Economic literacy: basic economics with an attitude

I: Microeconomics and the theory of markets

Ch. 1: Demand and Supply

Demand

Income and Wealth

Prices of Other Goods

Tastes

Expectations

Supply

Prices of Inputs

Technology

Expectations

Market Equilibrium

Elasticity

Sales Taxes

Ch. 2: The Theory of the Firm, Market Structures, Factor Markets, and the Distribution of Income

Perfect Competition

Market Failure

Monopoly

Price Discrimination

Monopolistic Competition

Oligopoly

The End of Oligopoly?

Deregulation

The Theory of Factor Pricing

The Distribution of Income

II: Macroeconomics

Ch. 3: The Economy as a Whole: Definitions and Analyses

Why Macroeconomics?

How Gross Is the Gross Domestic Product?

Effective Demand

Households and Consumption

The Business Sector and Investment

The Public Sector

Ch. 4: Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy, Recession, and Inflation

Fiscal Policy: Taxing and Spending Financial Markets, the Federal Reserve System, Money Is as Money Does

and Monetary Policy

Monetary Policy

Business Cycles, Inflation, and Unemployment

Up, Up, Up,

Down, Down, Down,

Additional Aspects of Stabilization Policy

Doubts about Inflation-Unemployment Trade-Off

Implications of Greater International Integration

III: International economics and national economics

Ch. 5: International Economics and Comparative Advantage

The Idea of Comparative Advantage

Exchange Rates and Adjustment Mechanisms

Gold Standard

Flexible Exchange Rates

International Investment and the Balance of Payments

Government Policy and the International Economy: Tariffs, Quotas, and Exchange Rates

Free Trade Determining Public Policy

Ch. 6 The International Economy: The Rise and Fall of Bretton Woods

The Dollar Exchange Standard, 1944-1971 A Final Note on the Place of the United States

Transnational Corporations

The Transformation of the International Economy

The End of the Bretton Woods Payments System

The Beginning of a New International Economy

The New International Economy

Two Caveats

in the Global Economy

Appendix A: Input-output economics

Appendix B: Websites of related interest.

Demand and supply

The theory of the firm, market structures, factor markets, and the distribution of income

The economy as a whole: definitions and analyses

Fiscal policy, monetary policy, recession, and inflation

International economics and comparative advantage

The international economy: the rise and fall of Bretton Woods.