Applied microeconomics : an intermediate text / Jonas Prager.

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Chapter one What is microeconomics all about? -- Chapter two Basic demand and supply -- Chapter three Consumer choice: often consumers really do buy smart -- Chapter four Consumer demand: we want what we want when we want it -- Chapter five All you ever wanted to know about elasticity and perhaps more -- Chapter six Production theory: building a better mousetrap -- Chapter seven Production costs: building a better and cheaper mousetrap -- Chapter eight The perfectly competitive markets: short-run analysis -- Chapter nine The perfectly competitive firm in the long run -- Chapter ten When the perfectly competitive market fails: externalities and public goods -- Chapter eleven Monopoly is more than a board game -- Chapter twelve Controlling monopoly -- Chapter thirteen Oligopoly: a great name for a contemporary board game -- Chapter fourteen Controlling oligopoly: assuring the game's integrity -- Chapter fifteen Monopolistic competition is neither monopoly nor competition -- Chapter sixteen Wages in perfectly competitive labor markets -- Chapter seventeen Wages in imperfectly competitive markets -- Chapter eighteen Rent, interest, and profits -- Chapter nineteen General equilibrium and economic welfare -- Chapter twenty Epilogue: testing your skills as a microeconomist

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