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共分5步，幫助考生了解AP考試以及自身水平，培養考試技巧，復習重點難點，建立應考信心。
全書詳細介紹了AP考試特點，並提供了三種不同的備考方案，方便考生根據自身情況制定復習計划。診斷測試附有詳細答案和解析，方便考生查缺補漏。此外，還為各種類型的考題提供了應試技巧，讓考生備考事半功倍。考點復習部分共有七章，涵蓋所有AP微觀經濟學考點，每章包括微觀經濟學概念釋義以及詳細例題解析，考生復習可做到有的放矢。書后和CD-ROM上各附帶兩套試題，方便考生考前練習。
Eric Dodge：資深AP教學與考試專家，擁有多年AP經濟學教學經驗，曾出版多本AP微觀經濟學教材，熟知AP考試特點，現任印第安納州Hanover College經濟學教授。
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 3 Develop 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
