Part I: Introduction -- 1. Ten lessons from economics -- 2. Thinking like an economist -- 3. Interdependence and the gains from trade -- Part II: Supply and demand I: How markets work -- 4. The market forces of supply and demand -- 5. Elasticity and its application -- 6. Supply, demand and government policies -- Part III: Supply and demand II: Markets and welfare -- 7. Consumers, producers and the efficiency of markets -- 8. Application: the costs of taxation -- 9. Application: international trade -- Part IV: The economics of the public sector -- 10. Externalities -- 11. Public goods and common resources -- 12. The design of the tax system -- Part V: Firm behaviour and the organisation of industry -- 13. The costs of production -- 14. Firms in competitive markets -- 15. Monopoly -- 16. Business strategy -- 17. Competition policy -- 18. Monopolistic competition -- Part VI: The economics of labour markets -- 19. The markets for the factors of production -- 20. Earnings, unions and discrimination -- 21. Income inequality and poverty -- Part VII: Topics for further study -- 22. The theory of consumer choice -- 23. Frontiers of microeconomics.

Part VIII: The data of macroeconomics -- 24. Measuring a nation's income -- 25. Measuring the cost of living -- Part IX: The real economy in the long run -- 26. Production and growth -- 27. Saving, investment and the financial system -- 28. The natural rate of unemployment -- Part X: Money and prices in the long run -- 29. The monetary system -- 30. Inflation: its causes and costs -- Part XI: The macroeconomics of open economies -- 31. Open-economy macroeconomics: basic concepts -- 32. A macroeconomic theory of the open economy -- Part XII: Short-run economic fluctuations -- 33. Aggregate demand and aggregate supply -- 34. The influence of monetary and fiscal policy on aggregate demand -- 35. The short-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment -- 36. Global Financial Crisis 2008 and beyond -- Part XIII: Final thoughts -- 37. Five debates over macroeconomic policy.