Microeconomics / David N. Hyman.

Includes index.

Chapter one Economics: What It’s All About -- Chapter two Production Possibilities and Opportunity Cost -- Chapter three Market Transactions: Basic Supply and Demand Analysis -- Chapter four Using Supply and Demand Analysis -- Chapter five The Price System: Free Markets and the Economy -- Chapter six Elasticity of Supply and Demand -- Chapter seven Consumer Choice and the Theory of Demand -- Chapter eight The Business Firm: A prologue to the Theory of Market Supply -- Chapter nine Production and Cost -- Chapter ten The Profit- Maximizing Competitive firm and Market Supply -- Chapter eleven Long-Run Supply in Competitive Markets -- Chapter twelve Monopoly -- Chapter thirteen Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly -- Chapter fourteen Antitrust Policy and Regulation of Markets -- Chapter fifteen Market Failure and the Role of Government in Allocating Resources -- Chapter sixteen Externalities and the environment : Policy Analysis -- Chapter seventeen The Economics of Special-Interest Groups: Subsiding Agriculture and Industries -- Chapter eighteen Public Choice, Government Spending, and taxes -- Chapter nineteen Input Markets and the Demand for Resources -- Chapter twenty Labor Markets -- Chapter twenty one Imperfectly Competitive Input Markets: Labor Unions, Monopsony, and Bilateral Monopoly -- Chapter twenty two Interest, Rents, and Profit -- Chapter twenty three The Distribution of Income and the Economics of Poverty -- Chapter twenty four International Trade and Economic Development -- Chapter twenty five The Economics of Foreign Exchange and the Balance of International Trade

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