AP_Krugman_Textbook

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  • Section

  • Finance The Open Economy: International Trade and

  • Module 41 Capital Flows and the Balance of Payments

  • Module 42 The Foreign Exchange Market

  • Module 43 Exchange Rate Policy

  • Module 44 Exchange Rates and Macroeconomic Policy

  • Module 45 Putting it All Together

  • Section Microeconomics

  • Behind the Demand Curve: Consumer Choice

    • and Elasticity Module 46 Income Effects, Substitution Effects,



  • Module 47 Interpreting Price Elasticity of Demand

  • Module 48 Other Elasticities

  • Module 49 Consumer and Producer Surplus

  • Module 50 Efficiency and Deadweight Loss

  • Module 51 Utility Maximization

  • Section

  • and Costs Behind the Supply Curve: Profit, Production,

  • Module 52 Defining Profit

  • Module 53 Profit Maximization

  • Module 54 The Production Function

  • Module 55 Firm Costs

  • Module 56 Long-Run Costs and Economies of Scale

  • Module 57 Introduction to Market Structure

  • Section

  • and Monopoly Market Structures: Perfect Competition

  • Module 58 Introduction to Perfect Competition

  • Module 59 Graphing Perfect Competition

  • Module 60 Long-Run Outcomes in Perfect Competition

    • Module 61 Introduction to Monopoly BRIEF CONTENTS ix

    • Module 62 Monopoly and Public Policy

    • Module 63 Price Discrimination

    • Section

    • Market Structures: Imperfect Competition

    • Module 64 Introduction to Oligopoly

    • Module 65 Game Theory

    • Module 66 Oligopoly in Practice

    • Module 67 Introduction to Monopolistic Competition

    • Module 68 Product Differentiation and Advertising

    • Section

    • Factor Markets

    • Module 69 Introduction and Factor Demand

    • Module 70 The Markets for Land and Capital

    • Module 71 The Market for Labor

    • Module 72 The Cost-Minimizing Input Combination

    • Module 73 Theories of Income Distribution

    • Section

    • Market Failure and the Role of Government

    • Module 74 Introduction to Externalities

    • Module 75 Externalities and Public Policy

    • Module 76 Public Goods

    • Module 77 Public Policy to Promote Competition

    • Module 78 Income Inequality and Income Distribution

    • AppendixEnrichment Modules

    • Module 79 The Economics of Information

    • Module 80 Indifference Curves and Consumer Choice

    • Solutions to AP Review Questions S-

    • Glossary G-

    • Index I-

    • Section

    • Basic Economic Concepts

    • Module 1The Study of Economics



  • Individual Choice: The Core of Economics

    • Resources Are Scarce

    • What You Must Give Up to Get It



  • FYI:Got a Penny?

  • Microeconomics Versus Macroeconomics

  • Positive Versus Normative Economics

    • When and Why Economists Disagree



  • FYI:When Economists Agree

  • Module 1 AP Review

    • Module 2 Introduction to Macreconomics

    • The Business Cycle

    • FYI:Defining Recessions and Expansions

      • Employment, Unemployment, and the Business Cycle

      • Aggregate Output and the Business Cycle

      • Inflation, Deflation, and Price Stability



    • Economic Growth

      • The Use of Models in Economics



    • Module 2 AP Review

    • Module 3The Production Possibilities Curve Model

    • Trade-offs: The Production Possibilities Curve

      • Efficiency

      • Opportunity Cost

      • Economic Growth



    • Module 3 AP Review

    • Module 4Comparative Advantage and Trade

    • Gains from Trade

    • Comparative Advantage and Gains from Trade

    • FYI:Rich Nation, Poor Nation

      • Comparative Advantage and International Trade



    • Module 4 AP Review

    • Section 1 Review

    • AppendixGraphs in Economics

      • Section

      • Supply and Demand

        • Introduction and Demand Module 5Supply and Demand:



      • Supply and Demand: A Model of a Competitive Market

      • The Demand Curve

        • The Demand Schedule and the Demand Curve

        • Shifts of the Demand Curve

        • Understanding Shifts of the Demand Curve



      • FYI:Beating the Traffic

      • Module 5 AP Review

        • Supply and Equilibrium Module 6 Supply and Demand:



