Includes index.

Part 1. Economics : the science of scarcity

Chapter 1. What economics is about

Chapter 2. Production possibilities frontier framework

Chapter 3. Supply and demand : theory

Chapter 4. Prices : free, controlled, and relative

Chapter 5. Supply, demand, and price : applications

Part 2. Macroeconomics fundamentals

Chapter 6. Macroeconomic measurements, part I : prices and unemployment

Chapter 7. Macroeconomic measurements, part II : GDP and real GDP

Part 3. Macroeconomic stability, instability, and fiscal policy

Chapter 8. Aggregate demand and aggregate supply

Chapter 9. Classical macroeconomics and self-regulating economy

Chapter 10. Keynesian macroeconomics and economic instability : a critique of the self-regulating economy

Chapter 11. Fiscal policy and the federal budget

Part 4. Money, the economy, and monetary policy

Chapter 12. Money, banking, and the financial system

Chapter 13. The federal reserve system

Chapter 14. Money and the economy

Chapter 15. Monetary policy

Part 5. Expectations and growth

Chapter 16. Expectations theory and the economy

Chapter 17. Economic growth : resources, technology, ideas, and institutions

Part 6. The financial crisis of 2007-2009

Chapter 18. The financial crisis of 2007-2009

Part 7. Government and the economy

Chapter 19. Debates in macroeconomics over the role and effects of government

Part 8. Microeconomics fundamentals

Chapter 20. Elasticity

Chapter 21. Consumer choice : maximizing utility and behavioral economics

Chapter 22. Production and costs

Part 9. Product markets and policies

Chapter 23. Perfect competition

Chapter 24. Monopoly

Chapter 25. Monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and game theory

Chapter 26. Government and product markets : antitrust and regulation

Part 10. Factor markets and related issues

Chapter 27. Factor markets : with emphasis on the labor market

Chapter 28. Wages, unions, and labor

Chapter 29. The distribution of income and poverty

Chapter 30. Interest, rent, and profit

Part 11. Market failure, public choice, and special-interest group politics

Chapter 31. Market failure : externalities, public goods, and asymmetric information

Chapter 32. Public choice and special-interest group politics

Part 12. Economics theory-building and everyday life

Chapter 33. Building theories to explain everyday life : from observations to questions to theories to predictions

Part 13. International economics and globalization

Chapter 34. International trade

Chapter 35. International finance

Chapter 36. Globalization and international impacts on the economy

Chapter 37. The economic case for and against government : five topics considered

Chapter 38. Stocks, bonds, futures, and options

Chapter 39. Agriculture : problems, policies, and unintended effects