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20. Appendix: The NCAA Cartel 21. Study Guide for Chapter 23 22. Chapter Summary 23. Questions for Chapter 23 24. Answers for Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Factor Markets 1. Demand for a Factor 2. Marginal Revenue Product 3. Marginal Factor Cost 4. Profit-Maximization Rule for Employing Factors 5. Demand Curve for a Factor 6. Determinants of Factor Demand 7. Value of the Marginal Product 8. Cost-Minimizing Combination of Factors 9. Elasticity of Demand for Labor 10. Labor Supply Curve for a Perfectly Competitive Employer 11. Labor Supply Curve in a Particular Labor Market 12. Determinants of Labor Supply 13. Differences in Wage Rates 14. Screening Devices 15. Appendix: Book Review – “Moneyball” 16. Appendix: Think Like an Economist – The New CEO 17. Appendix: Think Like an Economist – How to Treat Employees 18. Study Guide for Chapter 24 19. Chapter Summary 20. Questions for Chapter 24 21. Answers for Chapter 24 22. Answers to Think Like an Economist Chapter 25 Labor Unions 1. Types of Labor Unions 2. Decline in Union Membership 3. Demand Curve for a Union 4. Union Goals 5. Closed Shop 6. Union Shop 7. Right-to-work Laws 8. Collective Bargaining 9. Monopsony 10. Profit-Maximization for a Monopsony 11. The Union and the Monopsony 12. Unions and Wages 13. Unions and Productivity 14. Largest Labor Unions 15. Study Guide for Chapter 25 16. Chapter Summary 17. Questions for Chapter 25 18. Answers for Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Interest, Present Value, Rent, and Profit 1. Interest 2. The Loanable Funds Market 3. Supply of Loanable Funds 4. Private Demand for Loanable Funds 5. Changes in the Demand for Loanable Funds 6. Interest Rates Vary 7. Real Interest Rate 8. The Time Value of Money 9. Present Value 10. Economic Rent 11. Functions of Economic Rent 12. Economic Profit 13. Sources of Economic Profit 14. Profit as a Signal 15. Appendix: Book Review – “Nudge” 16. Appendix: Present Value Table 17. Study Guide for Chapter 26 18. Chapter Summary 19. Questions for Chapter 26 20. Answers for Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Market Failure 1. Economic Efficiency Rule 2. Market Failure 3. Externalities 4. Private Market Equilibrium 5. External Benefit 6. External Cost 7. Controlling Externalities 8. Internalizing Externalities 9. Government Regulation of Externalities 10. Pollution Control 11. Public Goods 12. Common Goods 13. Asymmetric Information 14. Adverse Selection 15. Moral Hazard 16. Study Guide for Chapter 27 17. Chapter Summary 18. Questions for Chapter 27 19. Answers for Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Public Choice and Government Failure 1. Public Choice Theory 2. Government Failure 3. Voters 4. Low Voter Turnout 5. Rational Ignorance 6. Candidates and the Median Voter Model 7. Elected Officials FOR REVIEW ONLY - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION Contents - 7 Table of Contents
8. Elected Officials and Short Run Focus 9. Elected Officials and Special-Interest Groups 10. The Influence of Special-Interest Groups 11. A Congressional District as a Special- Interest Group 12. Government Bureaus 13. Other Sources of Government Failure 14. Appendix: Book Review – “The Myth of the Rational Voter” 15. Study Guide for Chapter 28 16. Chapter Summary 17. Questions for Chapter 28 18. Answers for Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Government Regulation of Business 1. Attributes of Private Markets 2. Government Regulation of Natural Monopoly 3. Deadweight Loss of Unregulated Natural Monopoly 4. Government Subsidy to Regulated Natural Monopoly 5. Problems with Regulating Natural Monopoly 6. Public Interest Theory of Regulation 7. Capture Theory of Regulation 8. Public Choice Theory of Regulation 9. Costs of Regulations 10. Deregulation 11. Appendix: Antitrust Law 12. Sherman Act 13. Clayton Act 14. Federal Trade Commission Act 15. Study Guide for Chapter 29 16. Chapter Summary 17. Questions for Chapter 29 18. Answers for Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Agriculture and Health Care 1. Resources Devoted to Agriculture 2. Good News about U.S. Agriculture 3. The Long Run Problem for Farmers 4. The Short Run Problem for Farmers 5. Traditional Farm Policies 6. Price Supports 7. Target Prices 8. The FAIR Act of 1996 9. The Farm Acts of 2002, 2008, and 2014 10. Some Comments on the Government’s Agricultural Policies 11. Health Care: Two Primary Concerns 12. Overall Health Care Spending 13. Factors Contributing to Increased Health Care Spending 14. Distribution of Health Care 15. Characteristics of the Uninsured 16. The Basic Goal for Health Care 17. Difficulties in Achieving Basic Goal 18. Options for Health Care Reform 19. National Health Insurance 20. Consumer-Driven Health Care 21. Affordable Care Act 22. The Goal is Good Health 23. Appendix: Adverse Selection and the Individual Mandate 24. Appendix: Future Growth in Health Insurance Exchanges 25. Study Guide for Chapter 30 26. Chapter Summary 27. Questions for Chapter 30 28. Answers for Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Income Distribution and Redistribution 1. Some Income Distribution Facts 2. Economic Mobility 3. The Lorenz Curve 4. Overstating the Degree of Income Inequality 5. Distribution of Wealth 6. Overstating the Inequality of Wealth Distribution 7. Causes of Continuing Income Inequality 8. Standards of Income Distribution 9. Income Redistribution 10. Ideal Income Redistribution 11. Actual Income Redistribution 12. Negative Income Tax 13. Poverty 14. Poverty and Economic Mobility 15. Four Keys to Achieving Financial Security 16. Appendix: Income Inequality around the World 17. Gini Coefficient 18. Appendix: An Analogy for the Increasing Income Inequality 19. Study Guide for Chapter 31 20. Chapter Summary 21. Questions for Chapter 31 22. Answers for Chapter 31 Glossary Index FOR REVIEW ONLY - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION Table of Contents Contents - 8
Page 2 and 3: PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS JEFF HOLT S
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Chapter 7 Classical Economic Theory
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Low Mortgage Interest Rates Mortgag
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underproduction is the amount that
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