      • The Supply Curve

        • The Supply Schedule and the Supply Curve

        • Shifts of the Supply Curve

        • Understanding Shifts of the Supply Curve



      • FYI:Only Creatures Small and Pampered

      • Supply, Demand, and Equilibrium

        • Finding the Equilibrium Price and Quantity

        • Place at the Same Time? Why Do All Sales and Purchases in a Market Take

        • Equilibrium Price? Why Does the Market Price Fall If It Is Above the

        • Equilibrium Price? Why Does the Market Price Rise If It Is Below the

        • Using Equilibrium to Describe Markets



      • Module 6 AP Review

        • Changes in Equilibrium Module 7Supply and Demand:



      • Changes in Supply and Demand

        • What Happens When the Demand Curve Shifts

        • What Happens When the Supply Curve Shifts

        • Simultaneous Shifts of Supply and Demand Curves



      • FYI:The Great Tortilla Crisis

      • Module 7 AP Review

        • Price Controls (Ceilings and Floors) Module 8Supply and Demand:



      • Why Governments Control Prices

      • Price Ceilings

        • Modeling a Price Ceiling





    • So Why Are There Price Ceilings? Contents



  • Price Floors

  • FYI:Price Floors and School Lunches

    • How a Price Floor Causes Inefficiency

    • So Why Are There Price Floors?



  • Module 8 AP Review

  • Module 9Supply and Demand: Quality Controls

  • Controlling Quantities

    • The Anatomy of Quantity Controls

    • The Costs of Quantity Controls



  • FYI:The Clams of New Jersey

  • Module 9 AP Review

  • Section 2 Review

  • Section

  • Measurement of Economic Performance

    • Domestic Product Module 10The Circular Flow and Gross



  • The National Accounts

    • The Circular-Flow Diagram

    • Gross Domestic Product



  • Module 10 AP Review

    • Product Module 11Interpreting Real Gross Domestic



  • What GDP Tells Us

  • Real GDP: A Measure of Aggregate Output

  • FYI:Creating the National Accounts

    • Calculating Real GDP

    • What Real GDP Doesn’t Measure



  • FYI:Miracle in Venezuela?

