微观经济学以分析家庭和企业的行为为基本内容，说明了市场价格机制如何调节经济的运行。本书首先分析了市场供求关系如何决定价格，以及价格如何调节经济，以实现市场效率。然后论述了企业在不同竞争与垄断程度的市场上如何作出决策。最后阐述了市场经济中生产要素供求所决定的要素价格如何决定收入分配。全书用现实中我们所熟悉的事例介绍了微观经济学的基本原理，使初学者易读、易懂，而且学起来有兴趣。这本改编教材保留了原书的精华，删去一些关系不大的内容，从而更加精练，更为易学，值得初学者作为入门教材。
- 目录
- 前辅文
- 1 Ten Principles of Economics
- 2 Thinking Like an Economist
- 3 Interdependence and the Gains from Trade
- 4 The Market Forces of Supply and Demand
- 5 Elasticity and Its Application
- 6 Supply, Demand, and Government Policies
- 7 Consumers, Producers, and the Efficiency of Markets
- 8 Application: The Costs of Taxation
- 9 The Costs of Production
- 10 Firms in Competitive Markets
- 11 Monopoly
- 12 Monopolistic Competition
- 13 Oligopoly
- 14 The Markets for the Factors of Production
- 15 Earnings and Discrimination
- 16 Income Inequality and Poverty
- Glossary
