Real World Micro

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Real World Micro cover
Edition:
30th
Date of publication:
June 2023
ISBN:
978-1-939402-77-6
Price:
$42.50



Note: This is the table of contents for the latest (30th) edition of Real World Micro. If you are ordering a pdf of an earlier edition of this title, please ask your instructor for that edition's table of contents, and make sure you order your pdf using the URL your instructor gave you.

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Markets: Ideology and Reality
    • Introduction
    • 1.1 The Unreal Basis of Neoclassical Economics Al Campbell, Ann Davis, David Fields, Paddy Quick, Jared Ragusett, and Geoffrey Schneider
    • 1.2 What I Learned (and Didn't Learn) in Econ 100 Tim Koechlin
    • 1.3 Shaking the Invisible Hand Chris Tilly
    • 1.4 Pursuing Profits—Or Power? James K. Boyce
    • 1.5 Inequality and the Structure of Markets Arthur MacEwan
    • 1.6 Freedom, Equity, and Efficiency Alejandro Reuss
    • 1.7 Sharing the Wealth of the Commons Peter Barnes
    • 1.8 The Future of Work, Leisure, and Consumption An Interview with Juliet Schor
  • Chapter 2: Supply and Demand
    • Introduction
    • 2.1 Price Gouging: It’s Just Supply and Demand Marc Breslow
    • 2.2 The Economics of Residential Rent Control Stephen Barton
    • 2.3 Getting Up to Speed on the Minimum Wage John Miller
    • 2.4 Are Governments Economically Stupid in Failing to Suspend Patent Protection for Vaccines? Arthur MacEwan
    • 2.5 Leaky Governance: The Politics and Economics of Fuel Theft in Mexico Francisco J. Aldape
    • 2.6 Cryptocurrencies Will Not Liberate Us Hadas Thier
    • 2.6 Brewing Inequality Saurav Sarkar
  • Chapter 3: Consumers
    • Introduction
    • 3.1 The 800-Pound Ronald McDonald in the Room Helen Scharber
    • 3.2 Underbanked and Overcharged Deborah M. Figart
    • 3.3 Forced Arbitration Is Bad for Consumers Heidi Shierholz
    • 3.4 The Limits of Ethical Consumerism Marc Triller
    • 3.5 Campus Struggles Against Sweatshops Continue Sarah Blaskey and Phil Gasper
    • 3.6 Leveraging Financial Markets for Social Justice Doug Orr
  • Chapter 4: Firms, Production, and Profit Maximization
    • Introduction
    • 4.1 What Are Corporations? Alejandro Reuss
    • 4.2 If Corporations Are People, What Kind of People Are They? Geoff Schneider
    • 4.3 Control the Vampire Companies Jayati Ghosh
    • 4.4 Taylor's Digital Stopwatch Robert Ovetz
    • 4.5 What’s Good for Wal-Mart ... John Miller
    • 4.6 Boeing Hijacked by Shareholders and Execs! Marie Christine Duggan
  • Chapter 5: Market Failure I: Market Power
    • Introduction
    • 5.1 Is Small Beautiful? Is Bigger Better? Chris Tilly
    • 5.2 A Brief History of Mergers and Antitrust Policy Edward Herman
    • 5.3 Monopoly Everywhere Armağan Gezici
    • 5.4 Monopoly So Fragile: Container Ships Are Too Big to Sail Cory Doctorow
    • 5.5 Power, Wages, and Inequality Arthur MacEwan
    • 5.6 The Bankruptcy Games: Private Equity Case Studies Bill Barclay
    • 5.7 Caring by the Dollar: Nursing Homes, Private Equity, and Covid-19 Bill Barclay
    • 5.8 How 'Big Oil' Works the System and Keeps Winning Naomi Oreskes and Jeff Nesbit
  • Chapter 6: Market Failure II: Externalities
    • Introduction
    • 6.1 Why the Climate Crisis Is Also the Crisis of Capitalism Ying Chen And Güney Işikara
    • 6.2 Pricing the Priceless: Inside the Strange World of Cost–Benefit Analysis Lisa Heinzerling and Frank Ackerman
    • 6.3 Can We Afford a Stable Climate? Frank Ackerman
    • 6.4 Everything Is Connected with Everything Else Arthur MacEwan
    • 6.5 What Can We Learn from Agriculture? Arthur MacEwan
    • 6.6 Essential, but Treated as Expendable Lin Nelson
  • Chapter 7: Labor Markets
    • Introduction
    • 7.1 Can the Decline of Organized Labor Be Reversed? Arthur MacEwan
    • 7.2 Household Labor, Caring Labor, Unpaid Labor Nancy Folbre
    • 7.3 The Fight for $20 and a Union Marty Bennett
    • 7.4 Shut Up and Work! Zoe Sherman
    • 7.5 Wage Theft as a Business Model Saurav Sarkar
    • 7.6 Battling Starbucks Saurav Sarkar
    • 7.7 Putting Children to Work John Miller
  • Chapter 8: The Distribution of Income and Wealh
    • Introduction
    • 8.1 Geese, Golden Eggs, and Traps Chris Tilly
    • 8.2 The Rise of Income Inequality in the United States Alejandro Reuss
    • 8.3 "Equal Pay" Is Not So Equal John Miller
    • 8.4 Undervaluation Is a Certainty: Measuring Black Women’s Wage Gap An Interview with Michelle Holder
    • 8.5 The Undeserving Rich Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly
    • 8.6 Economic Inequality and Homelessness Arthur MacEwan
    • 8.7 Concentration of Stock Ownership Ed Ford
    • 8.8 Financialization and Inequality Arthur MacEwan
    • 8.9 The United States: Plutocracy or Democracy? Marianne Hill
    • 8.10 Stop Stock Buybacks! Erika Wills
  • Chapter 9: Taxation
    • Introduction
    • 9.1 Can Tax Cuts Really Increase Government Revenue? Ellen Frank
    • 9.2 The Great Tax-Cut Experiment Gerald Friedman
    • 9.3 The Optimal Tax John Miller
    • 9.4 Corporate Taxes: Less, Less, and Less Arthur MacEwan
    • 9.5 Taxing Unrealized Capital Gains Is Key to Undoing Tax Injustice John Miller
    • 9.6 Two "Bad" Tax Ideas Are Better than One John Miller
  • Chapter 10: Trade and Development
    • Introduction
    • 10.1 Comparative Advantage Ramaa Vasudevan
    • 10.2 The Globalization Clock Thomas Palley
    • 10.3 Globalization in Crisis John Miller
    • 10.4 Does U.S. Prosperity Depend on Exploitation? Arthur MacEwan
    • 10.5 Weaponizing Free Trade Agreements Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram
    • 10.6 SWIFT, the U.S. Dollar, and the Global Political Economy of Trade Bill Barclay
    • 10.7 Whatever Happened to Development? Jawied Nawabi
  • Contributors