Economics for
Dummies
Table of Contents
Chapter 1:
What Does Economics Study, and Why Should You Care?
Chapter 2: Cookies or Ice Cream?
Tracking Consumer Choices
Chapter 3: Producing the Right
Stuff the Right Way to Maximize Human Happiness
Chapter 4: Measuring the
Macroeconomy: How Economists Keep Track of Everything
Chapter 5: Inflation Frustration:
Why More Money Isn't Always a Good Thing
Chapter 6: Understanding Why
Recessions Happen
Chapter 7: Fighting Recessions With
Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Chapter 8: Supply and Demand Made
Easy
Chapter 9: Getting to Know
Homo Economicus, the Utility Maximizing Consumer
Chapter 10: The Core of Capitalism: The
Profit-Mazimizing Firm
Chapter 11: Why Economists Love
Free Markets and Competition
Chapter 12: Monopolies: How Badly
Would You Behave if You Had No Competition
Chapter 13: Oligopoly and
Monopolistic Competition: Middle Grounds
Chapter 14: Property Rights and
Wrongs
Chapter 15: Market Failure:
Asymmetric Information and Public Goods
Chapter 16: Ten (Or So) Famous Economists
Chapter 17: Ten Seductive Economic
Fallacies
Chapter 18: Ten Economic Ideas to
Hold Dear
