Principles of Microeconomics Scarcity and Social Provisioning

Principles of Microeconomics: Scarcity and Social Provisioning takes a pluralistic approach to the standard topics of an introductory microeconomics course. The text builds on the chiefly neoclassical material of the OpenStax Principles of Economics text, adding extensive content from heterodox econ...

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Main Authors: Dean, Erik (Author), Elardo, Justin (Author), Green, Mitch (Author), Wilson, Benjamin (Author), Berger, Sebastian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] Open Oregon Educational Resources [2016]
Series:Open textbook library.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Welcome to Economics!
  • Chapter 2. Choice in a World of Scarcity
  • Chapter 3: Defining Economics: A Pluralistic Approach
  • Chapter 4. Demand and Supply
  • Chapter 5. Labor and Financial Markets
  • Chapter 6. Elasticity
  • Chapter 7. Consumer Choices
  • Chapter 8. Challenging the Role of Utilitarianism
  • Chapter 9. An Institutional Analysis of Modern Consumption
  • Chapter 10. Cost and Industry Structure
  • Chapter 11. Perfect Competition
  • Chapter 12. Monopoly
  • Chapter 13. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
  • Chapter 14. The Rise of Big Business
  • Chapter 15. Costs and Prices: The Evidence
  • Chapter 16. The Megacorp
  • Chapter 17. Monopoly and Antitrust Policy
  • Chapter 18. Environmental Protection and Negative Externalities
  • Chapter 19. Positive Externalities and Public Goods
  • Chapter 20. Poverty and Economic Inequality
  • Chapter 21. Issues in Labor Markets: Unions, Discrimination, Immigration
  • Chapter 22. Information, Risk, and Insurance
  • Chapter 23. Financial Markets
  • Chapter 24. Public Economy
  • Chapter 25. Money and the Theory of the Firm
  • Chapter 26. International Trade
  • Chapter 27. Globalization and Protectionism
  • Chapter 28. The Economics of Globalization and Trade: A Pluralistic Approach