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Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Each chapter ends with at least one of the following: summary, key terms, review questions, problems, and Internet site addresses. PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO MICROECONOMICS CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Wants and Scarcity: Can Human Wants Ever Be Fully Satisfied?
Scarcity: The Pervasive Economic Problem Example 1-1: More Health Care Means Less of Other Goods and Services 1.2 Functions of an Economic System: 1.3 Microeconomic Theory and the Price System: The Circular Flow of Economic Activity Determination and Function of Prices Example 1-2: Bad Weather and High Demand Send Wheat Prices
Soaring What Role for the Government? Example 1-3: Economic Inefficiencies Cause Collapse of Communist Regimes 1.4 The Margin: The Key Unifying Concept in Microeconomics: The Crucial Importance of the Concept of the Margin Example 1-4: Marginal Analysis in TV Advertising Some Clarifications on the Use of the Margin 1.5 Specialization,
Exchange, and the International Framework of Microeconomics: Specialization and Exchange The International Framework of Microeconomics Example 1-5: Dell and Other PCs Sold in the United States Are Everything but American! 1.6 Models, Methodology, and Value Judgments: Models and Methodology Positive and Normative Analysis At the
Frontier: Do Economists Ever Agree on Anything? CHAPTER 2: BASIC DEMAND AND SUPPLY ANALYSIS 2.1 Market Analysis: 2.2 Market Demand: Demand Schedule and Demand Curve Changes in Demand 2.3 Market Supply: Supply Schedule and Supply Curve Changes in Supply 2.4 When Is a Market in Equilibrium?: Example 2-1: Equilibrium
Price by Auction 2.5 Adjustment to Changes in Demand and Supply: Comparative Static Analysis: Adjustment to Changes in Demand Adjustment to Changes in Supply Example 2-2: Changes in Demand and Supply and Coffee Prices 2.6 Domestic Demand and Supply, Imports, and Prices: Example 2-3: The Large U.S. Automotive Trade Deficit Keeps
U.S. Auto Prices Down 2.7 Interfering With Versus Working Through the Market: Example 2-4: Rent Control Harms the Housing Market Example 2-5: The Economics of U.S. Farm Support Programs Example 2-6: Working Through the Market with an Excise Tax Example 2-7: Fighting the Drug War by Reducing Demand and Supply At the Frontier:
Nonclearing Markets Theory Appendix: The Algebra of Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium Market Equilibrium Algebraically Shifts in Demand and Supply and in Equilibrium The Effect of an Excise Tax PART TWO: THEORY OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR AND DEMAND CHAPTER 3: CONSUMER PREFERENCES AND CHOICE 3.1 Utility Analysis: Total
and Marginal Utility Cardinal or Ordinal Utility Example 3-1: Does Money Buy Happiness? 3.2 Consumer's Tastes: Indifference Curves: Indifference Curves-What Do They Show? Characteristics of Indifference Curves The Marginal Rate of Substitution Some Special Types of Indifference Curves Example 3-2: How Ford Decided on the Characteristics of
Its Taurus 3.3 International Convergence of Tastes: Example 3-3: Gillette Introduces the Sensor and Mach3 Razors-Two Truly Global Products 3.4 The Consumer's Income and Price Constraints: The Budget Line: Definition of the Budget Line Changes in Income and Prices and the Budget Line Example 3-4: Time as a Constraint 3.5 Consumer's Choice:
Utility Maximization Example 3-5: Uility Maximization and Government Warnings on Junk Food Corner Solutions Example 3-6: Water Rationing in the West Marginal Utility Approach to Utility Maximization At the Frontier: The Theory of Revealed Preference CHAPTER 4: CONSUMER BEHAVIOR AND INDIVIDUAL DEMAND 4.1 Changes in Income
and the Engel Curve: Income-Consumption Curve and Engel Curve Example 4-1: Engel's Law After a Century Normal and Inferior Goods Example 4-2: Many People Are Blowing Their Pension Money Long Before Retirement 4.2 Changes in Price and the Individual Demand Curve: Example 4-3: Higher Alcohol Prices Would Sharply Reduce Youth
Alcohol Use and Traffic Deaths 4.3 Substitution Effect and Income Effect: How Are the Substitution Effect and the Income Effect Separated? the secret schizoid ielts reading answers Example 4-4: Substitution and Income Effect of a Gasoline Tax Substitution Effect and Income Effect for Inferior Goods Example 4-5: Giffen Behavior Found! 4.4
Substitution Between Domestic and Foreign Goods: Example 4-6: What Is an "American" Car?

