Part 1 : An introduction to American capitalism -- The nature and method of economics -- An introduction to the economizing problem -- Pure capitalism and the circular flow of wealth -- The mechanics of individual prices: demand and supply -- The five fundamental questions and the price system -- Mixed capitalism and the economic functions of government -- The facts of American capitalism: households -- The facts of American capitalism: businesses -- The facts of American capitalism government -- Part 2 : National income, employment, and fiscal policy -- National income accounting -- The business cycle: unemployment and inflation -- The background and analytical tools of employment theory -- The equilibrium levels of output, employment, and income -- Fiscal policy: economic and noneconomic problems -- Part 3 : Money, monetary policy, and economic stability -- Money and banking in American capitalism -- How banks create money -- The federal reserve banks and monetary policy -- Part 4 : American economic growth: achievements, problems, and policies -- American economic growth -- Growth in American capitalism: costs, problems, and policies -- Part 5 : The economics of the firm and resource allocation -- The market structures of American capitalism -- Demand, supply, and elasticity: some applications -- Further topics in the theory of consumer demand -- Supply and the costs of production -- Price and output determination: pure competition -- Price and output determination: pure monopoly -- Price and output determination: monopolistic competition -- Price and output determination: oligopoly -- Production and the demand for economic resources -- the pricing and employment of resources wage determination -- The pricing and employment of resources: rent, interest, and profits -- General equilibrium: the price system and its operation in American capitalism -- Part 6 : Current domestic economic problems -- The monopoly problem: the social control of industry -- American agriculture: the farm problem -- Labor unions and collective bargaining -- The economics of inequality and insecurity -- The social imbalance controversy -- Part 7 : International economics, the underdeveloped countries, and the Soviet economic challenge -- The breakdown and reconstruction of international trade -- The underdeveloped countries: a special problem in economic growth -- The economic challenge of Soviet Russia

1. Economics