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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1337794996
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1337794992
Author: William J. Baumol, Alan S. Blinder, John L. Solow

Master today’s principles of microeconomics and gain an understanding of current economic issues with the solid introduction and policy-based examples and applications found in Baumol/Blinder/Solow’s MICROECONOMICS: PRINCIPLES AND POLICY, 14E. Written by several of today’s most respected economists, this book is one of the most up-to-date microeconomics texts on the market — incorporating data and issues as recent as 2018. The authors combine the right level of rigor and detail to clarify even the most complicated microeconomic concepts. An entirely new chapter closes the book by delving into some of the most important issues confronting the U.S. economy today. Throughout this edition, well-developed examples, intriguing puzzles and meaningful microeconomic issues provide an excellent balance of theory to application while keeping you engaged and intrigued.

Table of Content:

Part 1: Getting Acquainted with Economics
Chapter 1: What Is Economics?
1-1 Ideas for beyond the Final Exam
1-2 Inside the Economist’s Tool Kit
Summary
Key Terms
Discussion Questions
Appendix: Using Graphs: A Review
Chapter 2: The Economy: Myth and Reality
2-1 The American Economy: A Thumbnail Sketch
2-2 The Inputs: Labor and Capital
2-3 The Outputs: What Does America Produce?
2-4 The Central Role of Business Firms
2-5 What’s Missing from the Picture? Government
2-6 Conclusion: It’s a Mixed Economy
Summary
Key Terms
Discussion Questions
Chapter 3: The Fundamental Economic Problem: Scarcity and Choice
3-1 Scarcity, Choice, and Opportunity Cost
3-2 Scarcity and Choice for a Single Firm
3-3 Scarcity and Choice for the Entire Society
3-4 The Three Coordination Tasks of Any Economy
3-5 The Concept of Efficiency
3-6 Task 1. How the Market Fosters Efficient Resource Allocation
3-7 Task 2. Market Exchange and Deciding How Much of Each Good to Produce
3-8 Task 3. How to Distribute the Economy’s Outputs among Consumers
3-9 Looking Ahead
Summary
Key Terms
Test Yourself
Discussion Questions
Chapter 4: Supply and Demand: An Initial Look
4-1 The Invisible Hand
4-2 Demand and Quantity Demanded
4-3 Supply and Quantity Supplied
4-4 Supply and Demand Equilibrium
4-5 Effects of Demand Shifts on Supply-Demand Equilibrium
4-6 Supply Shifts and Supply-Demand Equilibrium
4-7 Battling the Invisible Hand: The Market Fights Back
4-8 A Simple But Powerful Lesson
Summary
Key Terms
Test Yourself
Discussion Questions
Part 2: The Building Blocks of Demand and Supply
Chapter 5: Consumer Choice: Individual and Market Demand
5-1 Scarcity and Demand
5-2 Utility: A Tool to Analyze Purchase Decisions
5-3 Behavioral Economics: Are Economic Decisions Really Made “Rationally”?
5-4 Consumer Choice as a Trade-Off: Opportunity Cost
5-5 From Individual Demand Curves to Market Demand Curves
Summary
Key Terms
Test Yourself
Discussion Questions
Appendix: Analyzing Consumer Choice Graphically: Indifference Curve Analysis
Chapter 6: Demand and Elasticity
6-1 Elasticity: The Measure of Responsiveness
6-2 What Determines Price Elasticities of Demand?
6-3 Price Elasticity of Demand: Its Effect on Total Revenue and Total Expenditure
6-4 Elasticity as a General Concept
6-5 The Time Period of the Demand Curve and Economic Decision Making
6-6 Real-World Application: AOL’s Flat Rate Internet Pricing
6-7 In Conclusion
Summary
Key Terms
Test Yourself
Discussion Questions
Appendix: How Can We Find a True Demand Curve from Historical Statistics?
Chapter 7: Production, Inputs, and Cost: Building Blocks for Supply Analysis
7-1 The Economic Short Run versus the Economic Long Run
7-2 Production, Input Choice, and Cost with One Variable Input
7-3 Multiple Input Decisions: The Choice of Optimal Input Combinations
7-4 Cost and Its Dependence on Output
7-5 Economies of Scale
Summary
Key Terms
Test Yourself
Discussion Question
Appendix: Production Indifference Curves
Chapter 8: Output, Price, and Profit: The Importance of Marginal Analysis
8-1 Price and Quantity: One Decision, Not Two
8-2 Total Profit: Keep Your Eye on the Goal
8-3 Economic Profit and Optimal Decision Making
8-4 Marginal Analysis and Maximization of Total Profit
8-5 Generalization: The Logic of Marginal Analysis and Maximization
8-6 Conclusion: The Fundamental Role of Marginal Analysis
8-7 The Theory and Reality: A Word of Caution
Summary
Key Terms
Test Yourself
Discussion Question
Appendix: The Relationships among Total, Average, and Marginal Data
Chapter 9: The Financial Markets and the Economy: The Tail That Wags the Dog?
9-1 Corporations and Their Unique Characteristics
9-2 Stock Exchanges and Their Functions
9-3 Betting on Securities: Risks to the Entire Economy
Summary
Key Terms
Test Yourself
Discussion Questions
Appendix: Buying Stocks and Bonds
Part 3: The Virtues of the Free Market
Chapter 10: The Firm and the Industry under Perfect Competition
10-1 Perfect Competition Defined
10-2 The Perfectly Competitive Firm
10-3 The Perfectly Competitive Industry
10-4 Perfect Competition and Productive Efficiency
Summary
Key Terms
Test Yourself
Discussion Questions