4.5 Some Applications of Indifference Curve Analysis: Is a Cash Subsidy Better Than Food Stamps? Consumer Surplus Measures Unpaid Benefits Benefits from Exchange At the Frontier: The Characteristics Approach to Consumer Theory Appendix: Index Numbers and Changes in Consumer Welfare Expenditure, Laspeyres, and Paasche Indices How
Are Changes in Consumer Wealth Measured? Example 4-7: The Consumer Price Index, Inflation, and Changes in the Standard of Living Example 4-8: Comparing the Standard of Living of Various Countries CHAPTER 5: MARKET DEMAND AND ELASTICITIES 5.1 The Market Demand for a Commodity: Example 5-1: Demand for Big Macs 5.2 Price
Elasticity of Market Demand: Measuring the Price Elasticity of Demand Price Elasticity Graphically Price Elasticity and Total Expenditures What Determines Price Elasticity? fuxuluk.pdf Example 5-2: Price Elasticity for Clothing Increases with Time 5.3 Income Elasticity of Demand: Example 5-3: European Cars Are Luxuries, Flour Is an Inferior Good
5.4 Cross Elasticity of Demand: Example 5-4: Margarine and Butter Are Substitutes, Entertainment and Food Are Complements 5.5 Price Elasticity and Income Elasticity of Imports and Exports: Example 5-5: Price Elasticity and Income Elasticity for Imports and Exports in the Real World 5.6 Marginal Revenue and Elasticity: Demand, Total Revenue,
and Marginal Revenue Geometry of Marginal Revenue Determination Marginal Revenue, Price, and Elasticity Example 5-6: U.S. Consumer Demand for Alcoholic Beverages At the Frontier: The Marketing Revolution with Micromarketing Appendix: Empirical Estimation of Demand by Regression Analysis Example 5-7: Estimating and Forecasting U.S.
Demand for Electricity CHAPTER 6: CHOICE UNDER UNCERTAINTY 6.1 Risk and Uncertainty in Demand Choices: Example 6-1: The Risk Faced by Coca-Cola in Changing Its Secret Formula 6.2 Measuring Risk: Probability Distributions The Standard Deviation Example 6-2: Risk and Crime Deterrence 6.3 Utility Theory and Risk Aversion: Different
Preferences Toward Risk Maximizing Expected Utility Example 6-3: America's Gambling Craze 6.4 Insurance and Gambling: Why Do Some Individuals Buy Insurance? Why Do Some Individuals Gamble? Example 6-4: Gambling and Insuring by the Same Individual-A Seeming Contradiction 6.5 Risk Aversion and Indifference Curves: Example 6-5:
Spreading Risks in the Choice of a Portfolio 6.6 Reducing Risk and Uncertainty: Gathering More Information Diversification Insurance Example 6-6: Some Disasters as Nondiversifiable Risks 6.7 Behavioral Economics: Example 6-7: Behavioral Economics in Finance At the Frontier: Foreign-Exchange Risks and Hedging PART THREE: PRODUCTION,
COSTS, AND COMPETITIVE MARKETS CHAPTER 7: PRODUCTION THEORY 7.1 Relating Outputs to Inputs: Organization of Production Classification of Inputs 7.2 Production with One Variable Input: Total, Average, and Marginal Product The Geometry of Average and Marginal Product Curves The Law of Diminishing Returns Example 7-1:
Economics-The Dismal Science Because of Diminishing Returns 7.3 Production with Two Variable Inputs: What do Isoquants Show? Derivation of Total Product Curves from the Isoquant Map 7.4 The Shape of Isoquants: Characteristics of Isoquants Economic Reign of Production Fixed-Proportions Production Functions Example 7-2: Trading Traveling
Time for Gasoline Consumption on the Nation's Highways 7.5 Constant, Increasing, and Decreasing Returns to Scale: Example 7-3: General Motors Decides Smaller Is Better 7.6 Technological Progress and International Competitiveness: Meaning and Importance of Innovations Example 7-4: How Do Firms Get New Technology?

