Real World Micro

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Real World Micro cover
Edition:
31st
Date of publication:
June 2024
ISBN:
978-1-939402-87-5
Price:
$47.50



Note: This is the table of contents for the latest (31st) 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 Inequality and the Structure of Markets Arthur MacEwan
    • 1.5 Freedom, Equity, and Efficiency Alejandro Reuss
    • 1.6 Sharing the Wealth of the Commons Peter Barnes
    • 1.7 Why and How the Economics Discipline Must Change Jayati Ghosh
  • 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 Brewing Inequality: How the GLobal Tea Trade Works Suarav Sarkar
    • 2.6 Mixing Oil and Water Bill Barclay
  • Chapter 3: Consumers
    • Introduction
    • 3.1 The 800-Pound Ronald McDonald in the Room Helen Scharber
    • 3.2 Forced Arbitration Is Bad for Consumers Heidi Shierholz
    • 3.3 The Limits of Ethical Consumerism Marc Triller
    • 3.4 Leveraging Financial Markets for Social Justice Doug Orr
    • 3.5 After Horror, Change? John Miller
    • 3.6 The U.S. Corporations Profiting from the Israeli Occupation Nick French
    • 3.7 The Future of Work, Leisure, and Consumption An Interview with Juliet Schor
  • 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 Pursuing Profits, or Power? James K. Boyce
    • 4.4 “Free” Labor and Unequal Freedom of Expression Zoe Sherman
    • 4.5 Control the Vampire Companies Jayati Ghosh
    • 4.6 Taylor's Digital Stopwatch Robert Ovetz
    • 4.7 What’s Good for Wal-Mart ... John Miller
    • 4.8 Boeing Hijacked by Shareholders and Execs! Marie Christine Duggan
    • 4.9 Silicon Valley Fractures James M. Cypher
  • 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 How 'Big Oil' Works the System and Keeps Winning Naomi Oreskes and Jeff Nesbit
    • 5.6 The Landlord Lobby Fights Dirty Sam Knight
  • 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 Inequality and Climate Change Arthur MacEwan
    • 6.6 Essential, but Treated as Expendable Lin Nelson
  • Chapter 7: Labor Markets
    • Introduction
    • 7.1 What Is the State of Organized Labor? Arthur MacEwan
    • 7.2 Household Labor, Caring Labor, Unpaid Labor Nancy Folbre
    • 7.3 Wage Theft as a Business Model Saurav Sarkar
    • 7.4 Battling Starbucks Saurav Sarkar
    • 7.5 Putting Children to Work John Miller
    • 7.6 Forced Labor vs. Forced Idleness Tyler Bowman
    • 7.7 One Year After the Nurses’ Strike, What Comes Next? Nick French
    • 7.8 A Night in the Life of an Amazon Warehouse Worker Rose Baker
  • 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 Economic Inequality and Homelessness Arthur MacEwan
    • 8.6 Concentration of Stock Ownership Ed Ford
    • 8.7 Death and Inequality Arthur MacEwan
    • 8.8 Who Benefits from U.S. Economic Expansions? Ed Ford
    • 8.9 Income, Wealth, and All That Bill Barclay
    • 8.10 Race Inequality, Class Inequality Arthur MacEwan
    • 8.11 The Heavy, Unequal Burden of Student Debt Nick French
  • Chapter 9: Taxation
    • Introduction
    • 9.1 The Great Tax-Cut Experiment Gerald Friedman
    • 9.2 The Optimal Tax John Miller
    • 9.3 Corporate Taxes: Less, Less, and Less Arthur MacEwan
    • 9.4 Taxing Unrealized Capital Gains Is Key to Undoing Tax Injustice John Miller
    • 9.6 Millionaires’ Tax Reality Back at You John Miller
    • 9.7 The Potential of Tax Reform in Latin America C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • 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 China’s Dangerous Inflection Point Bill Barclay
    • 10.8 Whatever Happened to Development? Jawied Nawabi
  • Contributors