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Thinking Like an Economist 2 Thinking Like an Economist

Figure 1 The Circular Flow

Figure 2 The Production Possibilities Frontier

Figure 3 A Shift in the Production Possibilities Frontier

Table 1 Web Sites Copyright © 2004 South-Western

Table 2 Ten Propositions about Which Most Economists Agree Copyright © 2004 South-Western

Figure A-1 Types of Graphs

Figure A-2 Using the Coordinate System

Table A-1 Novels Purchased by Emma Copyright©2003 Southwestern/Thomson Learning

Figure A-3 Demand Curve

Figure A-4 Shifting Demand Curves

Figure A-5 Calculating the Slope of a Line

Figure A-6 Graph with an Omitted Variable

Figure A-7 Graph Suggesting Reverse Causality