pt. 1. Introduction: markets and prices -- Preliminaries -- The basics of supply and demand -- pt. 2. Producers, consumers, and competitive markets -- Consumer behavior -- Individual and market demand -- Uncertainty and consumer behavior -- Production -- The cost of production -- Profit maximization and competitive supply -- The analysis of competitive markets -- pt. 3. Market structure and competitive strategy -- Market power: monopoly and monopsony -- Pricing with market power -- Monopolistic competition and oligopoly -- Game theory and competitive strategy -- Markets for factor inputs -- Investment, time, and capital markets -- pt. 4. Information, market failure, and the role of government -- General equilibrium and economic efficiency -- Markets with asymmetric information -- Externalities and public goods.