Part 1: Supply and Demand -- CHAPTER 1 The Big Ideas -- CHAPTER 2 The Power of Trade and Comparative Advantage -- CHAPTER 3 Supply and Demand -- CHAPTER 4 Equilibrium: How Supply and Demand Determine Prices -- CHAPTER 5 Elasticity and its Applications -- CHAPTER 6 Taxes and Subsides -- Part 2: The price system -- CHAPTER 7 The Price System: Signals, Speculation and Prediction -- CHAPTER 8 Price Ceilings Floors -- CHAPTER 9 International Trade -- CHAPTER 10 Externalities: When Prices Send the Wrong Signals -- Part 3: Firms and Factor Markets -- CHAPTER 11 Costs and Profit Maximization Under Competition -- CHAPTER 12 Competition and the Invisible Hand -- CHAPTER 13 Monopoly -- CHAPTER 14 Price Discrimination -- CHAPTER 15 Cartels, Oligopolies, and Monopolistic Competition -- CHAPTER 16 Competing for Monopoly: The Economics of Network Goods -- CHAPTER 17 Labor Markets -- Part 4: Government -- CHAPTER 18 Public Goods and the Tragedy of the Commons -- CHAPTER 19 Political Economy and Public Choice -- CHAPTER 20 Economics, Ethics and Public Policy -- Part 5: Decision Making for Businesses, Investors, and Consumers -- CHAPTER 21 Managing Incentives -- CHAPTER 22 Stock Markets and Personal Finance -- CHAPTER 23 Consumer Choice -- APPENDIX A Reading Graphs and Making Graphs -- APPENDIX B Solutions to Check Yourself Questions -- Glossary G-1.