TY - BOOK AU - Mankiw,N.Gregory TI - Principles of microeconomics. SN - 9780324589986 AV - HB172.M34 U1 - 338.5 22 PY - 2009/// CY - London PB - South-Western KW - Microeconomics N1 - Includes index; Contents: Ten principles of economics -- Thinking line an economist -- Interdependence and the gins from trade -- The market forces of supply and demand -- Elasticity and its application -- Supply a, demand and government policies -- consumers, producers, and the efficiency of markets -- Application: the cost of taxation -- Application: international trade -- Externalities -- Public goods and common resources -- The design of the tax system -- The costs of production -- Firms in competitive markets -- Monopoly -- Monopolistic competition -- Oligopoly -- The markets for the factors of production -- Earnings and discrimination -- Income inequality and poverty -- The theory of consumer choice -- Frontiers of microeconomics -- ER -