  • Module 11 AP Review

    • Unemployment Module 12The Meaning and Calculation of



  • The Unemployment Rate

    • Defining and Measuring Unemployment

    • The Significance of the Unemployment Rate

    • Growth and Unemployment



  • FYI:Rocky Mountain Low

  • Module 12 AP Review

    • Unemployment Module 13The Causes and Categories of

    • The Natural Rate of Unemployment

      • Job Creation and Job Destruction

      • Frictional Unemployment

      • Structural Unemployment

      • The Natural Rate of Unemployment

      • Changes in the Natural Rate of Unemployment



    • FYI:Structural Unemployment in Eastern Germany

    • Module 13 AP Review

    • Module 14 Inflation: An Overview

    • Inflation and Deflation

      • The Level of Prices Doesn’t Matter

      • But the Rate of Change of Prices Does



    • FYI:Israel’s Experience with Inflation

      • Winners and Losers from Inflation

      • Inflation is Easy; Disinflation is Hard



    • Module 14 AP Review

      • of Inflation Module 15The Measurement and Calculation



    • Prices Indexes and the Aggregate Price Level

      • Market Baskets and Price Indexes

      • The Consumer Price Index

      • Other Price Measures



    • FYI:Indexing to the CPI

    • Module 15 AP Review

    • Section 3 Review

    • Section

    • National Income and Price Determination

    • Module 16Income and Expenditure

    • The Multiplier: An Informal Introduction

    • FYI:The Multiplier and the Great Depression

    • Consumer Spending

      • Current Disposable Income and Consumer Spending

      • Shifts of the Aggregate Consumption Function



    • Investment Spending

      • The Interest Rate and Investment Spending

      • Investment Spending Expected Future Real GDP, Production Capacity, and



    • Inventories and Unplanned Investment Spending



  • FYI:Interest Rates and the U.S. Housing Boom

  • Module 16 AP Review

    • Determinants Module 17Aggregate Demand: Introduction and



  • Aggregate Demand

    • Sloping? Why Is the Aggregate Demand Curve Downward

    • Shifts of the Aggregate Demand Curve



  • Module 17 AP Review

    • Determinants Module 18Aggregate Supply: Introduction and



  • Aggregate Supply

    • The Short-Run Aggregate Supply Curve

    • Shifts of the Short-Run Aggregate Supply Curve

    • The Long-Run Aggregate Supply Curve

    • From the Short Run to the Long Run



  • FYI:Prices and Output During the Great Depression

  • Module 18 AP Review

    • Demand—Aggregate Supply Model Module 19Equilibrium in the Aggregate



  • TheAD–ASModel

    • Short-Run Macroeconomic Equilibrium

    • Shifts of Aggregate Demand: Short-Run Effects

    • Shifts of the SRASCurve

    • Long-Run Macroeconomic Equilibrium



  • FYI:Supply Shocks Versus Demand Shocks in Practice

  • Module 19 AP Review

    • Demand—Aggregate Supply Model Module 20Economic Policy and the Aggregate



  • Macroeconomic Policy

    • Policy in the Face of Demand Shocks

    • Responding to Supply Shocks



  • FYI:Is Stabilization Policy Stabilizing?

  • Fiscal Policy: The Basics

    • Transfers, and Borrowing Taxes, Government Purchases of Goods and Services,

    • The Government Budget and Total Spending

    • Expansionary and Contractionary Fiscal Policy

    • A Cautionary Note: Lags in Fiscal Policy



  • Module 20 AP Review

    • Module 21Fiscal Policy and the Multiplier

    • Government Policy Using the Multiplier to Estimate the Influence of

      • Purchases of Goods and Services Multiplier Effects of an Increase in Government

      • Transfers and Taxes Multiplier Effects of Changes in Government

      • How Taxes Affect the Multiplier



    • FYI:About That Stimulus Package

    • Module 21 AP Review

    • Section 4 Review

    • Section

    • The Financial Sector

      • Financial System Module 22Saving, Investment, and the



    • Matching Up Savings and Investment Spending

      • The Savings–Investment Spending Identity



    • The Financial System

      • Three Tasks of a Financial System

      • Types of Financial Assets

      • Financial Intermediaries



    • Module 22 AP Review

    • Module 23Definition and Measurement of Money

    • The Meaning of Money

      • What Is Money?

      • Roles of Money

      • Types of Money



    • FYI:The History of the Dollar

      • Measuring the Money Supply



    • FYI:What’s with All the Currency?

    • Module 23 AP Review

    • Module 24The Time Value of Money

    • The Concept of Present Value

      • Borrowing, Lending, and Interest

      • Defining Present Value

      • Using Present Value



    • FYI:How Big Is That Jackpot, Anyway?

    • Module 24 AP Review

    • Module 25Banking and Money Creation

    • The Monetary Role of Banks

    • What Banks Do Contents

    • The Problem of Bank Runs



  • FYI:It’s a Wonderful Banking System

    • Bank Regulation



  • Determining the Money Supply

    • How Banks Create Money

    • Reserves, Bank Deposits, and the Money Multiplier

    • The Money Multiplier in Reality



  • Module 25 AP Review

    • History and Structure Module 26The Federal Reserve System—



  • The Federal Reserve System

  • Banking System An Overview of the Twenty-first Century American

    • Twentieth Century Crisis in American Banking at the Turn of the

    • of the Federal Reserve Responding to Banking Crises: The Creation of

    • The Structure of the Fed

    • The Effectiveness of the Federal Reserve System

    • The Savings and Loan Crisis of the 1980s

    • Back to the Future: The Financial Crisis of



  • Module 26 AP Review

    • Policy Module 27The Federal Reserve—Monetary



  • The Federal Reserve System

    • The Functions of the Federal Reserve System



  • What the Fed Does

    • The Reserve Requirement

    • The Discount Rate

    • Open-Market Operations



  • FYI:Who Gets the Interest on the Fed’s Assets?