Chapter 11: The Case for Free Markets: The Price System
11-1 Efficient Resource Allocation and Pricing
11-2 Scarcity and the Need to Coordinate Economic Decisions
11-3 How Perfect Competition Achieves Efficiency: A Graphic Analysis
11-4 How Perfect Competition Achieves Efficient Output: Marginal Analysis
11-5 Toward Assessment of the Price Mechanism
Summary
Key Terms
Test Yourself
Discussion Questions
Part 4: The Limitations of Free Markets
Chapter 12: Monopoly
12-1 Monopoly Defined
12-2 The Monopolist’s Supply Decision
12-3 Can Anything Good Be Said about Monopoly?
12-4 Price Discrimination under Monopoly
12-5 Monopsony: The Case of a Single Buyer
Summary
Key Terms
Test Yourself
Discussion Questions
Chapter 13: Between Competition and Monopoly
13-1 Monopolistic Competition
13-2 Oligopoly
13-3 The Game Theory Approach
13-4 Contestable Markets
13-5 A Glance Backward: Comparing the Four Market Structures
13-6 Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly, and Public Welfare
Summary
Key Terms
Test Yourself
Discussion Questions
Chapter 14: Limiting Market Power: Antitrust and Regulation
14-1 The Public Interest Issue: Monopoly Power versus Mere Size
14-2 Antitrust Laws and Policies
14-3 Anticompetitive Behavior and Antitrust
14-4 Concentration
14-5 What Is Price Regulation?
14-6 The Logic behind Price Regulation
14-7 Difficulties with Price Regulation
14-8 The Deregulation Experience
Summary
Key Terms
Discussion Questions
Chapter 15: The Shortcomings of Free Markets
15-1 What Does the Market Do Poorly?
15-2 Efficient Resource Allocation: A Review
15-3 Externalities: Getting the Prices Wrong
15-4 Provision of Public Goods
15-5 Allocation of Resources between Present and Future
15-6 Imperfect Information
15-7 Market Failure and Government Failure
15-8 The Cost Disease of Personal Services
15-9 The Market System on Balance
15-10 Epilogue: The Unforgiving Market, Its Gift of Abundance, and Its Dangerous Friends
Summary
Key Terms
Test Yourself
Discussion Questions
Chapter 16: Externalities, the Environment, and Natural Resources
16-1 The Economics of Environmental Protection
16-2 Review-Externalities: A Critical Shortcoming of the Market Mechanism
16-3 Basic Approaches to Environmental Policy
16-4 Two Cheers for the Market
16-5 The Economics of Natural Resources
16-6 The Free Market and Pricing of Natural Resources
16-7 Exhaustible Resources, Scarcity, and Rising Prices
16-8 The Bioeconomics of Renewable Resources
Summary
Key Terms
Test Yourself
Discussion Questions
Chapter 17: Taxation and Resource Allocation
17-1 Basic Tax Concepts
17-2 The Federal Tax System
17-3 The State and Local Tax System
17-4 The Concept of Equity in Taxation
17-5 The Concept of Efficiency in Taxation
17-6 Shifting the Tax Burden: Tax Incidence
17-7 When Taxation Can Improve Efficiency
17-8 Equity, Efficiency, and the Optimal Tax
Summary
Key Terms
Test Yourself
Discussion Questions
Appendix: A Graphical Analysis of Excess Burden
Part 5: The Distribution of Income
Chapter 18: Pricing the Factors of Production
18-1 The Principle of Marginal Productivity
18-2 Inputs and Their Derived Demand Curves
18-3 Investment, Capital, and Interest
18-4 The Determination of Rent
18-5 Payments to Business Owners: Are Profits Too High or Too Low?
18-6 Criticisms of Marginal Productivity Theory
Summary
Key Terms
Test Yourself
Discussion Questions
Appendix: Discounting and Present Value
Chapter 19: Labor and Entrepreneurship: The Human Inputs
19-1 The Markets for Labor
19-2 Wage Determination in Competitive Markets
19-3 The Supply of Labor
19-4 Why Do Wages Differ?
19-5 Unions and Collective Bargaining
19-6 The Entrepreneur: The Other Human Input
19-7 The Market Economy’s Incredible Growth Record
19-8 Sources of Free-Market Innovation: The Role of the Entrepreneur
19-9 Entrepreneurship and Growth
19-10 Institutions and the Supply of Innovative Entrepreneurship
Summary
Key Terms
Test Yourself
Discussion Questions
Chapter 20: Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination
20-1 The Facts: Poverty
20-2 The Facts: Inequality
20-3 Some Reasons for Unequal Incomes
20-4 The Facts: Discrimination
20-5 The Trade-Off between Equality and Efficiency
20-6 Policies to Combat Poverty
20-7 Other Policies to Combat Inequality
20-8 Policies to Combat Discrimination
20-9 A Look Back
Summary
Key Terms
Test Yourself
Discussion Questions
Appendix: The Economic Theory of Discrimination
Part 6: The United States in the World Economy
Chapter 21: International Trade and Comparative Advantage
21-1 Why Trade?
21-2 International versus Intranational Trade
21-3 The Principle of Comparative Advantage
21-4 The Arithmetic of Comparative Advantage
21-5 Tariffs, Quotas, and Other Interferences with Trade
21-6 Why Inhibit Trade?
21-7 Can Cheap Imports Hurt a Country?
Summary
Key Terms
Test Yourself
Discussion Questions
Appendix: Demand, and Pricing in World Trade
Part 7: The Economy Today
Chapter 22: Contemporary Issues in the U.S. Economy
22-1 Will Artificial Intelligence Leave No Work for Humans to Do?
22-2 Are Uber and AirBnB the Markets of the Future?
22-3 Is The “Gig” Economy the Future of Work?
22-4 Is The Student Debt “Crisis” Really a Crisis?
22-5 How Will We Pay for Health Insurance?
Summary
Key Terms
Discussion Questions
Appendix
Glossary
Index