Eric Dodge:资深AP教学与考试专家,拥有多年AP经济学教学经验,曾出版多本AP微观经济学教材,熟知AP考试特点,现任印第安纳州Hanover College经济学教授。
目錄:
STEP 1 Set Up Your Study Program
1 What You Need to Know About the AP Microeconomics Exam 3
2 How to Plan Your Time 12
STEP 2 Determine Your Test Readiness
3 Take the Diagnostic Exam 19
Diagnostic Exam: AP Microeconomics 23
STEP 3Develop Strategies for Success
4 How to Approach Each Question Type 33
Section I: Multiple-Choice Questions 33
Section II: Free-Response Questions 36
STEP 4 Review the Knowledge You Need to Score High
5 Fundamentals of Economic Analysis 41
5.1 Scarce Resources 42
5.2 Production Possibilities 45
5.3 Functions of Economic Systems 51
6 Demand, Supply, Market Equilibrium, and Welfare Analysis 55
6.1 Demand 55
6.2 Supply 61
6.3 Market Equilibrium 64
6.4 Welfare Analysis 69
7 Elasticity, Microeconomic Policy, and Consumer Theory 74
7.1 Elasticity 75
7.2 Microeconomic Policy and Applications of Elasticity 83
7.3 Trade Barriers 90
7.4 Consumer Choice 93
8 The Firm, Profit, and the Costs of Production 102
8.1 Firms, Opportunity Costs, and Profits 103
8.2 Production and Cost 104
9 Market Structures, Perfect Competition, Monopoly, and Things Between 116
9.1 Perfect Competition 117
9.2 Monopoly 127
9.3 Monopolistic Competition 132
9.4 Oligopoly 134
10 Factor Markets 140
10.1 Factor Demand 141
10.2 Least-Cost Hiring of Multiple Inputs 145
10.3 Factor Supply and Market Equilibrium 147
10.4 Imperfect Competition in Product and Factor Markets 149
11 Public Goods, Externalities, and the Role of Government 153
11.1 Public Goods and Spillover Benefits 154
11.2 Pollution and Spillover Costs 156
11.3 Income Distribution and Tax Structures 158
STEP 5 Build Your Test-Taking Confidence
AP Microeconomics Practice Exam 1 167
AP Microeconomics Practice Exam 2 187
Appendixes 207
Further Reading 209
Websites 211
Glossary 213
Important Formulas and Conditions 219