Microeconomics
Chapter 3 Supply and Demand
SEE MACRO
Chapter 20 Elasticity
"Smoke Signals", NY Times, January 10, 1999
Economics-Annual Editions 02/03, page 28.
"As Gasoline Prices Soar, American Resist Major Cuts in Consumption",
Wall Street Journal, May 1, 2006.
Chapter 22 Costs
"Entree Economics", Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2000,
Economics-Annual Editions 02/03, page 30.
"Innovations Golden Goose", Economist, December 12, 2003
"Natural-Gas costs Hurt US Firms", Wall Street Journal, 02/17/04.
"Rising Labor Costs at Work in Profit Slump", Wall Street Journal,
September 27, 2004
Chapter 24 Monopoly
"Is Big Bad?", LA Times, April 9, 2000,
Economics-Annual Editions 02/03, page 40
"Unsettled Monopoly", Barron's, 10/10/01.
"New York Cabs, Taken For a Ride", Economist, April 24, 2004.
"Mergers and Dominant Firms", Economist, May 1, 2008
Chapter 25 Oligopoly
"As Mergers Get Bigger, So Does The Danger", NY
Times, February 13, 2000, Economics-Annual
Editions 02/03, page 42.
"OPEC is Back in the Driver's Seat", Fortune, July 9, 2001,
Economics-Annual Editions 02/03, page 44.
"Comcast-ATT Broadband Deal Cements Rise of Cable Oligopoly",
Wall Street Journal, 12/21/01.
"Steel Sectors Request for Bailout Stirs Debate on Industrial Policy",
Wall Street Journal, 12/06/01.
"Steel in China- Lovingly Touched by Mao", Economist, 01/31/02.
"Merger-Linked Import Limits Draw Fire From Steel Customers",
Wall Street Journal, 12/06/01.
"Bush Imposes Tariffs on Steel Imports, Buying Time for Troubled US
Industry", Wall Street Journal, 03/06/02.
"Oligopolies are on the Rise as the Urge to Merge Grows",
Wall Street Journal, 02/05/02.
"Cartels: Fixing for a Fight", Economist, 04/20/02.
Chapter 28 & 34 Wage Determination and Income Inequality
"Debating the Minimum Wage", The Economist, February 3, 2001
Economics-Annual Editions 02/03, page 73.
"Europe's Prized Leisure Life Becomes Economic Obstacle",
Wall Street Journal, 08/08/02.
"US Can Look Toward Europe for Warnings on Work, Taxes",
Wall Street Journal, 10/20/03.
"Lesson in India: Not Every Job Translates Overseas", Wall Street Journal, 3/3/04.
"Pushing a Different Sort of Button", Economist, October 28, 2004.
"Above the Minimum", Region Focus, The Federal Reserve Bank
of Richmond, Fall 2004.
"Bridging The (Gender Wage) Gap", Fast Company, January 2005.
"Wage Gap Widens, Especially in Cities", Regional Economist, St Louis Federal Reserve Bank
January 2005.
"What's Driving Wage Inequality?" Economic Quarterly, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Summer 2005.
"Sex Changes", Economist June 2, 2005.
T"he Great Jobs Switch", Economist, September 29, 2005.
"Industrial Metamorphosis", Economist, September 29, 2005.
Chapter 30 Government
"The price of Prudence", Economist, 01/25/04.
Chapter 36 The Economics of Health Care
"American are Buying Ever More Health Care", Wall Street Journal,
January 9, 2003.
" A Difficult Diagnosis", Region Focus, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond,
Spring 2003.
"We Ration Health Care. Better to Do It Rationally", Washington Post, June
1, 2003. Milton C. Weinstein Editorial.
"Your Health Plan's New Math", Wall Street Journal, October 15, 2003.
"Universal Care Has a Big Price: Patients Wait", Wall Street Journal,
November 12, 2003.
"The Benefits of Hypertension", Economist, 12/6/03.
"Russia's Health Care is Crumbling", Wall Street Journal, February 13, 2004.
"Pfizer Makes $800 Million Bid to Reshape Heart-Care Market",
Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2004.
"A Less Taxing Way to Pay", Barron's, 4/19/04.
"Tough Choices: The Peculiar Economics of Health Care", Region Focus,
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Spring 2004.
"Health Premiums Grow More Slowly Than Expected",
Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2004.
"Attacking Rise in Health Costs, Big Company Meets Resistance"
Wall Street Journal, July 13, 2004.
"Big Health Insurer to Target Scan Tests as Way to Cut costs",
Wall Street Journal, August 19, 2004.
"Infections Politics", Wall Street Journal, October 14, 2004.
"Simple, But Effective", Wall Street Journal, January 25, 2005.
"A Free Lunch in Health Care", Barron's, September 19. 2005.
"Shooting the Moon", Barron's, December 12, 2005
"Gouging the Drug Companies", Forbes, December 12, 2005
"Cancer Prognosis", Wall Street Journal, February 23,2006.
"Inescapable Trade-offs", Economist, February 23, 2006.
"Health Care for Everyone? We Found a Way.", Wall Street Journal, April 11, 2006.
"Pelosi on Drugs", Wall Street Journal, November 13, 2006.
" Hospital Caters to China's Wealthy and Poor", Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2007.
"Terminatorcare", Wall Street Journal, January 10, 2007.
"Health and Taxes", Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2007.
"First, Do No Harm", Forbes, February 12, 2007.
"Moe Kidneys For Transplants May Go to Young", Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2007.
"Midlife Medicare" Region Focus, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Winter 2007.
"McCain's Medicine", Wall Street Journal, October 12, 2007.
"To Cure Insurance Woes, Doctors Try Prepaid Plans", Wall Street Journal, October 22, 2007.
"More Choice Drive Costs in Health Care", Wall Street Journal, April 7, 2008.
"Health Savings Sabotage", Wall Street Journal, April 19, 2008.