Includes index.

Limits, alternatives, and choices -- The market system and the circular flow -- Demand, supply, and market equilibrium -- Elasticity -- Market failures : public goods and externalities -- Consumer behavior -- Businesses and the costs of production -- Pure competition in the short run -- Pure competition in the long run -- Pure monopoly -- Monopolistic competition and oligopoly -- Technology, r&d, and efficiency (web chapter) -- The demand for resources -- Wage determination -- Rent, interest, and profit -- Natural resource and energy economics -- Public finance: expenditures and taxes -- Asymmetric information, voting, and public choice -- Antitrust policy and regulation -- Agriculture : economics and policy -- Income inequality, poverty, and discrimination -- Health care -- Immigration -- An introduction to macroeconomics -- Measuring domestic output and national income -- Economic growth -- Business cycles, unemployment, and inflation -- Basic macroeconomic relationships -- The aggregate expenditures model -- Aggregate demand and aggregate supply -- Fiscal policy, deficits, and debt -- Money, banking, and financial institutions -- Money creation -- Interest rates and monetary policy -- Financial economics -- Extending the analysis of aggregate supply -- Current issues in macro theory and policy -- International trade -- The balance of payments, exchange rates, and trade deficits -- The economics of developing countries (web chapter).