7.7 Open Innovation Model: Example 7-5: Open Innovations at Procter & Gamble Innovations and the International Competitiveness of U.S. Firms Example 7-6: How Xerox Lost and Regained Market Share but Is Now Struggling to Remain Internationally Competitive At the Frontier: The New Computer-Aided Production Revolution and the
International Competitiveness of U.S. Firms Appendix: The Cobb-Douglas Production Function The Formula Illustration Empirical Estimation Example 7-7: Output Elasticity of Labor and Capital and Returns to Scale in U.S. and Canadian Manufacturing CHAPTER 8 COSTS OF PRODUCTION 8.1 The Nature of Production Costs: Example 8-1: Cost of
Attending College 8.2 Cost in the Short Run: Total Costs Per-Unit Costs Geometry of Per-Unit Cost Curves Example 8-2: Per-Unit Cost Curves in Corn Production and in Traveling 8.3 Cost in the Long Run: Isocost Lines Least-Cost Input Combination Cost Minimization in the Long Run and in the Short Run Example 8-3: Least-Cost Combination of
Gasoline and Driving Time 8.4 Expansion Path and Long-Run Cost Curves: Expansion Path and the Long-Run Total Cost Curve Derivation of the Long-Run Average and Marginal Cost Curves The Relationship Between Short- and Long-Run Average Cost Curves Example 8-4: Long-Run Average Cost Curve in Electricity Generation 8.5 Shape of the Long-
Run Average Cost Curve: Example 8-5: Shape of the Long-Run Average Curves in Various Industries Example 8-6: Minimum Efficient Scale in Various U.S. Food Industries 8.6 Multiproduct Firms and Dynamic Changes in Costs: Economies of Scope The Learning Curve Example 8-7: Learning Curve for the Lockheed L-1011 Aircraft and for
Semiconductors At the Frontier: Minimizing Costs Internationally-The New Economies of Scale Appendix: Extensions and Uses of Production and Cost Analysis Derivation of the Total Variable Cost Curve from the Total Product Curve Input Substitution in Production to Minimize Costs Example 8-8: Elasticity of Substitution in Japanese Manufacturing
Industries Input Prices and the Firm's Cost Curves CHAPTER 9 PRICE AND OUTPUT UNDER PERFECT COMPETITION 9.1 Market Structure: Perfect Competition: Example 9-1: Competition in the New York Stock Market 9.2 Price Determination in the Market Period: 9.3 Short-Run Equilibrium of the Firm: Total Approach: Maximizing the Positive
Difference Between Total Revenue and Total Costs Marginal Approach: Equating Marginal Revenue and Marginal Cost Profit Maximization or Loss Minimization? 9.4 Short-Run Supply Curve and Equilibrium: Short-Run Supply Curve of the Firm and the Industry Example 9-2: Supply Curve of Petroleum from Tar Sands Example 9-3: Short-Run World
Supply Curve of Copper Short-Run Equilibrium of the Industry and the Firm 9.5 Long-Run Equilibrium of the Firm and the Industry: Long-Run Equilibrium of the Firm Long-Run Equilibrium of the Industry and the Firm Efficiency Implications of Perfect Competition Example 9-4: Long-Run Adjustment in the U.S. Cotton Textile Industry 9.6 Constant-,
Increasing-, and Decreasing-Cost Industries: Constant-Cost Industries Increasing-Cost Industries Decreasing-Cost Industries 9.7 International Competition in the Domestic Economy: 9.8 Analysis of Competitive Markets: Producer Surplus Consumers' and Producers' Surplus, and the Efficiency of Perfect Competition Welfare Effects of an Excise Tax
Effects of an Import Tariff At the Frontier (1): New Markets and New Competition on the Internet At the Frontier (2): Auctioning Airwaves Appendix: The Foreign-Exchange Market and the Dollar Exchange Rate PART FOUR: IMPERFECTLY COMPETITIVE MARKETS CHAPTER 10 PRICE AND OUTPUT UNDER PURE MONOPOLY 10.1 Pure Monopoly-
