Table of Contents :
Preface
Preface to the Indian edition
Part -1 Introduction : markets and prices
Chapter 1: Preliminaries
Chapter 2: The basics of supply and demand 21
part-2 producers, consumers, and competitive markets 65
Chapter 3: Consumer behavior 67
Chapter 4: Individual and market demand 111
Chapter 5: uncertainty and consumer behavior
Chapter 6: Production 189
Chapter 7: The cost of production 217
Chapter 8: Profit maximization and competitive supply 269
Chapter 9: The analysis of competitive markets 307
Part-3 Market structure and competitive strategy 347
Chapter 10: Market power: monopoly and monopsony 349
Chapter 11: pricing with market power 393
Chapter 12: Monopolistic competition and oligopoly
Chapter 13: Game theory and competitive strategy 483
Chapter 14: Markets for factor inputs 525
Chapter 15: Investment, time, and capital markets 553
Part -4 Information, market failure, and the role of government 587
Chapter 16: General equilibrium and economic efficiency 589
Chapter 17: Markets with asymmetric information 625
Chapter 18: Externalities and public goods 653
Chapter 19: Behavioral economics 691
Appendix: the basics of regression 713
Glossary: 721
Answers to selected exercises 731
Photo credits 746
Index 747
Chapter 10: