Principles of Microeconomics for AP® Courses 2e covers the scope and sequence requirements for an Advanced Placement® microeconomics course and is listed on the College Board’s AP® example textbook list. The second edition includes many current examples and recent data from FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data), which are presented in a politically equitable way. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts.

Principles of Microeconomics for AP® Courses 2e 

1.1 What Is Economics, and Why Is It Important?

1.3 How Economists Use Theories and Models to Understand Economic Issues

1.4 How To Organize Economies: An Overview of Economic Systems

Introduction to Choice in a World of Scarcity

2.1 How Individuals Make Choices Based on Their Budget Constraint

2.2 The Production Possibilities Frontier and Social Choices

2.3 Confronting Objections to the Economic Approach

3.1 Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium in Markets for Goods and Services

3.2 Shifts in Demand and Supply for Goods and Services

3.3 Changes in Equilibrium Price and Quantity: The Four-Step Process

Introduction to Labor and Financial Markets

4.1 Demand and Supply at Work in Labor Markets

4.2 Demand and Supply in Financial Markets

4.3 The Market System as an Efficient Mechanism for Information

5.1 Price Elasticity of Demand and Price Elasticity of Supply

5.2 Polar Cases of Elasticity and Constant Elasticity

6.2 How Changes in Income and Prices Affect Consumption Choices

6.4 Intertemporal Choices in Financial Capital Markets

Introduction to Production, Costs, and Industry Structure

7.1 Explicit and Implicit Costs, and Accounting and Economic Profit

Chapter 7. Production, Costs and Industry Structure

8.1 Perfect Competition and Why It Matters

8.2 How Perfectly Competitive Firms Make Output Decisions

8.3 Entry and Exit Decisions in the Long Run

8.4 Efficiency in Perfectly Competitive Markets

9.1 How Monopolies Form: Barriers to Entry

9.2 How a Profit-Maximizing Monopoly Chooses Output and Price

Introduction to Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly

Chapter 10. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly

Introduction to Monopoly and Antitrust Policy

Chapter 11. Monopoly and Antitrust Policy

Introduction to Environmental Protection and Negative Externalities

12.4 The Benefits and Costs of U.S. Environmental Laws

12.6 The Tradeoff between Economic Output and Environmental Protection

Chapter 12. Environmental Protection and Negative Externalities

Introduction to Positive Externalities and Public Goods

13.1 Why the Private Sector Underinvests in Innovation

13.2 How Governments Can Encourage Innovation

Chapter 13. Positive Externalities and Public Goods

Introduction to Poverty and Economic Inequality

14.4 Income Inequality: Measurement and Causes

14.5 Government Policies to Reduce Income Inequality

Chapter 14. Poverty and Economic Inequality

15.1 Market Power on the Supply Side of Labor Markets: Unions

Introduction to Information, Risk, and Insurance

16.1 The Problem of Imperfect Information and Asymmetric Information

Chapter 16. Information, Risk, and Insurance

17.1 How Businesses Raise Financial Capital

17.2 How Households Supply Financial Capital

18.1 Voter Participation and Costs of Elections

18.3 Flaws in the Democratic System of Government

19.2 What Happens When a Country Has an Absolute Advantage in All Goods

19.3 Intra-industry Trade between Similar Economies

19.4 The Benefits of Reducing Barriers to International Trade

Introduction to Globalization and Protectionism

20.1 Protectionism: An Indirect Subsidy from Consumers to Producers

20.2 International Trade and Its Effects on Jobs, Wages, and Working Conditions

20.3 Arguments in Support of Restricting Imports

20.4 How Governments Enact Trade Policy: Globally, Regionally, and Nationally

Chapter 20. Globalization and Protectionism

Appendix A The Use of Mathematics in Principles of Economics

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Principles of Economics 2e covers the scope and sequence of most introductory economics courses. The text includes many current examples, which are handled in a politically equitable way. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to increase clarity, update data and current event impacts, and incorporate the feedback from many reviewers and adopters.

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Principles of Economics 3e covers the scope and sequence of most introductory economics courses. The third edition takes a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts. The text uses conversational language and ample illustrations to explore economic theories, and provides a wide array of examples using both fictional and real-world scenarios. The third edition has been carefully and thoroughly updated to reflect current data and understanding, as well as to provide a deeper background in diverse contributors and their impacts on economic thought and analysis. For example, the third edition highlights the research and views of a broader group of economists. Brief references and deeply explored socio-political examples have been updated to showcase the critical – and sometimes unnoticed – ties between economic developments and topics relevant to students.

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Principles of Macroeconomics 2e covers the scope and sequence of most introductory economics courses. The text includes many current examples, which are handled in a politically equitable way. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to increase clarity, update data and current event impacts, and incorporate the feedback from many reviewers and adopters.

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Principles of Macroeconomics 3e covers the scope and sequence of most one semester introductory macroeconomics courses. The third edition takes a balanced approach to the theory and application of macroeconomics concepts. The text uses conversational language and ample illustrations to explore economic theories, and provides a wide array of examples using both fictional and real-world scenarios. The third edition has been carefully and thoroughly updated to reflect current data and understanding, as well as to provide a deeper background in diverse contributors and their impacts on economic thought and analysis. For example, the third edition highlights the research and views of a broader group of economists. Brief references and deeply explored socio-political examples have also been updated to showcase the critical – and sometimes unnoticed – ties between economic developments and topics relevant to students.

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Principles of Microeconomics 2e covers the scope and sequence of most introductory microeconomics courses. The text includes many current examples, which are handled in a politically equitable way. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to increase clarity, update data and current event impacts, and incorporate the feedback from many reviewers and adopters.

Principles of Microeconomics 2e 

Principles of Microeconomics 3e covers the scope and sequence of most one semester introductory microeconomics courses. The third edition takes a balanced approach to the theory and application of microeconomics concepts. The text uses conversational language and ample illustrations to explore economic theories, and provides a wide array of examples using both fictional and real-world applications. The third edition has been carefully and thoroughly updated to reflect recent developments, as well as to provide a deeper background in diverse contributors and their impacts on economic thought and analysis. For example, the third edition highlights the research and views of a broader group of economists.

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Steven A. Greenlaw

Principles of Economics 2e

Principles of Macroeconomics for AP® Courses 2e

Principles of Economics 3e

Principles of Macroeconomics 2e

Principles of Macroeconomics 3e

Principles of Microeconomics 2e

Principles of Microeconomics 3e

Steven A. Greenlaw

David Shapiro

David Shapiro