The Opposite Extreme from Perfect Competition: Definition and Sources of Monopoly Example 10-1: Barriers to Entry and Monopoly by Alcoa The Monopolist Faces the Market Demand Curve for the Commodity Example 10-2: De Beers Abandons Its Diamond Monopoly 10.2 Short-Run Equilibrium Price and Output: Total Approach: Maximizing the
Positive Difference Between Total Revenue and Total Costs Marginal Approach: Equating Marginal Revenue and Marginal Cost Profit Maximization or Loss Minimization? Short-Run Marginal Cost and Supply 10.3 Long-Run Equilibrium and Price and Output: Profit Maximization in the Long Run Example 10-3: Monopoly Profits in the New York City
Taxi Industry Comparison with Perfect Competition: The Social Cost of Monopoly Example 10-4: Estimates of the Social Cost of Monopoly in the United States 10.4 Profit Maximization by the Multiplant Monopolist: Short-Run Equilibrium Long-Run Equilibrium 10.5 Price Discrimination-A Monopolist's Method of Increasing Profits: Changing Different
Prices for Different Quantities Example 10-5: First-Degree Price Discrimination in Undergraduate Financial Aid at American Colleges Changing Different Prices in Different Markets Example 10-6: Price Discrimination by Con Edison 10.6 International Price Discrimination and Dumping: Example 10-7: Kodak Antidumping Victory over Fuji-But Kodak
Still Faces Competitive Problems 10.7 Two-Part Tariffs, Tying, and Bundling: Two-Part Tariffs Tying and Bundling Example 10-8: Bundling in the Leasing of Movies 10.8 Analysis of Monopoly Markets: Per-Unit Tax: Perfect Competition and Monopoly compared Price Discrimination and the Existence of the Industry Do Monopolists Suppress
Inventions? At the Frontier: Near-Monopoly Lands Microsoft in the Courts CHAPTER 11 PRICE AND OUTPUT UNDER MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION AND OLIGOPOLY 11.1 Monopolistic Competition: Many Sellers of a Differentiated Product: 11.2 Monopolistic Competition: Short-Run and Long-Run Analysis: Price and Output Decisions Under
Monopolistic Competition Product Variation and Selling Expenses Example 11-1: Advertisers Are Taking on Competitors by Name and Are Being Sued How Useful Is the Theory of Monopolistic Competition? 11.3 Oligopoly: Interdependence Among the Few Producers in the Industry: Example 11-2: Industrial Concentration in the United States 11.4
The Cournot and the Kinked-Demand Curve Models: The Cournot Model: Interdependence Not Recognized The Kinked-Demand Curve Model: Interdependence Recognized 11.5 Collusion: Cartels and Price Leadership Models: A Centralized Cartel Operates as a Monopolist Example 11-3: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Cartel Market-Sharing Cartel Example 11-4: The Market-Sharing Ivy League Cartel and Financial-Aid Leveraging Price Leadership 11.6 Long-Run Adjustments and Efficiency Implications of Oligopoly: Long-Run Adjustments in Oligopoly Nonprice Competition Among Oligopolists Welfare Effects of Oligopoly Example 11-5: Firm Size and Profitability
11.7 Other Oligopolistic Pricing Practices: Limit Pricing as a Barrier to Entry Cost-Plus Pricing: A Common Shortcut Pricing Practice At the Frontier: The Art of Devising Airfares 11.8 The March of Global Oligopolists: Example 11-6: Globalization of the Automobile Industry Example 11-7: Rising Competition in Global Banking Example 11-8:
Globalization of the Pharmaceutical Industry Appendix: The Cournot and Stackelberg Models The Cournot Model-An Extended Treatment The Stackelberg Model CHAPTER 12 GAME THEORY AND OLIGOPOLISTIC BEHAVIOR 12.1 Game Theory: Definition, Objectives, and Usefulness: Example 12.1: Military Strategy and Strategic Business Decisions
