Dean Karlan,
Yale University Jonathan Morduch,
New York University
ISBN: 0073511498 Copyright year: 2014
Table of Contents
PART 1 The Power of Economics
Chapter 1: Economics and Life
Chapter 2: Specialization and Exchange
PART 2 Supply and Demand
Chapter 3: Markets
Chapter 4: Elasticity
Chapter 5: Efficiency
Chapter 6: Government Intervention
PART 3 Individual Decisions
Chapter 7: Consumer Behavior
Chapter 8: Behavioral Economics: A Closer Look at Decision Making
Chapter 9: Game Theory and Strategic Thinking
Chapter 10: Information
Chapter 11: Time and Uncertainty
PART 4 Firm Decisions
Chapter 12: The Costs of Production
Chapter 13: Perfect Competition
Chapter 14: Monopoly
Chapter 15: Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
Chapter 16: The Factors of Production
Chapter 17: International Trade
PART 5 Public Economics
Chapter 18: Externalities
Chapter 19: Public Goods and Common Resources
Chapter 20: Taxation and the Public Budget
Chapter 21: Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination
Chapter 22: Political Choices
Chapter 23: Public Policy and Choice Architecture
PART 6 The Data of Macroeconomics
Chapter 24: Measuring the Wealth of Nations
Chapter 25: The Cost of Living
PART 7 Economic Growth and Unemployment
Chapter 26: Economic Growth
Chapter 27: Unemployment and the Demand for Labor
PART 8 The Economy in the Short Run
Chapter 28: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
Chapter 29: Fiscal Policy
PART 9 The Financial System and Institutions
Chapter 30: The Basics of Finance
Chapter 31: Money and the Monetary System
Chapter 32: Inflation
Chapter 33: Financial Crisis
PART 10 International Policy Issues
Chapter 34: Open-Market Macroeconomics
Chapter 35: Development Economics