Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Marginal utility is the additional utility gained from consuming an additional unit of a particular good. It is the reason people do not spend all of their money on a single good: consumption of most goods comes with decreasing marginal utility. #2 The opportunity cost of a choice is the value of the best alternative that you must forgo in order to make that choice. The opportunity cost of going to a movie is the forgone utility from the next most enjoyable activity you could have done. #3 In economics, the factors of production are the inputs used to create finished goods. They are land, labor, and capital. The ideal situation is to use all resources to their fullest capacity, or use the fewest possible resources for any given level of output. #4 A production possibilities frontier illustrates the various choices that an economic entity can make when choosing what to produce, given the constraints imposed by its limited factors of production.

Find all of the following topics, explained in plain-English: Introduction: What is Economics? Not a Perfect Model Microeconomics vs. Macroeconomics 1. Maximizing Utility Decreasing Marginal Utility Opportunity Costs 2. Evaluating Production Possibilities Production Possibilities Frontiers Absolute and Comparative Advantage 3. Demand Determinants of Demand Elasticity of Demand Change in Demand vs. Change in Quantity Demanded 4. Supply Determinants of Supply Elasticity of Supply Change in Supply vs. Change in Quantity Supplied 5. Market Equilibrium How Market Equilibrium is Reached The Effect of Changes in Supply and Demand 6. Government Intervention Price Ceilings and Price Floors Taxes and Subsidies 7. Costs of Production Marginal Cost of Production Fixed vs. Variable Costs Short Run vs. Long Run Sunk Costs Economic Costs vs. Accounting Costs 8. Perfect Competition Firms Are Price Takers Making Decisions at the Margin Consumer and Producer Surplus 9. Monopoly Market Power Deadweight Loss with a Monopoly Monopolies and Government 10. Oligopoly Collusion Cheating the Cartel Government Intervention in Oligopolies 11. Monopolistic Competition Competing via Product Differentiation Loss of Surplus with Monopolistic Competition Conclusion: The Insights and Limitations of Economics

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