12.2 Dominant Strategy and Nash Equilibrium: Dominant Strategy Nash Equilibrium Example 12-2: Dell Computers and Nash Equilibrium 12.3 The Prisoners' Dilemma, Price and Nonprice Competition, and Cartel Cheating: The Prisoners' Dilemma: Definition and Importance Price and nonprice Competition, Cartel Cheating, and the Prisoners'
Dilemma Example 12-3: The Airlines' Fare War and the Prisoners' Dilemma 12.4 Repeated Games and Tit-for-Tat Strategy: 12.5 Strategic Moves: Threats, Commitments, and Credibility Entry Deterrence Example 12-4: Wal-Mart's Preemptive Expansion Marketing Strategy 12.6 Strategic Moves and International Competitiveness: Example 12-5:
Strategic Moves and Countermoves by Airbus and Boeing Example 12-6: Companies' Strategic Mistakes and Failures At the Frontier: The Virtual Corporation CHAPTER 13 MARKET STRUCTURE, EFFICIENCY, AND REGULATION 13.1 Market Structure and Efficiency: 13.2 Measuring Monopoly Power: The Lerner Index as a Measure of Monopoly
Power Concentration and Monopoly Power: The Herfindahl Index Contestable Markets: Effective Competition Even with Few Firms At the Frontier: Functioning of Markets and Experimental Economics 13.3 Social Costs and Dynamic Benefits of Monopoly Power: 13.4 Controlling Monopoly Power: Antitrust Policy: Example 13-1: Antitrust Policy in
Action-The Breakup of AT&T and the Creation of Competition in Long-Distance Telephone Service Example 13-2: Regulation and the Price of International Telephone Calls in Europe 13.5 Public-Utility Regulation: Public Utilities as Natural Monopolies Difficulties in Public-Utility Regulation Example 13-3: Regulated Electricity Rates for Con Edison
13.6 The Deregulation Movement: Example 13-4: Deregulation of the Airline Industry: An Assessment Example 13-5: Antitrust and the new Merger Boom 13.7 Regulating International Competition: Voluntary Export Restraints: Example 13-6: Voluntary Restraints on Export of Japanese Automobiles to the United States 13.8 Some Applications of
Market Structure, Efficiency, and Regulation: Regulating Monopoly Price Regulation and Peak-Load Pricing Regulation and Transfer Pricing PART FIVE PRICING AND EMPLOYMENT OF INPUTS CHAPTER 14 INPUT PRICE AND EMPLOYMENT UNDER PERFECT COMPETITION 14.1 Profit Maximization and Optimal Input Employment: 14.2 The
Demand Curve of a Firm for an Input: The Demand Curve of a Firm for One Variable Input The Demand Curve of a Firm for One of Several Variable Inputs 14.3 The Market Demand Curve for an Input and Its Elasticity: The Market Demand Curve for an Input Example 14-1: The Increase in the demand for Temporary Workers Determinants of the Price
Elasticity of Demand for an Input Example 14-2: Price Elasticity of Demand for Inputs in Manufacturing Industries 14.4 The Supply Curve of an Input: The Supply of Labor by an Individual Example 14-3: Leisure Time in the United States over the Past Century Substitution and Income Effects of a Wage Increase Example 14-4: Labor Force
Participation Rates The Market Supply Curve for an Input Example 14-5: Backward-Bending Supply Curve of Physicians' Services and Other Labor 14.5 Pricing and Employment of an Input: Example 14-6: Labor Productivity and Total Compensation in the United States and Abroad 14.6 Input Price Equalization Among Industries, Regions, and
Countries: Input Price Equalization Among Industries and Regions of a Country Input Price Equalization Among Countries Example 14-7: Convergence in Hourly Compensation in the Leading Industrial Countries 14.7 Economic Rent: An Unnecessary Payment to Bring Forth the Supply of an Input: 14.8 Analysis of Labor Markets Under Perfect
Competition: Substitution and Income Effects of a Wage Rate Change Overtime Pay and the Supply of Labor Services Example 14-8: Higher Tax Rates Reduce Hours of Work and Wage Differentials Effect of Minimum Wages At the Frontier: Do Minimum Wages Really Reduce Employment?

