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Sean Masaki Flynn, PhD, is an assistant professor of economics at Scripps College, where he also serves as the chairman of the economics department. Dr. Flynn has been a guest expert on NPR and has been interviewed for articles on Forbes.com. He's the coauthor of the world's best-selling economics textbook.

Introduction 1 Part1: Economics: The Science of How People Deal with Scarcity 5 Chapter 1: What Economics Is and Why You Should Care 7 Chapter 2: Cookies or Ice Cream? Exploring Consumer Choices 23 Chapter 3: Producing Stuff to Maximize Happiness 37 Part 2: Microeconomics: The Science of Consumer and Firm Behavior 59 Chapter 4: Supply and Demand Made Easy 61 Chapter 5: Introducing Homo Economicus, the Utility-Maximizing Consumer 87 Chapter 6: The Core of Capitalism: The Profit-Maximizing Firm 105 Chapter 7: Why Economists Love Free Markets and Competition 129 Chapter 8: Monopolies: Bad Behavior When Competition Is Lacking 155 Chapter 9: Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition: Middle Grounds 177 Part 3: Applying the Theories of Microeconomics 195 Chapter 10: Property Rights and Wrongs 197 Chapter 11: Asymmetric Information and Public Goods 209 Chapter 12: Internet Economics: Networks and Platforms 225 Chapter 13: Behavioral Economics: Investigating Irrationality 245 Part 4: Macroeconomics: The Science of Economic Growth and Stability 263 Chapter 14: How Economists Measure the Macroeconomy 265 Chapter 15: Inflation Frustration: Why More Money Isn't Always Good 285 Chapter 16: Understanding Why Recessions Happen 303 Chapter 17: Fighting Recessions with Monetary and Fiscal Policy 329 Chapter 18: Grasping Origins and Effects of Financial Crises 359 Part 5: The Part of Tens 369 Chapter 19: Ten Seductive Economic Fallacies 371 Chapter 20: Ten Economic Ideas to Hold Dear 379 Chapter 21: Ten (Or So) Super-Famous Economists 383 Chapter 22: Ten (Or So) Recent Nobel Laureates in Economics 391 Glossary 397 Index 405