Introduction: economic models ; The mathematics of optimization -- Choice and demand: Preferences and utility ; Utility maximization and choice ; Income and substitution effects ; Demand relationships among goods -- Production and supply: Production functions ; Cost functions ; Profit maximization -- Competitive markets: The partial equilibrium competitive model ; Applied competitive analysis ; General equilibrium and welfare -- Models of imperfect competition: Models of monopoly ; Traditional models of imperfect competition ; Game theory models of pricing -- Pricing in input markets: Labor markets ; Capital markets -- Uncertainty, information, and externalities: Uncertainty and risk aversion ; The economics of information ; Externalities and public goods -- Political economics

1. Microeconomics