Hey, from what I remember.
The topic of markets is an introduction into the different kinds of markets. E.g.
Financial Markets - forex and domestic
Product Markets - market for goods and services (so like Kmart and other businesses)
Factor Markets - market for factors of production
Labour Markets - market for human capital
The first few subsections within markets - supply, demand and equilibrium are applicable to all markets in that each market will have a market equilibrium that is influenced by changes in supply and demand.
Just to simplify, a market is basically a place where a certain product/resource can be bought or sold. It doesn't refer to a specific place (like Paddy's markets
), but to the combination of all buyers and sellers whose demand and supply of such products/resources create an equilibrium price and quantity.
So a financial market trades various financial instruments (such as bonds, debentures etc.), a product market trades goods and services (like isaac said shoes, cars, food etc.), a factor market trades inputs (such as land, capital etc.) and a labour market trades...well...labour. In return for supplying product/resources suppliers receive a monetary payment equal to the equilibrium price
(and in the case of labour, sometimes extra benefits such as shares).