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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