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Miller, Economics Today:  The Micro View, 16e

Brief Table of Contents

 

PART I Introduction

1 The Nature of Economics

2 Scarcity and the World of Trade-Offs

3 Demand and Supply

4 Extensions of Demand and Supply Analysis

5 Public Spending and Public Choice

6 Funding the Public Sector

 

IN THIS VOLUME, CHAPTER 6 IS FOLLOWED BY CHAPTER

PART 5 Dimensions of Microeconomics

19 Demand and Supply Elasticity

20 Consumer Choice

21 Rents, Profits, and the Financial Environment of Business

 

PART 6 Market Structure, Resource Allocation, and Regulation

22 The Firm: Cost and Output Determination

23 Perfect Competition

24 Monopoly

25 Monopolistic Competition

26 Oligopoly and Strategic Behavior

27 Regulation and Antitrust Policy in a Globalized Economy

 

PART 7 Labor Resources and the Environment

28 The Labor Market: Demand, Supply, and Outsourcing

29 Unions and Labor Market Monopoly Power

30 Income, Poverty, and Health Care

31 Environmental Economics

 

PART 8 Global Economics

32 Comparative Advantage and the Open Economy

33 Exchange Rates and the Balance of Payments