Basic Concepts
Benefit-Cost Analysis by Paul R. Portney
Demand by David R. Henderson
Efficiency by Paul Heyne
Information by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Insurance by Richard Zeckhauser
Liability by W. Kip Viscusi
Marginalism by Steven E. Rhoads
Microeconomics by Arnold C. Harberger
Natural Resources by William J. Baumol and Sue Anne Batey Blackman
Opportunity Cost by David R. Henderson
Political Behavior by Richard L. Stroup
Population by Ronald Demos Lee
Poverty in the United States by Isabel V. Sawhill
Prisoners' Dilemma by Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff
Profits by Lester C. Thurow
Property Rights by Armen A. Alchian
Public Goods and Externalities by Tyler Cowen
Research and Development by David M. Levy
Spatial Economics by Wolfgang Kasper
Supply by Al Ehrbar
The Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin
Unintended Consequences by Rob Norton
The Marketplace
Advertising by George Bittlingmayer
Brand Names by Benjamin Klein
Competition by Jack High
Disaster and Recovery by Jack Hirshleifer
Entrepreneurship by Mark Casson
Free Market by Murray N. Rothbard
Game Theory by Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff
Monopoly by George J. Stigler
Discrimination and Labor Issues
Comparable Worth by June Ellenoff O'Neill
Conscription by Christopher Jehn
Discrimination by Linda Gorman
Gender Gap by Claudia Goldin
Human Capital by Gary S. Becker
Immigration by George J. Borjas
Job Safety by W. Kip Viscusi
Labor Unions by Morgan O. Reynolds
Minimum Wages by Linda Gorman
Wages and Working Conditions by Stanley Lebergott
Corporations and Financial Markets
Asset-Backed Securities by Phillip L. Zweig
Bonds by Clifford W. Smith
Corporate Debt by Annette Poulsen
Corporations by Robert Hessen
Efficient Capital Markets by Steven L. Jones and Jeffry M. Netter
Futures and Options Markets by Gregory J. Millman
Insider Trading by David D. Haddock
Interest by Paul Heyne
Junk Bonds by Glenn Yago
Pensions by Henry McMillan
Present Value by David R. Henderson
Program Trading by Dean Furbush
Stock Prices by Jeremy J. Siegel
Takeovers and Leveraged Buyouts by Gregg A. Jarrell
The Economics of Special Markets
Agricultural Price Supports by Robert L. Thompson
Computer Industry by George Gilder
Crime by David D. Friedman
Defense by Benjamin Zycher
Drug Lag by Daniel Henninger
Energy by Robert A. Leone
Health Care Industry by Patricia M. Danzon
Health Insurance by John C. Goodman
Housing by Peter D. Salins
Law and Economics by David D. Friedman
OPEC by Benjamin Zycher
Public Schools by John E. Chubb
Sportometrics by Robert D. Tollison
Sports by Gerald W. Scully
Telecommunications by John Haring
Issues in Economic History
Industrial Revolution and the Standard of Living by Clark Nardinelli
Wages and Working Conditions by Stanley Lebergott
Economics of Legal Issues
Antitrust by Fred S. McChesney
Crime by David D. Friedman
Law and Economics by David D. Friedman
Liability by W. Kip Viscusi
Economic Regulation
Agricultural Price Supports by Robert L. Thompson
Airline Deregulation by Alfred E. Kahn
Antitrust by Fred S. McChesney
Drug Lag by Daniel Henninger
Electric Utility Regulation by Robert J. Michaels
Industrial Concentration by Thomas W. Gilligan
Minimum Wages by Linda Gorman
Monopoly by George J. Stigler
Natural Gas Regulation by Robert J. Michaels
Occupational Licensing by S. David Young
Patents by David R. Henderson
Pollution Controls by Robert W. Crandall
Price Controls by Hugh Rockoff
Rent Control by Walter Block
Riskless Society by Aaron Wildavsky
