Principles of Microeconomics

Authors Bob Frank, Ben Bernanke, and introducing Kate Antonovics from the University of California San Diego, present a coherent short list of core principles in introductory economics and reinforce them by illustrating and applying each in numerous contexts. With engaging questions, explanations and exercises, the authors help students relate economic principles to a host of everyday experiences such as going to the ATM or purchasing airline tickets. Throughout this process, the authors encourage students to become “economic naturalists:” people who employ basic economic principles to understand and explain what they observe in the world around them.

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Part 1 Introduction

1. Thinking Like an Economist

2. Comparative Advantage

3. Supply and Demand

Part 2 Competition and the Invisible Hand

4. Elasticity

5. Demand

6. Perfectly Competitive Supply

7. Efficiency, Exchange, and the Invisible Hand in Action

Part 3 Market Imperfections

8. Monopoly, Oligopoly, and Monopolistic Competition

9. Games and Strategic Behavior

10. Externalities and Property Rights

11. The Economics of Information

Part 4 Economics of Public Policy

12. Labor Markets, Poverty, and Income Distribution

13. The Environment, Health, and Safety

14. Public Goods and Tax Policy