  • Module 27 AP Review

  • Module 28The Money Market

  • The Demand for Money

    • The Opportunity Cost of Holding Money



  • FYI:Long-term Interest Rates

    • The Money Demand Curve

    • Shifts of the Money Demand Curve



  • Money and Interest Rates

    • The Equilibrium Interest Rate

    • Two Models of the Interest Rate



  • Module 28 AP Review

    • Module 29The Market for Loanable Funds

      • The Market for Loanable Funds



    • Reconciling the Two Interest Rate Models

      • The Interest Rate in the Short Run

      • The Interest Rate in the Long Run



    • Module 29 AP Review

    • Section 5 Review

    • Section

    • Policies Inflation, Unemployment, and Stabilization

      • Policy: Deficits and the Public Debt Module 30Long-run Implications of Fiscal



    • The Budget Balance

      • The Budget Balance as a Measure of Fiscal Policy

      • Balance The Business Cycle and the Cyclically Adjusted Budget

      • Should the Budget Be Balanced?



    • Long-Run Implications of Fiscal Policy

      • Deficits, Surpluses, and Debt

      • Problems Posed by Rising Government Debt

      • Deficits and Debt in Practice



    • FYI:What Happened to the Debt from World War II?

      • Implicit Liabilities



    • FYI:Argentina’s Creditors Take a Haircut

    • Module 30 AP Review

    • Module 31Monetary Policy and the Interest Rate

    • Monetary Policy and the Interest Rate

    • FYI:The Fed Reverses Course

    • Monetary Policy and Aggregate Demand

      • Expansionary and Contractionary Monetary Policy



    • Monetary Policy in Practice

      • Inflation Targeting



    • FYI:What the Fed Wants, the Fed Gets

    • Module 31 AP Review

      • Long Run Module 32Money, Output, and Prices in the



    • Money, Output, and Prices

      • the Money Supply Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of an Increase in

      • Monetary Neutrality

      • in the Long Run Changes in the Money Supply and the Interest Rate





  • FYI:International Evidence of Monetary Neutrality

  • Module 32 AP Review

    • Deflation Module 33Types of Inflation, Disinflation, and



  • Money and Inflation

    • The Classical Model of Money and Prices

    • The Inflation Tax

    • The Logic of Hyperinflation



  • FYI:Zimbabwe’s Inflation

  • Moderate Inflation and Disinflation

    • The Output Gap and the Unemployment Rate



  • Module 33 AP Review

    • The Phillips Curve Module 34Inflation and Unemployment:

    • The Short-Run Phillips Curve

    • Phillips Curve Inflation Expectations and the Short-Run



  • FYI:From the Scary Seventies to the Nifty Nineties

  • Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run

    • The Long-Run Phillips Curve

    • The Natural Rate of Unemployment, Revisited



  • FYI:The Great Disinflation of the 1980s

    • The Costs of Disinflation



  • Deflation

    • Debt Deflation

    • Effects of Expected Deflation



  • Module 34 AP Review

    • Macroeconomics Module 35History and Alternative Views of



  • Classical Macroeconomics

    • Money and Price Level

    • The Business Cycle



  • The Great Depression and the Keynesian Revolution

    • Keynes’s Theory

    • Policy to Fight Recessions



  • FYI:The End of the Great Depression

  • Challenges to Keynesian Economics

    • The Revival of the Monetary Policy

    • Monetarism

    • Inflation and the Natural Rate of Unemployment

    • The Political Business Cycle



  • Classical Macroeconomics Rational Expectations, Real Business Cycles, and New

    • Rational Expectations

    • Real Business Cycles

    • Module 35 AP Review

      • Consensus Module 36The Modern Macroeconomic



    • The Modern Consensus

      • Recessions? Is Expansionary Monetary Policy Helpful in Fighting

      • Recessions? Is Expansionary Fiscal Policy Effective in Fighting

      • Unemployment in the Long Run? Can Monetary and/or Fiscal Policy Reduce

      • Should Fiscal Policy Be Used in a Discretionary Way?

