Modern Principles: Microeconomics
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Writing about economics at Marginal Revolution taught us to use vivid examples and to get to the point quickly. We brought these skills to our textbook, Modern Principles of Economics.
From the first sentence, The prisoners were dying of scurvy, typhoid fever, and smallpox, but
nothing was killing them more than bad incentives. to the last, no other textbook teaches the economic way of thinking so well or so memorably.
Modern Principles means modern content and modern delivery. We cover material that many other textbooks ignore, such as how managers should choose between piece rates and tournaments and how firms can increase their profits using clever forms of price discrimination such as bundling and tying. In macroeconomics, we have created a simple yet powerful AD-AS model that combines insights from New Keynesian and Real Business Cycle models.
We have also created the Super Simple Solow model which for the first time makes the Solow model of economic growth accessible to principles of economics students.
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Table of Contents
Preface1. The Big Ideas
2. The Power of Trade and Comparative Advantage
Part 1: Supply and Demand
3. Supply and Demand
4. Equilibrium: How Supply and Demand Determine Prices
5. Elasticity and Its Applications
Appendix: Other Types of Elasticities
6. Taxes and Subsidies
Part 2: The Price System
7. The Price System: Signals, Speculation, and Prediction
8. Price Ceilings and Floors
9. International Trade
10. Externalities: When the Price Is Not Right
Part 3: Firms and Factor Markets
11. Costs and Profit Maximization Under Competition
Appendix: Using Excel to Graph Cost Curves
12. Competition and the Invisible Hand
13. Monopoly
14. Price Discrimination and Pricing Strategy
Appendix: Solving PRice Discrimination Problems with Excel (Advanced Section)
15. Oligopoly and Game Theory
Appendix: Nash Equilibrium
16. Competing for Monopoly: The Economics of Network Goods
17. Monopolistic Competition and Advertising
18. Labor Markets
Part 4: Government
19. Public Goods and the Tragedy of the Commons
Appendix: The Tragedy of the Commons: How Fast?
20. Political Economy and Public Choice
21. Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy
Part 5: Decision Making for Businesses, Investors, and Consumers
22. Managing Incentives
23. Stock Markets and Personal Finance
24. Asymmetric Information: Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection
25. Consumer Choice
Appendix A: Reading Graphs and Making Graphs
Appendix B: Solutions to Check Yourself Questions.
Glossary
References
Index
Authors

Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen is Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Director of the Mercatus Center and the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy. He is published widely in economics journals, including the American Economic Review and Journal of Political Economy. With Alex Tabarrok he co-writes the Marginal Revolution blog, often ranked as the #1 economics blog. He is also the author of Discover Your Inner Economist (Dutton, 2007) and numerous other books on economics. He writes regularly for the popular press on economics, including for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, and The Wilson Quarterly. University web page: http://economics.gmu.edu/faculty/tcowen.html WATCH: Tyler Cowen at the Economic Bloggers Forum.

Alex Tabarrok
Alex Tabarrok is Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and director of research for The Independent Institute. Tabarrok is co-author with Tyler Cowen of the popular economics blog, Marginal Revolution. His recent research looks at bounty hunters, judicial incentives and elections, crime control, patent reform, methods to increase the supply of human organs for transplant, and the regulation of pharmaceuticals. He is the editor of the books, Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science; The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society; and Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and The Control of Crime. His papers have appeared in the Journal of Law and Economics, Public Choice, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, The American Law and Economics Review, Kyklos and many other journals. His popular articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other magazines and newspapers.
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