Microeconomics and behavior
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Microeconomics and behavior
Irwin/McGraw-Hill, c2000
4th ed., international ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This textbook covers the essential principles of microeconomics by exploring the relationship between economic analysis and human behaviour. Its numerous examples aim to help students capture economic intuition.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Introduction: thinking like an economist
- supply and demand. Part 2 The theory of consumer behaviour - rational consumer choices
- individual and market demand
- applications of rational choice and demand theories
- the economics of information and choice under uncertainty (supplementary)
- explaining tastes - the importance of altruism and other non-egoistic behaviour (supplementary)
- cognitive limitations and consumer behaviour (supplementary). Part 3 The theory of the firm and market structure: production
- costs
- perfect competition
- mono[poly
- oligopoly and monopolistic competition. Part 4 Factor markets: labour
- capital (supplementary). Part 5 General equilibrium and welfare: general equilibrium and market efficiency
- externalities, property rights, and the Case theorem
- government (supplementary). Appendices: the utility function approach to the consumer budgeting problem
- additional topics in demand theory
- additional topics in supply theory
- search theory and the winner's curse
- mathematical extensions of production theory
- additional extensions of the theory of costs
- additional models of monopolistic competition
- a more detailed look at exhaustible resource allocation.
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