Table of contents
Part I Markets in Context
1. Key principles
2. Markets in context
Part II Resource Allocation for People
3. Affordability
4. Preferences
5. Utility functions
6. The most preferred, affordable bundle
7. Demand functions
8. Price changes
9. The CES utility function
Part III Resource Allocation for Firms
10. Production
11. Cost Functions
12. Costs and Planning
13. Firm Supply in Perfect Competition
14. Equilibrium in Perfect Competition
Part IV Market Power
15. Monopoly
16. Price discrimination
17. Oligopoly
18. Game theory: concepts
19. Game theory: applications
Part V: Welfare
20. Exchange
21. Production and distribution
22. Externalities
23. Public goods
Part VI: Behaviour
24. Personal choice
25. Inter-temporal choice
26. Choice and risk
27. Rationality and behaviour
Part VII: Applying Game Theory
28. Games with imperfect information
29. Product differentiation
30. Auctions
31. Afterword