      • Way? Should Monetary Policy Be Used in a Discretionary



    • FYI:Supply-Side Economics

      • The Clean Little Secret of Macroeconomics



    • FYI:After the Bubble

    • Module 36 AP Review

    • Section 6 Review

    • Section

    • Economic Growth and Productivity

    • Module 37Long-run Economic Growth

    • Comparing Economies Across Time and Space

      • Real GDP per Capita



    • FYI:India Takes Off

      • Growth Rates



    • FYI:The Walmart Effects

    • The Sources of Long-run Growth

      • The Crucial Importance of Productivity

      • Explaining Growth in Productivity



    • Module 37 AP Review

    • Module 38Productivity and Growth

    • Function Accounting for Growth: The Aggregate Production

      • What About Natural Resources?



    • FYI:The Information Technology Paradox

    • Success, Disappointment, and Failure

      • East Asia’s Miracle

      • Latin America’s Disappointment

      • Africa’s Troubles



    • FYI:Are Economies Converging?

    • Module 38 AP Review

    • Growth Rates Differ Module 39Growth Policy: Why Economic



  • Why Growth Rates Differ

    • Capital, Technology, and Growth Differences



  • FYI:Inventing R&D

    • Growth The Role of Government in Promoting Economic



  • FYI:The Brazilian Breadbasket

  • Is World Growth Sustainable?

    • Natural Resources and Growth, Revisited

    • Economic Growth and the Environment



  • FYI:Coal Comfort on Resources

  • FYI:The Cost of Climate Protection

  • Module 39 AP Review

    • Models Module 40Economic Growth in Macroeconomic



  • Possibilities Curve Long-run Economic Growth and the Production

  • and Supply Model Long-run Economic Growth and the Aggregate Demand

  • Fluctuations Distinguishing Between Long-run Growth and Short-run

  • Module 40 AP Review

  • Section 7 Review

  • Section

  • Finance The Open Economy: International Trade and

    • of Payments Module 41Capital Flows and the Balance



  • Capital Flows and the Balance of Payments

    • Balance of Payments Accounts



  • FYI:GDP, GNP, and the Current Account

    • Modeling the Financial Account

    • Flows Underlying Determinants of International Capital



  • FYI:A Global Savings Glut?

    • Two-way Capital Flows



  • FYI:The Golden Age of Capital Flows

  • Module 4 AP Review

  • Module 42The Foreign Exchange Market

  • The Role of the Exchange Rate

    • Understanding Exchange Rates

    • The Equilibrium Exchange Rate

      • Inflation and Real Exchange Rates

      • Purchasing Power Parity

      • FYI:Burgernomics

      • FYI:Low-Cost America

      • Module 42 AP Review

      • Module 43Exchange Rate Policy

      • Exchange Rate Policy

        • Exchange rate Regimes

        • How Can an Exchange Rate Be Held Fixed?

        • The Exchange Rate Regime Dilemma



      • FYI:China Pegs the Yuan

      • Module 43 AP Review

        • Macroeconomic Policy Module 44Exchange Rates and



      • Exchange Rates and Macroeconomic Policy

        • Devaluation and Revaluation of fixed Exchange Rates



      • FYI:From Bretton Woods to the Euro

        • Regime Monetary Policy Under a Floating Exchange Rate

        • International Business Cycles



      • FYI:The Joy of a Devalued Pound

      • Module 44 AP Review

      • Module 45Putting It All Together

      • A Structure for Macroeconomics Analysis

        • The Starting Point

        • The Pivotal Event

        • The Initial Effect of the Event

        • Secondary and Long-Run Effects of the Event



      • Analyzing Our Scenario

      • Module 45 AP Review

      • Section 8 Review

      • Section

      • Behind the Demand Curve: Consumer Choice

        • Effects, and Elasticity Module 46Income Effects, Substitution



      • Explaining the Law of Demand

        • The Substitution Effect

        • The Income Effect



      • FYI:Giffen Goods

      • Defining and Measuring Elasticity

        • Price Elasticities and Tax Incidence



      • The Benefits and Costs of Taxation

        • The Revenue from an Excise Tax

        • The Costs of Taxation



      • Module 50 AP Review

      • Module 51Utility Maximization

      • Utility: It’s All About Getting Satisfaction

        • Utility and Consumption

        • The Principle of Diminishing Marginal Utility



      • FYI:Is Marginal Utility Really Diminishing?

