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About the Authors
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Dedication
Preface
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Economics: The Study of Choice
1.1
Start Up: Economics in the News
1.2
Defining Economics
1.3
The Field of Economics
1.4
The Economist’s Tool Kit
1.5
Review and Practice
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Confronting Scarcity: Choices in Production
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2.1
Start Up: An Attempt to Produce Safer Air Travel
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2.2
Factors of Production
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The Production Possibilities Curve
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2.4
Applications of the Production Possibilities Model
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2.5
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Demand and Supply
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3.1
Start Up: Crazy for Coffee
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3.2
Demand
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3.3
Supply
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3.4
Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium
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Applications of Demand and Supply
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4.1
Start Up: A Composer Logs On
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4.2
Putting Demand and Supply to Work
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4.3
Government Intervention in Markets: Price Floors and Price Ceilings
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4.4
Government Intervention in Markets: Taxes
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4.5
Review and Practice
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Elasticity: A Measure of Response
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5.1
Start Up: Raise Fares? Lower Fares? What’s a Public Transit Manager to Do?
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5.2
The Price Elasticity of Demand
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5.3
Responsiveness of Demand to Other Factors
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Price Elasticity of Supply and Putting It All Together
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Markets, Maximizers, and Efficiency
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6.1
Start Up: A Drive in the Country
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6.2
The Logic of Maximizing Behavior
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6.3
Maximizing in the Marketplace
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6.4
Market Failure
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The Analysis of Consumer Choice
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7.1
Start Up: A Day at the Grocery Store
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7.2
The Concept of Utility
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7.3
Utility Maximization and Demand
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7.4
Indifference Curve Analysis: An Alternative Approach to Understanding Consumer Choice
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7.5
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Production and Cost
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8.1
Start Up: Street Cleaning Around the World
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8.2
Production Choices and Costs: The Short Run
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8.3
Production Choices and Costs: The Long Run
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Competitive Markets for Goods and Services
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9.1
Start Up: Always on the Margin; Always on the Edge
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9.2
Perfect Competition: A Model
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9.3
Profit Maximization in the Short Run
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9.4
Perfect Competition in the Long Run
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Monopoly
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10.1
Start Up: Surrounded by Monopolies
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10.2
The Nature of Monopoly
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10.3
The Monopoly Model
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10.4
Assessing Monopoly
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The World of Imperfect Competition
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11.1
Start Up: Looking at the World Through Cash-Colored Glasses
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Monopolistic Competition: Competition Among the Many
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11.3
Oligopoly: Competition Among the Few
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Extensions of Imperfect Competition: Advertising and Price Discrimination
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Factor Markets
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12.1
Start Up: College Pays
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12.2
Labor Markets: Demand and Supply
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Labor Markets in Perfect Competition
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Imperfectly Competitive Labor Markets: Monopoly and Monopsony
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Public Finance and Public Choice
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13.1
Start Up: Your Tax Dollars at Work
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13.2
The Role of Government in a Market Economy
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13.3
Financing Government
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13.4
Choices in the Public Sector
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13.5
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International Trade
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14.1
Start Up: Support Your Local Poet
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14.2
The Gains from Trade
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14.3
Partial Equilibrium and Two-Way Trade
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14.4
Restrictions on International Trade
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The Economics of the Environment and Natural Resources
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15.1
Start Up: Environmental Headwinds
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15.2
Maximizing the Net Benefits of Pollution
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15.3
Alternatives in Pollution Control
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Natural Resources and Conservation
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Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination
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16.1
Start Up: Occupy Wall Street; Change the World?
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16.2
Income Inequality
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16.3
The Economics of Poverty
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16.4
The Economics of Discrimination
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Graphs in Economics
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A.1
Graphs in Economics
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A.2
Nonlinear Relationships and Graphs without Numbers
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Using Graphs and Charts to Show Values of Variables
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