CHAPTER 15 INPUT PRICE AND EMPLOYMENT UNDER IMPERFECT COMPETITION 15.1 Profit Maximization and Optimal Input Employment: 15.2 The Demand Curve of a Firm for an Input: The Demand Curve of a Firm for One Variable Input The Demand Curve of a Firm for One of Several Variable Inputs 15.3 The Market Demand Curve and
Input Price and Employment: Example 15-1: The Dynamics of the Engineers Shortage 15.4 Monopsony: A Single Firm Hiring an Input: Example 15-2: Occupational Licensing, Mobility, and Imperfect Labor Markets 15.5 Monopsony Pricing and Employment of One Variable Input: Example 15-3: Monopsonistic Exploitation in Major League Baseball
15.6 Monopsony Pricing and Employment of Several Variable Inputs: Example 15-4: Imperfect Competition in Labor markets and the Pay of the Top Executives 15.7 International Migration and the Brain Drain: Example 15-5: British and Russian Brain Drain Is U.S. Brain Gain Example 15-6: The Debate Over U.S. Immigration Policy 15.8 Analysis of
Imperfect Input Markets: Regulation of Monopsony Bilateral Monopoly: A Monopsonistic Buyer Facing a Monopolistic Seller Effect of Labor Unions on Wages Economics of Discrimination in Employment At the Frontier: Discrimination, and Gender and Race Wage Differentials CHAPTER 16 FINANCIAL MICROECONOMICS: INTEREST,
INVESTMENT, AND THE COST OF CAPITAL 16.1 Lending-Borrowing Equilibrium: Lending Borrowing The Market Rate of Interest with Borrowing and Lending Example 16-1: Personal Savings in the United States 16.2 Saving-Investment Equilibrium: Saving-Investment Equilibrium Without Borrowing and Lending Saving-Investment Equilibrium with
Borrowing and Lending The Market Rate of Interest with Saving and Investment, Borrowing and Lending Example 16-2: Personal and Business Savings and Gross and Net Private Domestic Investment in the United States 16.3 Investment Decisions: Net Present Value Rule for Investment Decisions: The Two-Period Case Net Present Value Rule for
Investment Decisions: The Multiperiod Case Example 16-3: Fields of Education and Higher Lifetime Earnings in the United States 16.4 Determinants of the Market Rates of Interest: Example 16-4: Nominal and Real Interest Rates in the United States: 1990-2006 Example 16-5: Investment Risks and Returns in the United States 16.5 The Cost of
Capital: Cost of Debt Cost of Equity Capital: The Risk-Free Rate Plus Premium Cost of Equity Capital: The Dividend Valuation Model Cost of Equity Capital: The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Weighted Cost of Capital At the Frontier: Derivatives: Useful but Dangerous 16.6 Effects of Foreign Investments on the Receiving Nation: Example 16-6:
Fluctuations in the Flow of Foreign Direct Investments to the United States 16.7 Some Applications of Financial Microeconomics: Investment in Human Capital Investment in Human Capital and Hours of Work Pricing of Exhaustible Resources Management of Nonexhaustible Resources PART SIX GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM, EFFICIENCY, AND PUBLIC
GOODS CHAPTER 17 GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM AND WELFARE ECONOMICS 17.1 Partial Versus General Equilibrium Analysis: Example 17-1: Effect of a Reduction in Demand for Domestically Produced Automobiles in the United States 17.2 General Equilibrium of Exchange and Production: General Equilibrium of Exchange General Equilibrium of
