AN INTERMEDIATE TEXT by David Friedman (original) (raw)
Price Theory: An Intermediate Text
by
David D. Friedman
Published by South-Western Publishing Co.
�David D. Friedman 1986, 1990
Table of Contents
| Introduction | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preface | ||
| Section | I | ECONOMICS FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT |
| Chapter | 1 | What is Economics? |
| 2 | How Economists Think. | |
| Section | II | PRICE=VALUE=COST: COMPETITIVE EQUILIBRIUM IN A SIMPLE ECONOMY |
| Chapter | 3 | The Consumer: Choice and Indifference Curves |
| 4 | The Consumer: Marginal Value, Marginal Utility, and Consumer Surplus | |
| 5 | Production | |
| 6 | Simple Trade | |
| 7 | Markets&endash;Putting it All Together | |
| 8 | The Big Picture | |
| Halftime | ||
| Section | III | COMPLICATIONS, OR ONWARD TO REALITY |
| Chapter | 9 | The Firm |
| 10 | Small-Numbers Problems: Monopoly and All That | |
| 11 | Hard Problems: Game Theory, Strategic Behavior, and Oligopoly | |
| 12 | Time... | |
| 13 | ...and Chance | |
| 14 | The Distribution of Income and the Factors of Production | |
| Section | IV | JUDGING OUTCOMES |
| Chapter | 15 | Economic Efficiency |
| 16 | What is Efficient? | |
| 17 | Market Interference | |
| 18 | Market Failures | |
| Section | V | APPLICATIONS &endash; CONVENTIONAL AND UN |
| Chapter | 19 | The Political Marketplace |
| 20 | The Economics of Law and Law Breaking | |
| 21 | The Economics of Love and Marriage | |
| Section | VI | WHY YOU SHOULD BUY THIS BOOK |
| Chapter | 22 | Final Words |
| Additional Chapters from the First Edition not included in the Second | ||
| Chapter | 21 | The Economics of Heating |
| 22 | Inflation and Unemployment |
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The book is available, in a version slightly edited from this one, on Amazon.com as both a paperback and a kindle, as is a later book Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life, which offers a similar approach to explaining economics in a shorter form, aimed at the intelligent layman rather than at students taking intermediate micro. The latter book should also be available as an audiobook read by me by about February 1, 2020, from Audible.
The chapters given here are from the versions on my hard disk, and differ in minor details from the published versions. The same is true of the figures.