Microeconomics : principles, problems, and policies / Campbell R. McConnell, Stanley L. Brue.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter one The Nature and Method of Economics -- Chapter two The Economizing Problem -- Chapter three Individual Markets: Demand and Supply -- Chapter four The Market System -- Chapter five The U.S. Economy: Private and Public Sectors -- Chapter six The United States in the Global Economy -- Chapter seven Supply and Demand: Elasticity and Government-Set Prices -- Chapter eight Consumer Behavior and Utility Maximization -- Chapter nine The Costs of Production -- Chapter ten Pure Competition -- Chapter eleven Pure Monopoly -- Chapter twelve Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly -- Chapter thirteen Technology, R&D and Efficiency -- Chapter fourteen The Demand for Resources -- Chapter fifteen Wage Determination -- Chapter sixteen Rent, Interest and Profit -- Chapter seventeen Government and Market Failure -- Chapter eighteen Public Choice Theory and the Economics of Taxation -- Chapter nineteen Antitrust Policy and Regulation -- Chapter twenty Agriculture: Economics and Policy -- Chapter twenty-one Income Inequality and Poverty -- Chapter twenty-two Labor Market Issues: Unionism, Discrimination, Immigration -- Chapter twenty-three The Economics of Health Care -- Chapter twenty-four International Trade -- Chapter twenty-five Exchange Rate, The Balance of Payments and Trade Deficits

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