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1: Common Ground, 5
2: From Kitty Hawk to Dreamliner, 25
3: NEW: A Natural Gas Boom, 67
4: Making Gains by the Book, 103
5: Big City, Not-So-Bright Ideas, 131
6: NEW: Taken for a Ride, 161
7: The Founding Taxers, 187
8: NEW: The Everywhere Phone, 217
9: Going Back to School, 249
10: The Absolute Last Bite, 281
11: The Farmer’s Margin, 329
12: NEW: Deck the Halls, 357
13: Everybody Must Get Stones, 385
14: Caught in the Act, 419
15: Fast-Food Differentiation, 445
16: NEW: Trouble Underfoot, 465
17: The Great Stink, 489
18: NEW: The Coming of Obamacare, 511
19: The Value of a Degree, 543
20: NEW: Extreme Weather, 581
2: Pajama Republics, 37
3: Pay More, Pump Less, 71
5: Check Out Our Low, Low Wages!, 145
6: Food’s Bite in World Budgets, 176
7: You Think You Pay High Taxes?, 209
8: Productivity and Wages Around the World,
223
9: Portion Sizes, 261
11: Wheat Yields Around the World, 332
13: The Price We Pay, 391
14: Contrasting Approaches to Antitrust
Regulation, 434
16: Economic Growth and Greenhouse Gases
in Six Countries, 473
17: Voting as a Public Good: The Global
Perspective, 496
18: NEW: Income, Redistribution, and
Inequality in Rich Countries, 515
19: The Overworked American?, 567
Applications in Economics
CHAPTER-OPENING STORIES
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1: First Principles, 5
2: Economic Models: Trade-offs
and Trade, 25
3: Supply and Demand, 67
4: Consumer and Producer Surplus, 103
5: Price Controls and Quotas:
Meddling with Markets, 131
6: Elasticity, 161
7: Taxes, 187
8: International Trade, 217
9: Decision Making by Individuals
and Firms, 249
10: The Rational Consumer, 281
11: Behind the Supply Curve:
Inputs and Costs, 329
12: Perfect Competition and the
Supply Curve, 357
13: Monopoly, 385
14: Oligopoly, 419
15: Monopolistic Competition and
Product Differentiation, 445
16: Externalities, 465
17: Public Goods and Common
Resources, 489
18: The Economics of the Welfare
State, 511
19: Factor Markets and the
Distribution of Income, 543
20: Uncertainty, Risk, and Private
Information, 581
GLOBAL COMPARISONS
