领先经济学原理

Part Ⅰ The Basics of Economics

Chapter One What Is Economics?

1. Two Branches of Economics

2. Economics, Scarcity and Choice

3. Opportunity Cost

4. Production Possibilities Curve

Chapter Two Economic Systems

1. Three Fundamental Questions

2. Alternative Ways of Answering the Three Fundamental Questions

3. Market Failure

4. The Role of Govemment

Part Ⅱ Microeconomics

Chapter Three Demand and Supply

1. Demand and the Demand Curve

2. Supply and the Supply Curve

3. Price Determination and Market Equilibrium

4. Change in Market Equilibrium

5. Government Intervention in Markets

Chapter Four Elasticity and lts Application

1. Price Elasticity ofDemand

2. Price Elasticity of Supply

3. Other Demand Elasticities

Chapter Five Consumer Choice and Demand

1. The Consumer's Budget Constraint

2. Utility

3. Consumer Decision Making

4. Deriving the Demand Curve

5. Ordinal Utiility

Chapter Six Production and Cost

1. Types of Firms

2. Cost and Profit

3. Production

4. Short-Run Production Cost

5. Long-Run Production Cost

Chapter Seven Market Structure

1. Perfect Competition

2. Monopoly

3. Monopolistic Competition

4. Oligopoly

Part Ⅲ Macroeconomics

Chapter Eight Macroeconomic Performance and Business Cycle

1. Why is Macroeconomics Important

2. Macroeconomic Goals

3. Gross Domestic Product

4. Measuring GDP

5. Other Measures of Nationallncome

6. Business Cycle

Chapter Nine Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand

1. Aggregate Supply

2. Aggregate Demand

3. Macroeconomic Equilibrium and Fluctuations

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