Key Benefit: Economic Analysis of Social Issues provides readers with a modern analytical approach to economics based on the tools of game theory. Readers who are passionate about contemporary social problems are given an analytical framework to discuss problems like pollution, health care, and the depletion of natural resources.   Key Topics: Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Value of Life; Basic Game Theory: Games Between Two Players; Game Theory: Games Between Three or More Players; Free Exchange: Individual and International Trade; The Market System: Functions, Structure, and Institutions; The Nature of Pollution Problems; Government Policies to Regulate Pollution; Resource Depletion and Sustainability; Public Goods and the Role of Government; Public Goods: Tackling Large Projects and Eminent Domain; The Volunteer's Dilemma: A Collective Inaction Problem; Voting:  You Can't Always Get What You Want; The Economics of Health Insurance and Health Care; Segregation and Discrimination; Gross Domestic Product and the Wealth of Nations: An Introduction to the Macroeconomy; Unemployment; An Introduction to Money, Banks, and the Financial System; The Federal Reserve: Monetary Policy, Economic Activity, and Inflation; The Federal Government: Taxes, Spending, and Fiscal Policy; Income Inequality and the Redistribution of Income   Market: For readers who don't have a background in economics, looking to discuss social issues from an economic point of view.