The economics you need

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The economic way of thinking -- 1.1 On the nature of economics and the importance of methodology -- 1.2 From economics to policy-making -- 1.3 Methodological individualism and the micro-macro divide -- 1.4 Time: statics, dynamics and uncertainty -- 1.5 Failures: social justice, transaction costs, externalities -- 1.6 Exchange, opportunity costs and surplus -- 1.7 Free lunches and the surplus -- 1.8 Summing up -- 2 The economics of consumption

The economic way of thinking -- The economics of consumption -- The economics of production and growth -- Cost theorizing and supply curves -- Competition and its enemies -- Taxation, regulation and factor markets -- Money and banking -- International trade -- Exchange rates -- On growth, poverty and crises