Students destined for not-for-profit (NFP) enterprises and public institutions need to understand the elements in the economist's toolkit; this book provides an introduction to that set of tools. Traditional economic analysis is extended to nonprofit organizations and public institutions. Conventional economic analysis and tools are amended to accommodate the special characteristics of the nonprofit marketplace. Nonprofit firms and public institutions are both like and unlike private for-profit firms; this book concentrates on using economic analysis to understand the ways in which NFP enterprises make decisions about which goods and services to provide, how they allocate resources to provide them, and how they decide to whom they should be made available. "Microeconomics for Public Managers" is written specifically for these students. The objective of this book is not to offer a complete description and rationale of NFP enterprises and public institutions. Rather, it is designed to describe economic decision making relevant to nonprofit managers and to examine the more important applications of economics that managers in these firms in practice.