Loose-Leaf Microeconomics

Overview

Main description

Steve Slavin’s lively and comprehensive Microeconomics has a student-friendly, step-by-step approach; value pricing; and a built-in Workbook/Study Guide. Instructors and students like the author’s humorous anecdotes, direct language, patient step-by-step treatment of math, and easy conversational style. The text encourages active rather than passive reading.

Table of contents

1. A Brief Economic History of the United States2. Resource Utilization3. The Mixed Economy4. Supply and Demand5. Demand, Supply and Equilibrium6. The Price Elasticities of Demand and Supply7. Theory of Consumer Behavior8. Cost9. Profit, Loss, and Perfect Competition10. Monopoly11. Monopolistic Competition12. Oligopoly13. Corporate Mergers and Antitrust14. Demand in the Factor Market15. Labor Unions16. Labor Markets and Wage Rates17. Rent, Interest, and Profit18. Income Distribution and Poverty19. International Trade20. International Finance