Microeconomics + Discoverecon Online with Paul Solman Videos by Campbell R. McConnell, Stanley L. Brue, Stanley L. Brue

PART ONE: An Introduction to Economics and the Economy

1 The Nature and Method of Economics

2 The Economizing Problem

3 Individual Markets: Demand and Supply

3W Applications and Extensions of Supply and Demand Analysis

4 The Market System

5 The U.S. Economy: Private and Public Sectors

6 The United States in the Global Economy

PART TWO: Microeconomics of Product Markets

7 Elasticity of Demand and Supply

8 Consumer Behavior and Utility Maximization

9 The Costs of Production

10 Pure Competition

11 Pure Monopoly

12 Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly

13 Technology, R&D, and Efficiency

PART THREE: Microeconomics of Resource Markets

14 The Demand for Resources

15 Wage Determination

16 Rent, Interest, and Profit

PART FOUR: Microeconomics of Government

17 Government and Market Failure

18 Public Choice Theory and the Economics of Taxation

PART FIVE: Microeconomic Issues and Policies

19 Antitrust Policy and Regulation

20 Agriculture: Economics and Policy

21 Income Inequality and Poverty

22 Labor Market Institutions and Issues: Unionism, Discrimination, Immigration

23 The Economics of Health Care

PART SIX: International Economics and the World Economy

24 International Trade

25 Exchange Rates, the Balance of Payments, and Trade Deficits

40W Transition Economies: Russia and China