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Steve Slavins lively and comprehensive Microeconomics student-friendly, step-by-step approach, coupled with its low price and built-in Workbook/Study Guide is very attractive to adopters. Instructors and students like the authors humorous anecdotes, direct language, and easy conversational style. The text encourages active rather than passive reading.
Table of Contents
1 A BRIEF ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
2 RESOURCE UTILIZATION
APPENDIX: THE LAW OF INCREASING COSTS
3 SUPPLY AND DEMAND
4 THE MIXED ECONOMY
5 DEMAND, SUPPLY, AND EQUILIBRIUM
6 THE ELASTICITIES OF DEMAND AND SUPPLY
7 THE THEORY OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR
8 COST
9 PROFIT MAXIMIZATION
10 PERFECT COMPETITION
11 MONOPOLY
12 MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION
13 OLIGOPOLY
APPENDIX: THE FOUR TYPES OF COMPETITION: A REVIEW
14 CORPORATE MERGERS AND ANTITRUST
15 DEMAND IN THE FACTOR MARKET
16 LABOR UNIONS
17 LABOR MARKETS AND WAGE RATES
18 RENT, INTEREST, AND PROFIT
19 INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND POVERTY
20 INTERNATIONAL TRADE
21 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE