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CONTENTS

PREFACE

XXXV

PART 1 INTRODUCTION 1

CHAPTER 1 MODERN ECONOMICS 3

INTERNET CONNECTION: Tracking the Digital

Economy 6

What Is Economics? 6

Trade-offs 7

Incentives 8

THINKING LIKE AN ECONOMIST: Incentives and

the Price of AOL 9

Exchange 10

INTERNET CONNECTION: Auction Sites 11

Information 13

Distribution 14

The Three Major Markets 15

Keeping Track of Tricky Terms 16

Microeconomics and Macroeconomics: The Two

Branches of Economics 17

The Science of Economics 18

Discovering and Interpreting Relationships 18

Causation and Correlation 19

Why Economists Disagree 19

REVIEW AND PRACTICE 21

CONTENTS

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