Microeconomics

by Estrin, Saul; David, Laidler; Dietrich, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780273646273
• ISBN10: 0273646273
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

Microeconomicscaters for all students studying the subject, challenging the most able reader whilst leaving no student behind.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Elements Of The Theory Of Consumer Behaviour: Basic Theory of Consumer Choice

Consumer's Surplus and Marshallian Consumer Theory

Consumer Theory: Further Topics

The Individual's Supply of Labour

The Allocation of Consumption Over Time

Intertemporal Choice with Production Opportunities and the Role of the Capital Market

Choice in the Face of Risk

Goods and Their Attributes

Production and Costs: Production and the Firm

Properties of the Production Function

Cost Functions

Competition and Monopoly: Perfect Competition

More on the Theory of Supply in Perfect Competition

Monopoly

Industrial Organisation: Further Topics

Price Discrimination and Product Differentiation

Oligopoly - An Introduction

Oligopoly - Further Analysis

Game Theory

Alternative Objectives for the Firm

Factor Markets: The Demand for Factors of Production in Competition

The Demand for Factors of Production: Monopoly and Monopsony

Some Aspects of the Theory of Factor Supply

Production Functions, Cost Functions, and the Demand for Factors of Production

Further Topics In The Analysis Of Factor And Product Markets: The Economic Analysis of Trade Unions and Bargaining

Economics of Information

General Equilibrium And Welfare: An Overview

General Equilibrium in an Exchange Economy

General Equilibrium with Production

The Pareto Criterion and Competitive Equilibrium

Taxes, Externalities and Public Goods

The Pareto Criterion and Distributional Questions

Some Aspects Of Public Choice Analysis: Public Choice - A Brief Overview

Voting and the Median Vote

Interest Groups and Rent Seeking

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