
Is Monopolistic Competition Inefficient?
Economics in Action: Hits and Flops in the App Store
Module 33 Product Differentiation and Advertising
33.1 How Firms Differentiate Their Products
Differentiation by Style or Type
Differentiation by Location
Differentiation by Quality
Product Differentiation: In Sum
33.2 Controversies About Product Differentiation
The Role of Advertising
Brand Names
Economics in Action: The Perfume Industry: Leading Consumers by the Nose
Business Case: Virgin Atlantic Blows the Whistle . . . or Blows It?
Section 10 Review
Section 10 Summary
Section 10 Key Terms
Section 11 Market Failure and the Role of Government
Trouble Underfoot
Module 34 Externalities
34.1 The Economics of a Negative Externality: Pollution
The Costs and Benefits of Pollution
Why a Market Economy Produces Too Much Pollution
The Inefficiency of Excess Pollution
34.2 The Economics of Positive Externalities
Preserved Farmland: A Positive Externality
Positive Externalities in Today’s Economy
Economics in Action: Texting and Driving
Module 35 Pollution, Government Policy, and the Great Energy Transition
35.1 Government Policies to Address Pollution
Environmental Standards
Emissions Taxes versus Environmental Standards
Tradable Emissions Permits
35.2 The Economics of Climate Change and the Great Energy Transition
The Cause of Climate Change
Policies to Address Climate Change
Climate Change Mitigation: Costs and Benefits
Economics in Action: Over 3,500 Economists Agree: Tax Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Module 36 Public Goods and Common Resources
36.1 Private Goods—And Others
Characteristics of Goods
Why Markets Can Supply Only Private Goods Efficiently
36.2 Public Goods
Providing Public Goods
How Much of a Public Good Should Be Provided?
36.3 Common Resources
The Problem of Overuse
The Efficient Use and Maintenance of a Common Resource
36.4 Artificially Scarce Goods
Economics in Action: Twenty-First-Century Piracy
Business Case: Xcel Energy Goes for a Win-Win
Section 11 Review
Section 11 Summary
Section 11 Key Terms
Section 12 Factor Markets and the Distribution of Income
The Value of a Degree
Module 37 Factor Markets
37.1 The Economy’s Factors of Production
Why Factor Prices Matter
Factor Incomes and the Distribution of Income
37.2 Marginal Productivity and Factor Demand
Value of the Marginal Product
Value of the Marginal Product and Factor Demand
Shifts of the Factor Demand Curve
Economics in Action: The Factor Distribution of Income in the United States
Module 38 Marginal Productivity Theory and the Economy’s Distribution of Income
38.1 The Marginal Productivity Theory of Income Distribution
38.2 Is the Marginal Productivity Theory of Income Distribution Really True?
Wage Disparities in Practice
Wage Disparities Explained By the Marginal Productivity Theory
38.3 Wage Disparities Unexplained by Marginal Productivity Theory
Market Power
Efficiency Wages
Discrimination
Economics in Action: Marginal Productivity and the Minimum-Wage Puzzle
Module 39 The Market for Labor
39.1 The Supply of Labor
Work versus Leisure
Wages and Labor Supply
Shifts of the Labor Supply Curve
Economics in Action: The Real Housewives of the United States
Module 40 The Economics of the Welfare State
40.1 Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy
The Logic of the Welfare State
The Problem of Poverty
Economic Inequality
Economic Insecurity
40.2 The U.S. Welfare State
Social Security and Unemployment Insurance
The Effects of the Welfare State on Poverty and Inequality
40.3 Health Care and the Welfare State
The Economics of Health Insurance
Government Health Insurance
The Affordable Care Act
Effects of the ACA
Economics in Action: Long-Term Trends in Income Inequality in the United States
Business Case: Walmart Revolutionizes Its Labor Practices
Section 12 Review
Section 12 Summary
Section 12 Key Terms
Solutions to Check Your Understanding Questions
Glossary
Index
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