      • Budgets and Optimal Consumption

        • Budget Constraints and Budget Lines

        • The Optimal Consumption Bundle



      • Spending the Marginal Dollar

        • Marginal Utility per Dollar

        • Optimal Consumption



      • Module 51 AP Review

      • Section 9 Review

      • Section

      • and Costs Behind the Supply Curve: Profit, Production,

      • Module 52Defining Profit

      • Understanding Profit

        • Explicit versus Implicit Costs

        • Accounting Profit versus Economic Profit



      • FYI:Farming in the Shadow of Suburbia

        • Normal Profit



      • Module 52 AP Review

      • Module 53Profit Maximization

      • Maximizing Profit

        • Profit-Maximizing Quantity of Output Using Marginal Analysis to Choose the

        • When Is Production Profitable?



      • Module 53 AP Review

      • Module 54The Production Function

      • The Production Function

        • Inputs and Output



      • FYI:Was Malthus Right?

      • Module 54 AP Review



    • Calculating the Price Elasticity of Demand CONTENTS xvii

    • The Midpoint Method An Alternative Way to Calculate Elasticities:



  • FYI:Estimating Elasticities

  • Module 46 AP Review

    • of Demand Module 47Interpreting Price Elasticity



  • Interpreting the Price Elasticity of Demand

    • How Elastic is Elastic?

    • Price Elasticity Along the Demand Curve

    • of Demand? What Factors Determine the Price Elasticity



  • FYI:Responding to Your Tuition Bill

  • Module 47 AP Review

  • Module 48Other Elasticities

  • Other Elasticities

    • The Cross-Price Elasticity of Demand

    • The Income Elasticity of Demand



  • FYI:Where Have All the Farmers Gone?

  • The Price Elasticity of Supply

    • Measuring the Price Elasticity of Supply



  • An Elasticity Menagerie

  • Module 48 AP Review

  • Module 49Consumer and Producer Surplus

  • Consumer Surplus and the Demand Curve

    • Willingness to Pay and the Demand Curve

    • Willingness to Pay and the Consumer Surplus

    • How Changing Prices Affect Consumer Surplus



  • FYI:A Matter of Life and Death

  • Producer Surplus and the Supply Curve

    • Cost and Producer Surplus

    • How Changing Prices Affect Producer Surplus



  • Module 49 AP Review

  • Module 50Efficiency and Deadweight Loss

  • Consumer Surplus, Producer Surplus, and Efficiency

    • The Gains from Trade

    • The Efficiency of Markets

    • Equity and Efficiency



  • The Effects of Taxes on Total Surplus

    • The Effect of an Excise Tax on Quantities and Prices



  • Module 55Firm Costs Contents

  • From the Production Function to Cost Curves

  • Two Key Concepts: Marginal Cost and Average Cost

    • Marginal Cost

    • Average Cost

    • Minimum Average Total Cost

    • Does the Marginal Cost Curve Always Slope Upward?



  • Module 55 AP Review

    • of Scale Module 56Long-Run Costs and Economies



  • Short-Run versus Long-Run Costs

    • Returns to Scale



  • Sunk Costs

  • FYI:There’s No Business Like Snow Business

    • Summing Up Costs: The Short and Long of It



  • Module 56 AP Review

  • Module 57Introduction to Market Structure

  • Types of Market Structure

  • Perfect Competition

    • Two Necessary Conditions for Perfect Competition



  • FYI:What’s a Standardized Product?

    • Free Entry and Exit



  • Monopoly

    • Defining Monopoly

    • Why Do Monopolies Exist?



  • Oligopoly

    • Is It an Oligopoly or Not?



  • Monopolistic Competition

  • Module 57 AP Review

  • Section 10 Review

  • Section

  • and Monopoly Market Structures: Perfect Competition

  • Module 58Introduction to Perfect Competition

  • Production and Profits

    • When Is Production Profitable?



