Chapter 1: Economics: The World Around You

• Mapping -- Another Type of Abstraction
• Teen Pregnancy and Welfare Reform
• Is Water a Free Good?
• College Attendance

Chapter 2: Choice, Opportunity Costs, and Specialization

• Newsgroup Markets
• Specialization and the Division of Labor
• WTO/GATT
• International Trade in Goods

Chapter 3: Markets, Demand and Supply, and the Price System

• Rent Control
• Energy Crisis in California
• Iowa Electronic Markets
• Buying the world a Coke?

Chapter 4: The Market System and the Private Sector

• Consumer Sovereignty
• Imports and Exports
• U.S. Imports and Exports by Area

Chapter 5: The Public Sector

• Cigarettes, Children, and the FDA
• Markets and Ocean Fisheries
• Federal, State, and Local Budgets

Chapter 6: National Income Accounting

• GDP
• The CPI and an Individual's Cost of Living
• Human Development Index
• Price Indexes

Chapter 7: An Introduction to the Foreign Exchange Market and the Balance of Payments

• Trends in World Trade
• CD prices in the United Kingdom
• Mexico's Balance of Payments
• Currency Appreciation and Depreciation

Chapter 8: Unemployment and Inflation

• Recent Macroeconomic Performance
• U.S. Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions
• Nominal and Real Interest Rates
• Controversy over Labour Statistics
• How the Government Measures Unemployment

Chapter 9: Macroeconomic Equilibrium: Aggregate Demand and Supply

• AD/AS Analysis and the U.S. Economy
• Mexico: Economic Policy Guidelines for 1998
• Alan Greenspan's February 2001 Report
• Business Cycles and AD/AS

Chapter 10: Aggregate Expenditures

• Capacity Utilization and Investment
• Consumption Function Data
• Net Exports and Unemployment
• Net Exports Deficit and Surplus

Chapter 11: Income and Expenditures Equilibrium

• FDR and the Income and Expenditures Model
• U.S. Economic Performance in 1997
• Macroeconomic Interdependence

Chapter 12: Fiscal Policy

• Tax Cuts and Investment
• A Balanced-Budget Amendment?
• U.S. Government Revenue
• Balanced Budget Amendment: Pro and Con

Chapter 13: Money and Banking

• Money in North American History
• The Bimetallic Standard and Gresham's Law
• The Euro
• Bank Failures

Chapter 14: Monetary Policy

• Continental Currency
• Velocity and Monetary Policy Rules
• Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee

Chapter 15: Macroeconomic Policy: Tradeoffs, Expectations, Credibility, and Sources of Business Cycles

• The Economic Report of the President
• Stanley Fischer on Central Banking
• Establishing Federal Reserve Inflation Goals
• The NAIRU

Chapter 16: Macroeconomic Viewpoints: New Keynesian, Monetarist, and New Classical

• The Evolution of Macroeconomic Principles
• Paul Romer's Views on Macroeconomic Policy
• Janet Yellen

Chapter 17: Macroeconomic Links Between Countries

• Purchasing Power Parity and the Big Mac
• A Common Monetary Policy for the EC
• The OECD

Chapter 18: Economic Growth

• Expanding the Nation's Productive Capacity
• Breaking Down the Barriers to Technological Progress
• Factor Contributions to East Asian Economic Growth
• Paul Romer on Economic Growth
• Corruption and Productivity

Chapter 19: Development Economics

• Lending for Industrial Technology
• Technical Assistance
• Human Capital and Gender Equality

Chapter 20: Elasticity: Demand and Supply

• Bill Gates' Speech at the Microsoft CEO Summit
• Cigarette Taxes and Demand Elasticity
• Darnell Group
• Substitution Among Pharmaceuticals

Chapter 21: Consumer Choice

• Disneyland and Consumer Surplus
• All You Can Eat Buffets
• Online Service Cost

Chapter 22: Supply: The Costs of Doing Business

• Earth Day: Charting the Next 25 Years
• The Case for Concentration
• Economies of Scale on Dairy Farms
• Fixed and Variable Costs at IBM

Chapter 23: Profit Maximization

• Economic costs and profits for apple orchards
• Economic profit in the banking industry
• Economic Value Added

Chapter 24: Perfect Competition

• Identifying Over-Priced Journals
• Hog Market Cycles
• The FTC and Market Power

Chapter 25: Monopoly

• The DeBeers Diamond Cartel
• The Regulation of California's Electric Industry
• Utilities Regulated by the New York State Public Services Commission
• Elasticity of Demand: "Hints on Obtaining Low Fares"
• Deregulation and Stranded Costs

Chapter 26: Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly

• The Prisoners' Dilemma
• "The Myth of Predatory Pricing"
• Oil and the Gulf War
• The FTC

Chapter 27: The New Economy

• Allen Greenspan on the "New Economy"
• Paul Krugman on the "New Economy"
• Old Economy

Chapter 28: Government Policy Toward Business

• Gillette-Parker Merger
• Toys "R" Us
• Wal-Mart v. American Drugs
• The WTO and Global Regulation

Chapter 29: Resource Markets

• Farms, Fertilizer, and Economic Analysis
• Faculty, Physicians, and Economic Rent
• The Uranium Market

Chapter 30: The Labor Market

• Earning Differences Between Men and Women
• Should all Baseball Teams be Competitive?
• U.S. Discrimination Law
• Current Labor Market Conditions
• The Market Price of an Economist
• Who Pays for Mandated Health Insurance?
• The Role of the EEOC

Chapter 31: The Capital Market

• Present Discounted Value
• Bond Markets
• The U.S. Patent Office

Chapter 32: The Land Market: Natural Resources and Environmental Policy

• Finite Resources
• U.S. Policy and Global Warming
• Should Amtrak be subsidized?
• The Sierra Club

Chapter 33: Aging, Social Security, and Health Care

• Social Security Reform
• Medical Savings Accounts
• The Aging of the U.S. Population

Chapter 34: Income Distribution, Poverty, and Government Policy

• Trends in Poverty rates
• Marginal Tax Rates and Phaseouts
• The Lorenz Curve

Chapter 35: World Trade Equilibrium

• Globalization Takes Hold
• The Role of the WTO

Chapter 36: International Trade Restrictions

• Aftermarket Auto Parts
• Free Trade Area of the Americas
• Health and Sanitary Requirements
• The Role of the WTO

Chapter 37: Exchange-Rate Systems and Practices

• Alternative Exchange Rate Systems
• Dollar Peggers