Modern principles : microeconomics
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Modern principles : microeconomics
Worth Publishers, c2013
2nd ed
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
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  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. R1-R6) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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Table of Contents
PART I: SUPPLY AND DEMAND The Big Ideas The Power of Trade and Comparative Advantage Supply and Demand Equilibrium: How Supply and Demand Determine Prices Elasticity and its Applications Appendix: Other Types of Elasticities Appendix: Elasticities with Excel Taxes and Subsidies PART II: THE PRICE SYSTEM The Price System: Signals, Speculation and Prediction Price Ceilings and Price Floors International Trade Externalities: When Prices Send the Wrong Signals PART III: FIRMS AND FACTOR MARKETS Costs and Profit Maximization Under Competition Appendix: Using Excel to Graph Cost Curves Competition and the Invisible Hand Monopoly Price Discrimination Appendix: Solving Price Discrimination Problems with Excel Cartels, Oligopolies, and Monopolistic Competition The Economics of Network Goods: Competing for Monopoly Labor Markets PART IV: GOVERNMENT Public Goods and the Tragedy of the Commons Appendix: The Tragedy of the Commons: How Fast? Political Economy and Public Choice Economics, Ethics and Public Policy PART V: DECISION MAKING FOR BUSINESSES, INVESTORS, AND CONSUMERS Managing Incentives Stock Markets and Personal Finance Consumer Choice Back-of-Book Appendices A: Reading Graphs in Economics B: Answers to Check Yourself
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