1     Society: Coordination Problems & Economic Institutions

2     People: Self-Interest and Social Preferences

• A generic payoff matrix and expected payoffs

3     Doing the Best You Can: Constrained Optimization

• Figure 3.5: An indifference map for kilograms of coffee and gigabytes of data
• Figure 3.9: Production of Learning by studying and the feasible frontier of Living and Learning
• Figure 3.10: The mrs=mrt rule for two goods
• Figure 3.13: Offer curve and demand curve for fish
• Figure 3.16: Tradeoff between consumption of conventional goods and environmental quality with R&D

4     Property & Exchange: Mutual Gains & Conflicts

• Figure 4.4: Pareto-efficient allocations: Different utility functions
• Figure 4.5: The utility possibilities frontier (UPF) and the Impartial Spectator’s iso-social welfare curves (w)
• Figure 4.8: Bargaining over hours and wages
• Figure 4.11: Constructing B's best-response function (ICC)
• Figure 4.12: A sets the price subject to B's best-response function (ICC)
• Figure 4.15: Altruistic indifference maps

5     Coordination Failures & Institutional Responses

• Figure 5.7: Abdul maximizes his utility subject to the constraint of the production function
• Figure 5.10: A new look at Abdul’s constrained optimization problem for selecting his fishing time depending on Bridget’s fishing time
• Figure 5.12: The Nash equilibrium and the Pareto-improving lens

6     Production, Specialization, and Exchange

• Figure 6.4: Deriving the production possibilities frontier with economies of scale
• Figure 6.7: A two-step optimizing process with diseconomies of scale and opportunities for exchange
• Figure 6.15: A production isoquant combining two techniques
• Figure 6.20: Choosing a capital-intensive or labor-intensive technology to minimize costs

7     Market Demand

• Figure 7.6: Harriet’s budget constraint with shifts in income & her income-offer curve
• Figure 7.15: Harriet’s utility-maximizing choice and marginal rate of substitution (demand): quasi-linear preferences
• Figure 7.17: Carbon tax with dividend

8     Supply: Firms’ costs, output and profit

• Figure 8.5: Total, average, marginal and variable costs: increasing and constant marginal costs
• Figure 8.10: The level of output that maximizes economic profit
• Figure 8.11: Isoprofits, demand, marginal revenue and marginal costs
• Figure 8.22: A model of supply and demand for housing with rent control
• Figure 8.23: The perfectly competitive firm

9     Competition, Rent-seeking & Market Equilibration

• Figure 9.5: Isoprofit and best-response curves for one duopolist
• Figure 9.7: Nash equilibrium output with n firms
• Figure 9.10: How barriers to entry affect the equilibrium number of firms
• Figure 9.17: Duopolists’ isoprofit curves and best-response functions

10     Information: Contracts, Norms & Power

• Figure 10.7: The agent’s best-response function
• Figure 10.9: The principal’s cost-minimizing price and the agent’s utility-maximizing quality provided

11     Jobs, Unemployment & Wages

• Figure 11.3: Comparison of complete and incomplete labor contracts
• Figure 11.14: Equilibrium in the product and labor markets of the whole economy
• Figure 11.15: The monopsonist's profit-maximizing level of hiring
• Figure 11.17: Monopsony and the minimum wage

12     Interest, Credit & Wealth Constraints

• Figure 12.8: The Nash equilibrium of the lender-borrower interaction
• Figure 12.12: Credit market exclusion and credit constraints
• Figure 12.17: Nash equilibria with unlimited competition and barriers to entry

13     A Risky & Unequal World

• Figure 13.12: Indifference curves and risk choices of a risk-averse and risk-neutral person
• Figure 13.14: Effect of insurance on risk-taking and utility: Two tangencies

14     Perfect Competition & the Invisible Hand

• Figure 14.8: A general competitive equilibrium

15     Capitalism: Innovation & Inequality

• Figure 15.15: The whole economy model and the Lorenz Curve

16     Public policy and mechanism design

• Figure 16.10: The Nash equilibrium level of smoking before and after a cigarette tax is imposed