TY - BOOK AU - Parkin,Michael TI - Microeconomics SN - 0321112075 (alk. paper) U1 - 338.5 22 PY - 2003///] CY - Boston PB - Pearson Addison Wesley KW - Microeconomics N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; I. INTRODUCTION. 1. What Is Economics? 2. The Economic Problem. II. HOW MARKETS WORK. 3. Demand and Supply. 4. Elasticity. 5. Efficiency and Equity. 6. Markets in Action. III. HOUSEHOLDS' CHOICES. 7. Utility and Demand. 8. Possibilities, Preferences, and Choices. IV. FIRMS AND MARKETS. 9. Organizing Production. 10. Output and Costs. 11. Perfect Competition. 12. Monopoly. 13. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly. V. FACTOR MARKETS. 14. Demand and Supply in Factor Markets. 15. Economic Inequality. VI. MARKET FAILURE AND GOVERNMENT. 16. Public Goods and Taxes. 17. Regulation and Antitrust Law. 18. Externalities. VII. THE GLOBAL ECONOMY. 19. Trading with the World. 20. Global Stock Markets ER -