  • Module 58 AP Review

  • Module 59Graphing Perfect Competition

  • Interpreting Perfect Competition Graphs

    • The Short-Run Production Decision

    • The Shut-Down Price

    • Changing Fixed Cost

    • Profitability and Production Conditions Summing Up: The Perfectly Competitive Firm’s

    • FYI:Prices Are Up but So Are Costs

    • Module 59 AP Review

      • Competition Module 60Long-Run Outcomes in Perfect



    • The Industry Supply Curve

      • The Short-Run Industry Supply Curve

      • The Long-Run Industry Supply Curve

      • Equilibrium The Cost of Production and Efficiency in Long-Run



    • FYI:A Crushing Reversal

    • Module 60 AP Review

    • Module 61Introduction to Monopoly

    • The Monopolist’s Demand Curve and Marginal Revenue

    • The Monopolist’s Profit-Maximizing Output and Price

    • Monopoly versus Perfect Competition

    • of Demand FYI:Monopoly Behavior and the Price Elasticity

    • Monopoly: The General Picture

    • Module 61 AP Review

    • Module 62Monopoly and Public Policy

    • Welfare Effect of Monopoly

    • Preventing Monopoly Power

    • Dealing with a Natural Monopoly

      • Public Ownership

      • Regulation

      • Must Monopoly Be Controlled?



    • FYI:Cable Dilemmas

    • Module 62 AP Review

    • Module 63Price Discrimination

    • Price Discrimination Defined

    • The Logic of Price Discrimination

    • Price Discrimination and Elasticity

    • Perfect Price Discrimination

    • Module 63 AP Review

    • Section 11 Review

      • Differentiation by Style or Type

      • Differentiation by Location

      • Differentiation by Quality



    • FYI:Any Color, So Long as It’s Black

    • Controversies About Product Differentiation

      • The Role of Advertising

      • Brand Names



    • Module 68 AP Review

    • Section 12 Review

    • Section

    • Factor Markets

    • Module 69Introduction and Factor Demand

    • The Economy’s Factors of Production

      • The Factors of Production

      • of Resources Why Factor Prices Matter: The Allocation

      • Factor Incomes and the Distribution of Income

      • The Factor Distribution of Income in the United States



    • Marginal Productivity and Factor Demand

      • Value of the Marginal Product

      • Value of the Marginal Product and Factor Demand

      • Shifts of the Factor Demand Curve



    • Module 69 AP Review

    • Module 70The Markets for Land and Capital

    • Land and Capital

      • Demand in the Markets for Land and Capital

      • Supply in the Markets for Land and Capital

      • Equilibrium in Land and Capital Markets



    • Marginal Productivity Theory

    • FYI:Help Wanted!

    • Module 70 AP Review

    • Module 71The Market for Labor

    • The Supply of Labor

      • Work versus Leisure

      • Wages and Labor Supply

      • Shifts of the Labor Supply Curve



    • Equilibrium in the Labor Market

    • FYI:The Decline of the Summer Job

      • Competitive When the Product Market Is Not Perfectly

      • When the Labor Market Is Not Perfectly Competitive





  • Section

  • Market Structures: Imperfect Competition

  • Module 64Introduction to Oligopoly

  • Understanding Oligopoly

    • A Duopoly Example

    • Collusion and Competition

    • with Quantities Competing with Prices versus Competing



  • FYI:The Great Vitamin Conspiracy

  • Module 64 AP Review

  • Module 65Game Theory

  • Games Oligopolists Play

    • The Prisoners’ Dilemma

    • Interaction and Tacit Collusion Overcoming the Prisoners’ Dilemma: Repeated



  • FYI:Prisoners of the Arms Race

  • Module 65 AP Review

  • Module 66Oligopoly in Practice

  • The Legal Framework

  • Tacit Collusion and Price Wars

    • Large Numbers

    • Complex Products and Pricing Schemes

    • Differences in Interests

    • Bargaining Power of Buyers



  • FYI:The Art of Conspiracy

  • Product Differentiation and Price Leadership

  • How Important is Oligopoly?

  • Module 66 AP Review

    • Competition Module 67Introduction to Monopolistic



  • Understanding Monopolistic Competition

    • Monopolistic Competition in the Short Run

    • Monopolistic Competition in the Long Run



  • FYI:Hits and Flops

  • Monopolistic Competition versus Perfect Competition

    • Price, Marginal Cost, and Average Total Cost

    • Is Monopolistic Competition Inefficient?



  • Module 67 AP Review

    • Advertising Module 68Product Differentiation and



  • How Firms Differentiate Their Products

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