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Part I: Introduction. Ten Principles of Economics. Thinking Like anEconomist. Interdependence and the Gains from Trade. Part II: Supply andDemand I: How Markets Work. The Market Forces of Supply and Demand.Elasticity and Its Application. Supply, Demand, and Government Policies. PartIII: Supply & Demand II: Markets and Welfare. Consumers, Producers, and theEfficiency of Markets. Application: The Costs of Taxation. Application:International Trade. Part IV: The Economics of Public Sector. Externalities.Public Goods and Common Resources. The Design of the Tax System. Part V: FirmBehaviour and the Organisation. The Costs of Production. Firms in CompetitiveMarkets. Monopoly. Oligopoly. Monopolistic Competition. Part VI: TheEconomics of Labour Markets. The Markets for Factors of Production. Earningsand Discrimination. The Distribution of Income. Part VII: Advanced Topic. TheTheory of Consumer Choice. Part VIII: The Data of Macroeconomics. Measuring aNation's Income. Measuring the Cost of Living. Part IX: The Real Economy inthe Long Run. Production and Growth. Saving, Investment, and the FinancialSystem. The Natural Rate of Unemployment. Part X: Money and Prices in theLong Run. The Monetary System. Inflation: Its Causes and Costs. Part XI: TheMacroeconomics of Open Economies. Open-Economy Macroeconomics: BasicConcepts. A Macroeconomic Theory of the Open Economy. Part XII: Short-RunEconomic Fluctuations. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply. The Influenceof Monetary and Fiscal Policy on Aggregate Demand. The Short-run Tradeoffbetween Inflation and Unemployment Part XIII: Final Thoughts. Five DebatesOver Macroeconomic Policy.