Production Derivation of the Production-Possibilities Frontier 17.3 General Equilibrium of Prodcution and Exchange and Pareto Optimality: Simultaneous General Equilibrium of Production and Exchange Marginal Conditions for Economic Efficiency and Pareto Optimality 17.4 Perfect Competition, Economic Efficiency, and Equity: Perfect Competition
and Economic Efficiency Efficiency and Equity Example 17-2: Watering Down Efficiency in the Pricing of Water 17.5 General Equilibrium of Production and Exchange with International Trade: Example 17-3: The Basics of the Gains from International Trade 17.6 Welfare Economics and Utility-Possibilities Frontiers: The Meaning of Welfare Economics
Example 17-4: "The Painful Prescription: Rationing Hospital Care" Utility-Possibilities Frontier Grand Utility-Possibilities Frontier Example 17-5: From Welfare to Work-The Success of Welfare Reform in the United States 17.7 Social Policy Criteria: Measuring Changes in Social Welfare Arrow's Impossibility Theorem At the Frontier: The Hot Issue of
Income Inequality in the United States 17.8 Trade Protection and Economic Welfare: Example 17-6: Welfare Effects of Removing U.S. Trade Restrictions CHAPTER 18 EXTERNALITIES, PUBLIC GOODS, AND THE ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT 18.1 Externalities: Externalities Defined Externalities and Market Failure Example 18-1: The Case for
Government Support for Basic Research 18.2 Externalities and Property Rights: Example 18-2: Commercial Fishing: Fewer Boats but Exclusive Rights? 18.3 Public Goods: Nature of Public Goods Example 18-3: The Economics of a Lighthouse and Other Public Goods Provision of Public Goods At the Frontier: Efficiency Versus Equity in the U.S. Tax
System 18.4 Benefit-Cost Analysis: Example 18-4: Benefit-Cost Analysis and the SST 18.5 The Theory of Public Choice: Meaning and Importance of Public-Choice Theory The Public-Choice Process Policy Implications of the Public Choice Theory 18.6 Strategic Trade Policy: Example 18-5: Strategic Trade and Industrial Policies in the United States 18.7
Government Control and Regulation of Environmental Pollution: Environmental Pollution Optimal Pollution Control Direct Regulation and Effluent Fees for Optimal Pollution Control Example 18-6: The Market for Dumping Rights Example 18-7: Congestion Pricing CHAPTER 19 THE ECONOMICS OF INFORMATION 19.1 The Economics of Search:
Search Costs Searching for the Lowest Price Search and Advertising Example 19-1: No-Haggling Value Pricing in Car Buying At the Frontier: The Internet and the Information Revolution 19.2 Asymmetric Information: The Market for Lemons and Adverse Selection: Asymmetric Information and the Market for Lemons The Insurance Market and
Adverse Selection 19.3 Market Signaling: 19.4 The Problem of Moral Hazard: Example 19-2: Increased Disability Payments Reduce Labor Force Participation Example 19-3: Medicare and Medicaid and Moral Hazard 19.5 The Principal-Agent Problem: Example 19-4: Do Golden Parachutes Reward Failure? 19.6 The Efficiency Wage Theory: Example
19-5: The Efficiency Wage at Ford Appendix A: Mathematical Appendix Appendix B: Answers to Selected Problems Appendix C: Glossary Academia.edu uses cookies to personalize content, tailor ads and improve the user experience. By using our site, you agree to our collection of information through the use of cookies.

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