TY - BOOK AU - Michael Parkin AU - Jill Herndon ED - Mark Rush; TI - Microeconomics SN - 9780321112071 AV - HB172 .P24 PY - 2003///. CY - Boston, MA ; México City : PB - Addison Wesley, N1 - CD-ROM contains the Student study guide by Mark Rush and the Personal tutor by Mark Rush and Jill Herndon. Book includes access code to the Economics Place Web site, which gives online access to the complete textbook, the Study guide, and Economics in action software tutorial. Includes index; . INTRODUCTION. 1. What Is Economics? 2. The Economic Problem. II. HOW MARKETS WORK. 3. Demand and Supply. 4. Elasticity. 5. Efficiency and Equity. 6. Markets in Action. III. HOUSEHOLDS' CHOICES. 7. Utility and Demand. 8. Possibilities, Preferences, and Choices. IV. FIRMS AND MARKETS. 9. Organizing Production. 10. Output and Costs. 11. Perfect Competition. 12. Monopoly. 13. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly. V. FACTOR MARKETS. 14. Demand and Supply in Factor Markets. 15. Economic Inequality. VI. MARKET FAILURE AND GOVERNMENT. 16. Public Goods and Taxes. 17. Regulation and Antitrust Law. 18. Externalities. VII. THE GLOBAL ECONOMY. 19. Trading with the World. 20. Global Stock Markets ER -