Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium: An Overview3. The Measurement of Elasticities4. Consumer Demand Theory5. Advanced Topics in Consumer Demand Theory6. Theory of Production7. Costs of Production8. Price and Output under Perfect Competition9. Price Output under Pure Monopoly10. Price and Output under Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly11. Recent and Advanced Topics in Market Structure12. Game Theory and Oligopolistic Behavior13. Input Pricing and Employment14. General Equilibrium and Welfare Economics15. The Economics of Information

About the Author

Distinguished Professor of Economics and Department Chairman at Fordham University in New York. He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences and Chairman of the Economics Section. Professor Salvatore is consultant to the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Economic Policy Institute, and several banks and international corporations. He received many awards including the City University of New York's "Achievement Award." Professor Salvatore has published 34 books, among which International Economics, 6/e (Prentice Hall, 1998) is the leading international text in the United States. Professor Salvatore has published over 100 articles in leading economics journals and has given more than 150 lectures around the world and was Visiting Professor at the Universities of Vienna, Rome, and Trieste and at the Central Bank of China. He is a regular contributor to several leading financial newspapers.