Contiene: Índice temático y bibliografía.

I. Introduction: Ten principles of economics - Thinking like an economist - Interdependence and the gains from trade -- II. Supply and demand I: How markets work: The Market forces of supply and demand - Elasticity and its application - Supply, demand, and the government policies -- III. Supply and demand ii: markets and welfare:
consumers, producers, and the efficiency of markets - Application: The costs of taxation - Application: International trade -- IV. The economics of the public sector: Externalities - public goods and common resources - The design of the tax system -- V. Firm behavior and the organization of industry: The costs of production - Firms in competitive markets - Monopoly - Monopolistic competition -- VI. The Economics of labor markets: The Markets for the factors of production - Earnings and discrimination - The Distribution of income -- VII. Advanced topic: The theory of consumer choice -- VIII. Data of macroeconomics: Measuring a nation's income - Measuring the cost of living -- IX. The real economy in the long run: Production and growth - Saving, Investment, and the financial system - The natural rate of unemployment -- X. Money and prices in the long run: The Monetary system - Inflation: Its causes and costs -- XI. The macroeconomics of open economies: Open-economy macroeconomics: Basic concepts - A macroeconomic theory of the open economy -- XII. Short-run economic fluctuations: Aggregate demand and aggregate supply - The Influence of monetary and fiscal policy on aggregate demand - The short-run tradeoff between Inflation and unemployment -- XIII. Final thoughts: Five debates over macroeconomic policy

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