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
part-2 producers, consumers, and competitive markets
Chapter 3: Consumer behavior
Chapter 4: Individual and market demand
Chapter 5: uncertainty and consumer behavior
Chapter 6: Production
Chapter 7: The cost of production
Chapter 8: Profit maximization and competitive supply
Chapter 9: The analysis of competitive markets
Part-3 Market structure and competitive strategy
Chapter 10: Market power: monopoly and monopsony
Chapter 11: pricing with market power
Chapter 12: Monopolistic competition and oligopoly
Chapter 13: Game theory and competitive strategy
Chapter 14: Markets for factor inputs
Chapter 15: Investment, time, and capital markets
Part -4 Information, market failure, and the role of government
Chapter 16: General equilibrium and economic efficiency
Chapter 17: Markets with asymmetric information
Chapter 18: Externalities and public goods
Chapter 19: Behavioral economics
Appendix: the basics of regression
Glossary
Answers to selected exercises
Photo credits
Index