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Intro -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Cabbie's Tale -- Chapter 2: Singapore Past and Present -- Chapter 3: Singapore's Healthcare Supremacy -- Chapter 4: America's Healthcare Humiliation in an International Perspective -- Chapter 5: What We Could Do If We Copied Singapore -- Chapter 6: Why Is the US Healthcare System Doing So Badly? -- Chapter 7: Provoking Profligacy with Low Out-of-Pocket Costs -- Chapter 8: How "Single-Payer" Systems Spend Less Than We Do -- Chapter 9: Empowering Prudence with First-Party Payments -- Chapter 10: The Origins of America's Employment-Based Health Insurance System -- Chapter 11: How to Engineer Low-Cost Health Insurance -- Chapter 12: Visiting Singapore's Hospitals and Clinics -- Chapter 13: MediSave and the Miraculous 3Ms -- Chapter 14: MediShield and the Right Incentives -- Chapter 15: MediShield Encourages Participation and Fairness with Age-Rated Insurance -- Chapter 16: MediFund and Direct Subsidies: Singapore's Amazing Healthcare Safety Net -- Chapter 17: Singapore's Multiple Ward Classes: Healthcare, Not Hotels -- Chapter 18: Pharmaceuticals in Singapore -- Chapter 19: The 3Ms Dominate Incentives, Not Payments -- Chapter 20: MediShield Life and the Future of Singapore's Healthcare System -- Chapter 21: The State of Indiana's Consumer-Driven Healthcare Plan -- Chapter 22: RAND and Oregon: Slashing Spending without Hurting Health -- Chapter 23: Why Healthcare Spending Can Decline without Hurting Health Outcomes -- Chapter 24: P, Q, and Big Savings for You -- Chapter 25: You Have to Fund People's HSAs for Them -- Chapter 26: We Must Rescue the Poor from Medicaid -- Chapter 27: Visiting the Free Market Medical Association -- Chapter 28: My Proposal for Reforming the US Healthcare System -- Chapter 29: Help Defeat the Special Interests.

AbstractThe larger a closed‐end fund's premium over its portfolio value, the more intensely it is sold short. This behavior should reduce mispricings. However, short selling affects neither the observed rate at which premia revert to fundamental values nor the rate of return on a fund's shares. This apparent contradiction can be explained as follows: short selling does reduce prices, but the effect is impounded into prices by the time short positions are tabulated by the NYSE each month. Consequently, the monthly short selling data do not predict future price movements.

"Welcome to the 23rd edition of Economics, America's most innovative-and popular-economics textbook. We are pleased to present faculty and students with comprehensive revisions, insightful new content, and significant improvements to both our online learning system and our industry-leading ancillary materials. Significant Content Updates The financial crisis and the subsequent slow recovery increased both student and faculty demand for principles-level content geared toward explaining directly and intuitively why markets and governments fail-sometimes spectacularly-in delivering optimal social outcomes. To satisfy that demand, our presentation of market failures, government failure, and public choice theory has been significantly restructured in Chapters 4 and 5 to allow students to quickly absorb the key lessons regarding externalities, public goods provision, voting paradoxes, the special interest effect, and other problems that hinder either markets or governments from achieving optimal social outcomes"--

"Welcome to the 23rd edition of Economics, America's most innovative-and popular-economics textbook. The financial crisis and the subsequent slow recovery increased both student and faculty demand for principles-level content geared toward explaining directly and intuitively why markets and governments fail-sometimes spectacularly-in delivering optimal social outcomes. To satisfy that demand, our presentation of market failures, government failure, and public choice theory has been significantly restructured in Chapters 4 and 5 to allow students to quickly absorb the key lessons regarding externalities, public goods provision, voting paradoxes, the special interest effect, and other problems that hinder either markets or governments from achieving optimal social outcomes."

Preface -- Introduction to economics and the economy -- Limits, alternatives, and choices -- The market system and the circular flow -- Price, quantity, and efficiency -- Demand, supply, and market equilibrium -- Market failures: public goods and externalities -- Government's role and government failure -- Consumer behavior -- Elasticity -- Utility maximization -- Behavioral economics -- Microeconomics of product markets -- Businesses and the costs of production -- Pure competition in the short run -- Pure competition in the long run -- Pure monopoly -- Monopolistic competition and oligopoly -- Microeconomics of resource markets and government -- The demand for resources -- Wage determination -- Rent, interest, and profit -- Natural resource and energy economics -- Public finance: expenditures and taxes -- Microeconomic issues and policies -- Antitrust policy and regulation -- Agriculture: economics and policy -- Income inequality, poverty, and discrimination -- Health care -- Immigration -- International economics -- International trade -- The balance of payments, exchange rates, and trade deficits -- Glossary

Introduction to economics and the economy -- Limits, alternatives, and choices -- The market system and the circular flow -- Price, quantity, and efficiency -- Demand, supply, and market equilibrium -- Market failures : public goods and externalities -- Government's role and government failure -- Consumer behavior -- Elasticity -- Utility maximization -- Behavioral economics -- Microeconomics of product markets -- Businesses and the costs of production -- Pure competition in the short run -- Pure competition in the long run -- Pure monopoly -- Monopolistic competition and oligopoly -- Microeconomics of resource markets and government -- The demand for resources -- Wage determination -- Rent, interest, and profit -- Natural resource and energy economics -- Public finance : expenditures and taxes -- Microeconomic issues and policies -- Antitrust policy and regulation -- Agriculture : economics and policy -- Income inequality, poverty, and discrimination -- Health care -- Immigration -- Gdp, growth, and instability -- An introduction to macroeconomics -- Measuring domestic output and national income -- Economic growth -- Business cycles, unemployment, and inflation -- Macroeconomic models and fiscal policy -- Basic macroeconomic relationships -- The aggregate expenditures model -- Aggregate demand and aggregate supply -- Fiscal policy, deficits, and debt -- Money, banking, and monetary policy -- Money, banking, and financial institutions -- Money creation -- Interest rates and monetary policy -- Financial economics -- Extensions and issues -- Extending the analysis of aggregate supply -- Current issues in macro theory and policy -- International economics -- International trade -- The balance of payments, exchange rates, and trade deficits -- Glossary -- Index