Includes Index

PART 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS AND THE ECONOMY
Chapter 1: The nature and method of economics
Chapter 2: The Economizing Problem
Chapter 3: Understanding Individual Markets: Demand and Supply
Chapter 4: Pure Capitalism and the Market System
Chapter 5: The Mixed Economy: Private and Public Sector
Chapter 6: The United States in The Global Economy

PART 2: NATIONAL INCOME, EMPLOYMENT AND FISCAL POLICY
Chapter 7: Measuring Domestic Output, National Income and the Price Level
Chapter 8: macroeconomic Instability: Unemployment and Inflation
Chapter 9: Building the Aggregate Expenditures Model
Chapter 10: Aggregate Expenditures: The Multiplier, Net Exports and Government
Chapter 11: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
Chapter 12: Fiscal Policy

PART 3: MONEY, BANKING AND MONETARY POLICY
Chapter 13: Money and Banking
Chapter 14: How Banks and Thrifts Create Money
Chapter 15: The Federal Reserve Banks and Monetary Policy

PART 4: PROBLEMS AND CONTROVERSIES IN MACROECONOMICS
Chapter 16: Alternative Views on Macro Theory and Policy
Chapter 17: The Inflation and Unemployment Relationship
Chapter 18: Budget Deficits and the Public Debt
Chapter 19: Economic Growth

PART 5: MICROECONOMICS OF PRODUCT MARKETS
Chapter 20: Demand and Supply: Elasticities and Applications
Chapter 21: Consumer Behavior and Utility Maximization
Chapter 22: The Costs of Production
Chapter 23: Price and Output Determination: Pure Competition Chapter 24: Price and Output Determination Pure Monopoly Chapter 25: Price and Output Determination: Monopolistic Competiiton
Chapter 26: Price and Output Determination: Oligopoly

PART 6: MICROECONOMICS OF RESOURCE MARKETS
Chapter 27: Production and the Demand for Resources
Chapter 28: The Pricing and Employment of Resources: Wages Determination
Chapter 29: The Pricing and Employment of Resources: Rent, Interest and Profits

PART 7: GOVERNMENT AND CURRENT ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
Chapter 30:Government and Market Failure: Public Goods, the Environment, and Information Problems
Chapter 31: Public Choice Theory and Taxation
Chapter 32: Antitrust, Regulation and Industrial Policy
Chapter 33: Agriculture: Economic and Policy
Chapter 34: Income, Inequality and Poverty
Chapter 35: The Economics of Health Care
Chapter 36: Labor - Market Issues: Unionism, Discrimination and Immigration

PART 8: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND THE WORLD ECONOMY
Chapter 37: International Economics Trade
Chapter 38: Exchange Rates, Balance of Payments and Trade Deficits
Chapter 39: Growth and the Less Developed Countries
Chapter 40: Russia: An Economy In Transtion