Online Microeconomics Textbook
About.com's Online Microeconomics Textbook is a set of links to resources on various Microeconomics topics. As with most online microeconomics resources this is very much a work in progress, so if there is something you'd like to see covered in more depth please contact me by using the feedback form.
Each Microeconomics textbook covers the core material in a different order. The order here is adapted from Parkin and Bade's text Economics but it should be fairly close to those in other Microeconomics texts.
CHAPTER 2:Production and Trade
- Production Possibility Frontier
- Gains From Trade and International Trade
CHAPTER 3: Economic Growth
CHAPTER 4: Opportunity Cost
CHAPTER 5: Demand and Supply
- Demand
- Supply
CHAPTER 6: Elasticity
- Elasticity of Demand
- Elasticity of Supply
CHAPTER 7: Markets
- Labor Markets and Minimum Wage
- Taxes
- Markets for Prohibited Goods
CHAPTER 8: Utility
CHAPTER 9: Indifference Curves
CHAPTER 10: Budget Lines
CHAPTER 11: Costs, Scale, and Timing
- Short Run vs. Long Run
- Total, Average, and Marginal Costs
- Economies of Scale
CHAPTER 12: Market Structure
CHAPTER 13: Perfect Competition
CHAPTER 14: Monopoly
CHAPTER 15: Monopolistic Competition
CHAPTER 16: Oligopoly and Duopoly
CHAPTER 17: Factors of Production
- Demand and Supply For Factors
- Labor
- Capital
- Land
CHAPTER 18: Labor Markets
CHAPTER 19: Capital and Natural Resource Markets
- Capital
- Interest Rates
- Natural Resource Markets
CHAPTER 20: Uncertainty and Information
- Uncertainty
- Insurance
- Information
- Risk
CHAPTER 21: Distribution of Income and Wealth
CHAPTER 22: Market Failure
- Government Spending
- Public Goods
- Externalities
- Collective Action Problems
If there are other topics you'd like to see covered in the Online Microeconomics Textbook please contact me by using the feedback form.
Each Microeconomics textbook covers the core material in a different order. The order here is adapted from Parkin and Bade's text Economics but it should be fairly close to those in other Microeconomics texts.
Online Microeconomics Textbook
CHAPTER 1:What is Economics?CHAPTER 2:Production and Trade
- Production Possibility Frontier
- Gains From Trade and International Trade
CHAPTER 3: Economic Growth
CHAPTER 4: Opportunity Cost
CHAPTER 5: Demand and Supply
- Demand
- Supply
CHAPTER 6: Elasticity
- Elasticity of Demand
- Elasticity of Supply
CHAPTER 7: Markets
- Labor Markets and Minimum Wage
- Taxes
- Markets for Prohibited Goods
CHAPTER 8: Utility
CHAPTER 9: Indifference Curves
CHAPTER 10: Budget Lines
CHAPTER 11: Costs, Scale, and Timing
- Short Run vs. Long Run
- Total, Average, and Marginal Costs
- Economies of Scale
CHAPTER 12: Market Structure
CHAPTER 13: Perfect Competition
CHAPTER 14: Monopoly
CHAPTER 15: Monopolistic Competition
CHAPTER 16: Oligopoly and Duopoly
CHAPTER 17: Factors of Production
- Demand and Supply For Factors
- Labor
- Capital
- Land
CHAPTER 18: Labor Markets
CHAPTER 19: Capital and Natural Resource Markets
- Capital
- Interest Rates
- Natural Resource Markets
CHAPTER 20: Uncertainty and Information
- Uncertainty
- Insurance
- Information
- Risk
CHAPTER 21: Distribution of Income and Wealth
CHAPTER 22: Market Failure
- Government Spending
- Public Goods
- Externalities
- Collective Action Problems
If there are other topics you'd like to see covered in the Online Microeconomics Textbook please contact me by using the feedback form.