Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction
1.	Thinking like an Economist
Appendix:	Working with Equations, Graphs, and Tables
2.	Some Common Pitfalls for Decision Makers
3.	Comparative Advantage: The Basis for Exchange
4.	Supply and Demand: An Introduction
Part 2: Competition and the Invisible Hand
5.	Demand: The Benefit Side of the Market
6.	Perfectly Competitive Supply: The Cost Side of the Market
7.	Efficiency and Exchange
8.	The Quest for Profit and the Invisible Hand
Part 3: Market Imperfections
9.	Monopoly and Other Forms of Imperfect Competition
10.	Thinking Strategically
11.	Externalities and Property Rights
12.	The Economics of Information
Part 4: Labour Markets and the Public Sector
13.	Labour Markets
14.	The Economics of Public Policy
15.	Public Goods and Taxation
16.	Income Redistribution