Principles of microeconomics /
N. Gregory Mankiw.
- Eighth edition. Philippine edition.
- Taguig City, Philippines : Cengage Learning Asia Pte Ltd, c2018.
- xxxii, 491 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Ten principles of economics -- Thinking like an economist -- Interdependence and the gains from trade -- How markets work -- The market forces of supply and demand -- Elasticity and its application -- Supply, demand, and government policies -- Markets and welfare -- Consumers, producers, and the efficiency of markets -- Application: the costs of taxation -- Application: international trade -- The economics of the public sector -- Externalities -- Public goods and common resources -- The design of the tax system -- Firm behavior and the organization of industry -- The costs of production -- Firms in competitive markets -- Monopoly -- Monopolistic competition -- Oligopoly -- The economics of labor markets -- The markets for the factors of production -- Earnings and discrimination -- Income inequality and poverty -- Topics for further study -- The theory of consumer choice -- Frontiers of microeconomics.