Microeconomics: A Modern Approach Microeconomics: A Modern Approach
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(All chapters, except Chapter 1, contain Exercises and Problems.)

  1. Economics and Institutions: A Shift of Emphasis
  2. Consumers and Their Preferences
  3. Demand and Behavior in Markets
    Appendix A: The Demand Curve
    Appendix B: The Expenditure Function
    Appendix C: Price-Compensating Variations
  4. The Problem of Exchange
    Appendix A: The Shrinking of the Core
    Appendix B: Pareto Optima and the Contract Curve
    Appendix C: Competitive Equilibrium and Pareto Optimality
  5. The Discovery of Production and Its Technology
    Appendix A: The Production Function
  6. Cost and Choice
    Appendix A: The Cost Function
  7. Game Theory and the Tools of Strategic Business Analysis
    Appendix A: Games of Incomplete Information
    Appendix B: Repeated Games
  8. The Internal Organization of the Firm
  9. The Age of Entrepreneurship: Monopoly
    Appendix A: The Monopoly Problem
    Appendix B: Price Discrimination
  10. Natural Monopoly and the Economics of Regulation
    Appendix A: The Allocation of Common Costs: Cross-Subsidization
    Appendix B: Franchise Monopoly
  11. The World of Oligopoly: Preliminaries to Successful Entry
    Appendix A: Nash Equilibrium in Duopoly
    Appendix B: Implicit Collusion and Repeated Games
  12. Market Entry and the Emergence of Perfect Competition
    Appendix A: Incomplete Information and Entry Prevention
  13. Perfectly Competitive Markets
    Appendix A: Two Welfare Propositions
  14. Uncertainty and the Emergence of Insurance
  15. General Equilibrium and the Origins of the Free-Market and Interventionist Ideologies
  16. Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection: Informational Market Failures
  17. Externalities: The Free Market-Interventionist Battle Continues
    Appendix A: Excess Production Under Externalities
  18. Public Goods, the Consequences of Strategic Voting Behavior, and the Role of Government
  19. Input Markets and the Origins of Class Conflict
Answers to Selected Exercises and Problems


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