TY - BOOK AU - Bradley R Schiller TI - The micro economy today SN - 9780072979640 AV - HB172.5 .Sc1 PY - 2006/// CY - Boston : PB - McGraw-Hill/Irwin KW - Microeconomics -- KW - Textbooks. Microeconomics N1 - Revised edition of: Microeconomy today. 9th ed. c2003. Card inserted to register login username and password for access to an instructional website with tutorials, exercises, and/or videos; pt. 1. Basic concepts -- Economics : the core issues -- Appendix : using graphs -- The U.S. economy : a global view -- Supply and demand -- The public sector -- pt. 2 Product markets : the basics -- The demand for goods -- Appendix : indifference curves -- The costs of production -- pt. 3 Market structure -- The competitive firm -- Competitive markets -- Monopoly -- Oligopoly -- Monopolistic competition -- pt. 4 Regulatory issues -- (De)regulation of business -- Environmental protection -- The farm problem -- pt. 5 Factor markets : basic theory -- The labor market -- Labor unions -- Financial markets -- pt. 6 Distributional issues -- Taxes : equity vs. efficiency -- Transfer payments : welfare and social security -- pt. 7 International economics -- International trade -- International finance -- ER -