Description: 1. Economics and Institutions: A Shift of Emphasis. 2. Consumers and their Preferences. 3. Demand and Behavior in Markets. 4. The Problem of Exchange. 5. The Discovery of Production and its Technology. 6. Cost and Choice. 7. Game Theory and the Tools of Strategic Business Analysis. 8. The Internal Organization of the Firm. 9. The Age of Entrepreneurship: Monopoly. 10. Natural Monopoly and the Economics of Regulation. 11. The World of Oligopoly: Preliminaries to Successful Entry. 12. Market Entry and the Emergence of Perfect Competition. 13. Perfectly Competitive Markets. 14. Uncertainty and the Emergence of Insurance. 15. General Equilibrium and the Origins of the Free-Market and Interventionist Ideologies. 16. Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection: Informational Market Failures. 17. Externalities: The Free Market-Interventionist Market Failures. 18. Public Goods, the Consequences of Strategic Voting Behavior, and the Role of Government. 19. Input Markets and the Origins of Class Conflict.

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