The textbook assignment Internet Exercise is the first one listed in each chapter.

Chapter 1: Economics and the World Around You

• International Trade in Goods
• Is Water a Free Good?
• CD prices in the United Kingdom

Chapter 2: Markets and the Market Process

• Buying the world a Coke?
• U.S. Dry Edible Bean Briefing Room
• Iowa Electronic Markets

Chapter 3: Applications of Supply and Demand

• Current Labor Market Conditions
• The Market Price of an Economist
• Who Pays for Mandated Health Insurance?
• Rent Control

Chapter 4: The Firm and the Consumer

• Substitution Among Pharmaceuticals
• Bill Gates' Speech at the Microsoft CEO Summit
• Darnell Group

Chapter 5: Costs and Profit Maximization

• Fixed and Variable Costs at IBM
• Earth Day: Charting the Next 25 Years
• Accounting and Economic Costs for Internet Telephone Services

Chapter 6: Competition and Market Structures

• Advertising as a Barrier to Entry
• The New York Information Technology Center
• Economies and Diseconomies of Scale and Year 2000 Compliance
• Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Merger Guidelines
• The DeBeers Diamond Cartel
• Elasticity of Demand: "Hints on Obtaining Low Fares"

Chapter 7: Competition, Cooperation, and the Government

• Utilities Regulated by the New York State Public Services Commission
• The Prisoners' Dilemma
• "The Myth of Predatory Pricing"
• Oil and the Gulf War
• Gillette-Parker Merger
• Toys "R" Us
• Wal-Mart v. American Drugs

Chapter 8: Social Issues

• The Sierra Club
• U.S. Policy and Global Warming
• U.S. Discrimination Law
• Trends in Poverty rates
• The Lorenz Curve

Chapter 9: An Overview of the National and International Economies

• Federal, State, and Local Budgets
• Globalization and the U.S. Economy
• The FTC
• Net Exports and Unemployment

Chapter 10: Macroeconomic Measures

• GDP
• The CPI and an Individual's Cost of Living
• Purchasing Power Parity and the Big Mac
• Mexico's Balance of Payments

Chapter 11: Unemployment, Inflation, and Business Cycles

• U.S. Unemployment Rate
• Recent Macroeconomic Performance
• U.S. Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions
• Controversy over Labour Statistics
• How the Government Measures Unemployment

Chapter 12: Macroeconomic Equilibrium: Aggregate Demand and Supply

• Business Cycles and AD/AS
• Mexico: Economic Policy Guidelines for 1998
• Alan Greenspan's February 2001 Report

Chapter 13: Fiscal Policy

• U.S. Government Revenue
• Tax Cuts and Investment
• A Balanced-Budget Amendment?
• Balanced Budget Amendment: Pro and Con

Chapter 14: Money and Banking

• Bank Failures
• Money in North American History
• The Bimetallic Standard and Gresham's Law

Chapter 15: Monetary Policy

• Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee
• Continental Currency

Chapter 16: Macroeconomic Policy, Business Cycles, and Growth

• The OECD
• The Economic Report of the President
• Stanley Fischer on Central Banking
• Establishing Federal Reserve Inflation Goals
• Paul Romer on Economic Growth

Chapter 17: Issues in International Trade and Finance

• The Role of the WTO
• Free Trade Area of the Americas
• Aftermarket Auto Parts