Microeconomics

by Slavin, Stephen L.

• ISBN13: 9780072374100
• ISBN10: 0072374101
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-09
• Publisher: MCG

Summary

Steve Slavin's lively and comprehensive student-friendly, step-by-step approach, couple with its low price and built-in Study Guide are very attractive to adopters. Instructors and students like the author's humorous anecdotes, direct language, and easy conversational style. The text is interactive and encourages active learning.With the help of over 15 reviewers, this new edition is not only more streamlined and up-to-date but it also introduces global perspectives to many discussions early on and throughout the text. The author discusses the impact of technology and e-business on the recent economic expansion. A new interior design reflects the contemporary flavor that this traditional text now possesses.

Table of Contents

1 A BRIEF ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

2 RESOURCE UTILIZATION

APPENDIX: THE LAW OF INCREASING COSTS

3 SUPPLY AND DEMAND

4 THE MIXED ECONOMY

5 DEMAND, SUPPLY, AND EQUILIBRIUM

6 THE ELASTICITIES OF DEMAND AND SUPPLY

7 THE THEORY OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR

8 COST

9 PROFIT MAXIMIZATION

10 PERFECT COMPETITION

11 MONOPOLY

12 MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION

13 OLIGOPOLY

APPENDIX: THE FOUR TYPES OF COMPETITION: A REVIEW

14 CORPORATE MERGERS AND ANTITRUST

15 DEMAND IN THE FACTOR MARKET

16 LABOR UNIONS

17 LABOR MARKETS AND WAGE RATES

18 RENT, INTEREST, AND PROFIT

19 INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND POVERTY

20 INTERNATIONAL TRADE

21 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE