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Welcome to Economics |
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What Is Economics, and Why Is It Important? | |||
Microeconomics and Macroeconomics | |||
How Economists Use Theories and Models to Understand Economic Issues | |||
How Economies Can Be Organized: An Overview of Economic Systems | |||
Choice in a World of Scarcity |
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How Individuals Make Choices Based on Their Budget Constraint | |||
The Production Possibilities Frontier and Social Choices | |||
Confronting Objections to the Economic Approach | |||
Demand and Supply |
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Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium in Markets for Goods and Services | |||
Shifts in Demand and Supply for Goods and Services | |||
Changes in Equilibrium Price and Quantity: The Four-Step Process | |||
Price Ceilings and Price Floors | |||
Demand, Supply, and Efficiency | |||
Labor and Financial Markets |
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Demand and Supply at Work in Labor Markets | |||
Demand and Supply in Financial Markets | |||
The Market System as an Efficient Mechanism for Information | |||
Elasticity |
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Price Elasticity of Demand and Price Elasticity of Supply | |||
Polar Cases of Elasticity and Constant Elasticity | |||
Elasticity and Pricing | |||
Elasticity in Areas Other Than Price | |||
Consumer Choices |
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Consumption Choices | |||
How Changes in Income and Prices Affect Consumption Choices | |||
Labor-Leisure Choices | |||
Intertemporal Choices in Financial Capital Markets | |||
Production, Cost and Industry Structure |
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Explicit and Implicit Costs, and Accounting and Economic Profit | |||
Production in the Short Run | |||
Costs in the Short Run | |||
Production in the Long Run | |||
Costs in the Long Run | |||
Perfect Competition |
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Perfect Competition and Why It Matters | |||
How Perfectly Competitive Firms Make Output Decisions | |||
Entry and Exit Decisions in the Long Run | |||
Efficiency in Perfectly Competitive Markets | |||
Monopoly |
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How Monopolies Form: Barriers to Entry | |||
How a Profit-Maximizing Monopoly Chooses Output and Price | |||
Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly |
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Monopolistic Competition | |||
Oligopoly | |||
Monopoly and Antitrust Policy |
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Corporate Mergers | |||
Regulating Anticompetitive Behavior | |||
Regulating Natural Monopolies | |||
The Great Deregulation Experiment | |||
Environmental Protection and Negative Externalities |
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The Economics of Pollution | |||
Command-and-Control Regulation | |||
Market-Oriented Environmental Tools | |||
The Benefits and Costs of U.S. Environmental Laws | |||
International Environmental Issues | |||
The Tradeoff between Economic Output and Environmental Protection | |||
Positive Externalities and Public Goods |
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Why the Private Sector Under Invests in Innovation | |||
How Governments Can Encourage Innovation | |||
Public Goods | |||
Poverty and Economic Inequality |
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Drawing the Poverty Line | |||
The Poverty Trap | |||
The Safety Net | |||
Income Inequality: Measurement and Causes | |||
Government Policies to Reduce Income Inequality | |||
Labor Markets and Income |
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Market Power on the Supply Side of Labor Markets: Unions | |||
Employment Discrimination | |||
Immigration | |||
Information, Risk, and Insurance |
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The Problem of Imperfect Information and Asymmetric Information | |||
Insurance and Imperfect Information | |||
Financial Markets |
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How Businesses Raise Financial Capital | |||
How Households Supply Financial Capital | |||
How to Accumulate Personal Wealth | |||
Public Economy |
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Voter Participation and Costs of Elections | |||
Special Interest Politics | |||
Flaws in the Democratic System of Government | |||
International Trade |
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Absolute and Comparative Advantage | |||
What Happens When a Country Has an Absolute Advantage in All Goods | |||
Intra-industry Trade between Similar Economies | |||
The Benefits of Reducing Barriers to International Trade | |||
Globalization and Protectionism |
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Protectionism: An Indirect Subsidy from Consumers to Producers | |||
International Trade and Its Effects on Jobs, Wages, and Working Conditions | |||
Arguments in Support of Restricting Imports | |||
How Trade Policy Is Enacted: Globally, Regionally, and Nationally | |||
The Tradeoffs of Trade Policy |