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Modern Principles: Microeconomics

Sixth  Edition|©2024  Tyler Cowen; Alex Tabarrok

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From the authors of the popular blog, The Marginal Revolution, Modern Principles of Microconomics focuses on modern content and modern delivery, teaching economics in a way that makes it more memorable for you.

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Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1 The Big Ideas
Chapter 2 The Power of Trade and Comparative Advantage
 
Part I Supply and Demand
Chapter 3 Supply and Demand
Chapter 4 Equilibrium
Chapter 5 Elasticity and Its Applications
Chapter 6 Taxes and Subsidies
 
Part II The Price System
Chapter 7 The Price System: Signals, Speculation, and Prediction
Chapter 8 Price Ceilings and Floors
Chapter 9 International Trade
Chapter 10 Externalities: When the Price is Not Right
 
Part III Firms and Factor Markets
Chapter 11 Costs and Profit Maximization Under Competition
Chapter 12 Competition and the Invisible Hand
Chapter 13 Monopoly
Chapter 14 Price Discrimination and Price Strategy
Chapter 15 Oligopoly and Game Theory
Chapter 16 Networks, Platforms, and the Economics of "Free Goods"
Chapter 17 Monopolistic Competition and Advertising
Chapter 18 Labor Markets

Part IV Government
Chapter 19 Public Goods and the Tragedy of the Commons
Chapter 20 Political Economy and Public Choice
Chapter 21 Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy
 
Part V Decision Making for Businesses, Investors, and Consumers
Chapter 22 Managing Incentives
Chapter 23 Stock Markets and Personal Finance
Chapter 24 Asymmetric Information: Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection
Chapter 25 Consumer Choice

Authors

Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen is Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University. His latest book is Big Business. With Alex Tabarrok he co-writes the Marginal Revolution blog, often ranked as the #1 economics blog. He is also the author of Discover Your Inner Economist (Dutton, 2007) and numerous other books on economics. He writes regularly for the popular press on economics, including for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, and The Wilson Quarterly.  University web page: http://economics.gmu.edu/faculty/tcowen.html WATCH: Tyler Cowen at the Economic Bloggers Forum.


Alex Tabarrok

Alex Tabarrok is Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Tabarrok is co-author with Tyler Cowen of the popular economics blog, Marginal Revolution. His recent research looks at bounty hunters, judicial incentives and elections, crime control, patent reform, methods to increase the supply of human organs for transplant, and the regulation of pharmaceuticals. He is the editor of the books, Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science; The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society; and Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and The Control of Crime. His papers have appeared in the Journal of Law and Economics, Public Choice, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, The American Law and Economics Review, Kyklos and many other journals. His popular articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other magazines and newspapers.


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From the authors of the popular blog, The Marginal Revolution, Modern Principles of Microconomics focuses on modern content and modern delivery, teaching economics in a way that makes it more memorable for you.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1 The Big Ideas
Chapter 2 The Power of Trade and Comparative Advantage
 
Part I Supply and Demand
Chapter 3 Supply and Demand
Chapter 4 Equilibrium
Chapter 5 Elasticity and Its Applications
Chapter 6 Taxes and Subsidies
 
Part II The Price System
Chapter 7 The Price System: Signals, Speculation, and Prediction
Chapter 8 Price Ceilings and Floors
Chapter 9 International Trade
Chapter 10 Externalities: When the Price is Not Right
 
Part III Firms and Factor Markets
Chapter 11 Costs and Profit Maximization Under Competition
Chapter 12 Competition and the Invisible Hand
Chapter 13 Monopoly
Chapter 14 Price Discrimination and Price Strategy
Chapter 15 Oligopoly and Game Theory
Chapter 16 Networks, Platforms, and the Economics of "Free Goods"
Chapter 17 Monopolistic Competition and Advertising
Chapter 18 Labor Markets

Part IV Government
Chapter 19 Public Goods and the Tragedy of the Commons
Chapter 20 Political Economy and Public Choice
Chapter 21 Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy
 
Part V Decision Making for Businesses, Investors, and Consumers
Chapter 22 Managing Incentives
Chapter 23 Stock Markets and Personal Finance
Chapter 24 Asymmetric Information: Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection
Chapter 25 Consumer Choice

Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen is Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University. His latest book is Big Business. With Alex Tabarrok he co-writes the Marginal Revolution blog, often ranked as the #1 economics blog. He is also the author of Discover Your Inner Economist (Dutton, 2007) and numerous other books on economics. He writes regularly for the popular press on economics, including for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, and The Wilson Quarterly.  University web page: http://economics.gmu.edu/faculty/tcowen.html WATCH: Tyler Cowen at the Economic Bloggers Forum.


Alex Tabarrok

Alex Tabarrok is Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Tabarrok is co-author with Tyler Cowen of the popular economics blog, Marginal Revolution. His recent research looks at bounty hunters, judicial incentives and elections, crime control, patent reform, methods to increase the supply of human organs for transplant, and the regulation of pharmaceuticals. He is the editor of the books, Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science; The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society; and Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and The Control of Crime. His papers have appeared in the Journal of Law and Economics, Public Choice, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, The American Law and Economics Review, Kyklos and many other journals. His popular articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other magazines and newspapers.


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