Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Individual Preferences and Consumption Choice Decisions -- Chapter 3. An Individual's Demand Schedule -- Chapter 4. Market Demand and Its Measurement -- Chapter 5. Firm Behavior and Market Environments -- Chapter 6. Production Technology and Input Choice Decision -- Chapter 7. Cost as a Basis for Decision -- Chapter 8. Linear Programming As an Aid to Decision Making -- Chapter 9. Market Equilibrium and price and Production Stability -- Chapter 10. Pricing and Production Decision in Pure Competition -- Chapter 11. Pricing and Production Decisions in Monopoly -- Chapter 12. Pricing and Production Decisions in Monopolistically Competitive Market Setting -- Chapter 13. Oligopoly Market Setting -- Chapter 14. Markets for Inputs to the Productive Process: Perfect Competition -- Chapter 15. Markets for Inputs to the Productive Process: Imperfect Competition -- Chapter 16. Investment by the Firm, Capital Budgeting, and Financial Markets -- Chapter 17. General Equilibrium -- Chapter 18. Welfare Economics and Group Choice.

This text emphasizes the development of microeconomic theory with a view to its applications. The subject is approaches both analytically and empirically to use effectively the complementary qualities of microeconomic theory and practical research in an essentially information-building manner.