Telecommunications by John Haring
Trucking Deregulation by Thomas Gale Moore
Environmental Regulation
Environmentalism, A Preface by David R. Henderson
Environmentalism, Free-Market by Richard Stroup
Greenhouse Effect by Thomas C. Schelling
Pollution Controls by Robert W. Crandall
Recycling by Jane S. Shaw
Taxes
Taxation, A Preface by Joseph J. Minarik
Capital Gains Taxes by Joseph J. Cordes
Consumption Tax by Al Ehrbar
Corporate Taxation by Rob Norton
Marginal Tax Rates by Alan Reynolds
Negative Income Tax by Jodie T. Allen
Progressive Taxes by Joel B. Slemrod
Social Security by Carolyn L. Weaver
Unemployment Insurance by David R. Francis
Economic Policy
Benefit-Cost Analysis by Paul R. Portney
Federal Budget by John F. Cogan
Federal Debt by Robert Eisner
Federal Deficit by Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Fiscal Policy by David N. Weil
Government Spending by Gordon Tullock
Industrial Policy by Richard B. McKenzie
Monetary Policy by James Tobin
Phillips Curve by Kevin D. Hoover
Political Behavior by Richard L. Stroup
Privatization by Madsen Pirie
Reaganomics by William A. Niskanen
Redistribution of Income by Dwight R. Lee
Social Security by Carolyn L. Weaver
Unemployment Insurance by David R. Francis
Macroeconomics
Business Cycles by Christina D. Romer
Distribution of Income by Frank Levy
Economic Growth by Paul M. Romer
Forecasting and Econometric Models by Saul H. Hymans
Great Depression by Robert J. Samuelson
Gross Domestic Product by Lincoln Anderson
Hyperinflation by Michael K. Salemi
Inflation by David Ranson
Investment by Alan J. Auerbach
Monetary Policy by James Tobin
Phillips Curve by Kevin D. Hoover
Productivity by Sylvia Nasar
Recessions by Geoffrey H. Moore
Saving by Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Unemployment by Lawrence H. Summers
Money and Banking
Bank Runs by George G. Kaufman
Competing Money Supplies by Lawrence H. White
Deposit Insurance by George G. Kaufman
Federal Reserve System by Manuel H. Johnson
Gold Standard by Michael D. Bordo
Monetary Policy by James Tobin
Money Supply by Anna J. Schwartz
Savings and Loan Crisis by Bert Ely
International Economics
Balance of Payments by Herbert Stein
Competitiveness by Robert Z. Lawrence
Exchange Rates by Paul Krugman
Foreign Investment in the United States by Mack Ott
Free Trade by Alan S. Blinder
Free Trade Agreements and Customs Unions by Douglas A. Irwin
Mercantilism by Laura LaHaye
Protectionism by Jagdish Bhagwati
Sanctions by Kimberly Ann Elliott and Gary Clyde Hufbauer
Economies Outside the United States
Capital Flight by Darryl McLeod
Eastern Europe by David Lipton
European Economic Community by Barry Eichengreen
German Economic "Miracle" by David R. Henderson
Japan and the Myth of MITI by David R. Henderson
Perestroika by Marshall I. Goldman
Third World Debt by Kenneth Rogoff
Third World Economic Development by Clive Crook
Economic Systems
Apartheid by Thomas W. Hazlett
Capitalism by Robert Hessen
Fascism by Sheldon Richman
Free Market by Murray N. Rothbard
Socialism by Robert Heilbroner
Schools of Economic Thought
Austrian Economics by Deborah L. Walker
Keynesian Economics by Alan S. Blinder
Marxism by David L. Prychitko
Monetarism by Allan H. Meltzer
Neoclassical Economics by E. Roy Weintraub
New Classical Macroeconomics by Robert King
New Keynesian Economics by N. Gregory Mankiw
Public Choice Theory by Jane S. Shaw
Rational Expectations by Thomas J. Sargent
Supply-Side Economics by James D. Gwartney
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