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Microeconomics

David C. Colander

(McGraw-Hill higher education)

Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2001

4th ed

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A multi-media instructional package with related Website is available to supplement the text

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Written in an informal colloquial style, this text aims to to instill "economic sensibility" in the student. Colander emphasizes the intellectual and historical context to which the economic models are applied.

Table of Contents

  • Part I Introduction: economics and economic reasoning
  • the economic organization of society
  • the US economy in a global setting
  • supply and demand
  • supply and demand in practice
  • Part II Microeconomics: describing supply and demand - elasticities
  • taxation and government intervention
  • the logic of individual choice - the foundation of supply and demand
  • production and cost analysis I
  • production and cost analysis II
  • perfect competition
  • monopoly
  • monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and strategic pricing
  • growth, technology, and real-world competition
  • government policy and market failures
  • microeconomic policy, economic reasoning, and beyond
  • anti-trust policy and regulation
  • politics and economics - the case of agricultural markets
  • international trade policy
  • the geometry of absolute advantage and comparative advantage
  • factor markets
  • who gets what? - the distribution of income
  • labour and resource markets
  • international dimensions of monetary and fiscal policies.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA51089606
  • ISBN
    • 0072317949
  • LCCN
    00040690
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Boston, Mass.
  • Pages/Volumes
    1 v. (various pagings)
  • Size
    26 cm
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