Economics : Principles, Problems, and Policies - Text Only - 16th edition

Preliminary Table of Contents
Part One: An Introduction to Economics and the Economy

1 The Nature and Method of Economics
2 The Economizing Problem
3 Individual Markets: Demand and Supply
3Web Applications and Extension of Supply and Demand Analysis [Internet only chapter]
4 The Market System
5 The U.S. Economy: Private and Public Sectors
6 The United States in the Global Economy

Part Two: Macroeconomic Measurement and Basic Concepts

7 Measuring Domestic Output and National Income
8 Introduction to Economic Growth and Instability
9 Basic Macroeconomic Relationships

Part Three: Macroeconomic Models and Fiscal Policy

10 The Aggregate Expenditures Model
11 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
12 Fiscal Policy

Part Four: Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy

13 Money and Banking
14 How Banks and Thrifts Create Money
15 Monetary Policy

Part Five: Long-Run Perspectives and Macroeconomic Debates

16 Extending the Analysis of Aggregate Supply
17 Economic Growth
18 Deficits, Surpluses, and the Public Debt
19 Disputes over Macro Theory and Policy

Part Six: Microeconomics of Product Markets

20 Elasticity of Demand and Supply
21 Consumer Behavior and Utility Maximization
22 The Costs of Production
23 Pure Competition
24 Pure Monopoly
25 Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
26 Technology, R&D, and Efficiency

Part Seven: Microeconomics of Resource Markets

27 The Demand for Resources
28 Wage Determination
29 Rent, Interest, and Profit

Part Eight: Microeconomics of Government

30 Government and Market Failure
31 Public Choice Theory and the Economics of Taxation

Part Nine: Microeconomic Issues and Policies

32 Antitrust Policy and Regulation
33 Agriculture: Economics and Policy
34 Income Inequality and Poverty
35 Labor Market Institutions and Issues: Unionism, Discrimination, Immigration
36 Labor Market institutions and Issues

Part Ten: International Economics and the World Economy

37 International Trade
38 Exchange Rates, the Balance of Payments, and Trade Deficits
39Web The Economics of Developing Countries [Internet only chapter]
40Web Transition Economies: Russia and China [Internet only chapter]