Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Advertising / Agricultural subsidy programs / Airline deregulation / Antitrust / Apartheid / Arts / Auctions / Austrian school of economics / Balance of payments / Bank runs / Bankruptcy / Behavioral economics / Benefit-cost analysis / Bonds / Brand names / Bubbles / Business cycles / Campaign finance / Capital gains taxes / Capitalism / Cartels / Charity / Communism / Comparative advantage / Competing money supplies / Competition / Conscription / Consumer price indexes / Consumer protection / Consumption tax / Corporate financial structure / Corporate governance / Corporate taxation

Corporations / Corruption / Creative destruction / Crime / Defense / Demand / Disaster and recovery / Discrimination / Distribution of income / Economic freedom / Economic growth / Education / Efficiency / Efficient capital markets / Electricity and its regulation / Empirics of economic growth / Energy / Entrepreneurship / Environmental quality / Ethics and economics / European Union / Experimental economics / Externalities / Fascism / Federal Reserve System / Financial regulation / Fiscal policy / Fiscal sustainability / Forecasting and econometric models / Foreign aid / Foreign exchange / Free market / Free-market environmentalism / Free trade / Futures and options markets

Game theory / Gender gap / German economic miracle / Global warming : a balance sheet / Gold standard / Government debt and deficits / Government growth / Great Depression / Health care / Health insurance / Housing / Human capital / Hyperinflation / Immigration / Industrial concentration / Industrial Revolution and the standard of living / Inflation / Information / Information and prices / Innovation / Insider trading / Insurance / Intellectual property / Interest rates / International capital flows / International trade agreements / Internet / Stan Liebowitz -- Investment / Japan

Job safety / Junk bonds / Keynesian economics / Labor unions / Law and economics / Liability / Marginal tax rates / Alan Reynolds -- Marginal tax rates / Marginalism / Market for corporate control / Marxism / Mercantilism / Microeconomics / Minimum wages / Monetarism / Monetary policy / Monetary union / Money supply / Monopoly / National income accounts / Natural gas : markets and regulation / Natural resources / New classical macroeconomics / New Keynesian economics / OPEC / Opportunity cost / Pensions / Pharmaceuticals : economics and regulation

Phillips Curve / Political behavior / Pollution controls / Population / Poverty in America / Present value / Price controls / Prisoners' dilemma / Privitization / Productivity / Profits / Property rights / Protectionism / Public choice / Public goods / Rational expectations / Recycling / Redistribution / Regulation / Rent control / Rent seeking / Risk and safety / Sanctions / Saving / Savings and loan crisis / Social security / Thomas R. Saving -- Socialism / Spatial economics / Sportometrics / Sports

Standards of living and modern economic growth / Stock market / Supply / Supply-side economics / Surface freight transportation deregulation / Thomas Gale Moore -- Taxation / Telecommunications / Tragedy of the commons / Transition economies / Unemployment / Unintended consequences / Urban transportation / Welfare

Biographies -- Editor's note -- George A. Akerlof -- Armen A. Alchian -- Maurice Allais -- Kenneth Arrow -- Frédéric Bastiat -- Gary Stanley Becker -- Jeremy Bentham -- Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk -- James M. Buchanan -- Arthur Frank Burns -- Gustav Cassel -- Ronald H. Coase -- Gerard Debreu -- Robert F. Engle -- Irving Fisher -- Robert W. Fogel -- Milton Friedman -- Ragnar Frisch -- John Kenneth Galbraith -- Henry George -- Clive W.J. Granger -- Trygve Haavelmo -- Roy F. Harrod -- John C. Harsanyi -- Friedrich August Hayek -- James J. Heckman -- Walter Wolfgang Heller -- John R. Hicks -- David Hume -- William Stanley Jevons -- Harry Gordon Johnson -- Daniel Kahneman -- Leonid Vitalievich Kantorovich -- John Maynard Keynes -- Lawrence Robert Klein -- Lawrence Robert Klein -- Frank Hyneman Knight -- Tjalling Charles Koopmans -- Simon Kuznets -- Finn E. Kydland -- Oskar Ryszard Lange -- Wassily Leontief -- Abba Ptachya Lerner -- W. Arthur Lewis -- John Locke -- Robert E. Lucas Jr. -- Fritz Machlup -- Thomas Robert Malthus -- Harry Markowitz -- Alfred Marshall -- Karl Marx -- Daniel L. McFadden -- James Edward Meade -- Carl Menger -- Robert C. Merton -- John Stuart Mill -- Merton H. Miller -- James A. Mirrlees -- Ludwig von Mises -- Franco Modigliani -- Oskar Morgenstern -- Robert A. Mundell -- Gunnar Myrdal -- John F. Nash Jr. -- John von Neumann -- Douglass C. North -- Bertil Gotthard Ohlin -- Arthur M. Okun -- Vilfredo Pareto --

Arthur Cecil Pigou -- Edward C. Prescott -- François Quesnay -- David Ricardo -- Lionel Robbins -- Joan Violet Robinson -- Paul Anthony Samuelson -- Jean-Baptiste Say -- Myron S. Scholes -- Theodore William Schultz -- Joseph Alois Schumpteter -- Reinhard Selten -- Amartya Sen -- William F. Sharp -- Herbert Alexander Simon-- Adam Smith -- Vernon L. Smith -- Robert Merton Solow -- Michael Spence -- George J. Stigler -- Joseph E. Stiglitz -- John Richard Nicholas Stone -- Jan Tinbergen -- James Tobin -- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot -- Thorstein Veblen -- William S. Vickrey -- Jacob Viner -- Leon Walras -- Max Weber -- Knut Wicksell -- Appendixes -- Nobel Memorial Prize winners in economic science -- Chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisers -- Presidents of the American Economic Association -- Contributors -- Index.