Microeconomics
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Microeconomics
Pearson, c2022
3rd ed., Global ed
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Includes index
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Description
Forcourses in the principles of microeconomics.
Anevidence-based approach to economics
Throughout Microeconomics, 3rd Edition, authors DaronAcemoglu, David Laibson, and John List use real economic questions anddata to help you learn about the world around you. Taking a freshapproach, they use the themes of optimization, equilibrium, and empiricism tonot only illustrate the power of simple economic ideas, but also to explain andpredict what's happening in today's society. Each chapter begins with anempirical question that is relevant to the life of the reader, and islater answered using data in the Evidence-Based Economics feature. As a resultof the text's practical emphasis, you learn to apply economicprinciples to guide the decisions you make in your own dailylife.
Table of Contents
PARTI: INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS
1. The Principles and Practice of Economics
2. Economic Science: Using Data and Models to Understand the World
3. Optimization: Trying to Do the Best You Can
4. Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium
PARTII: FOUNDATIONS OF MICROECONOMICS
5. Consumers and Incentives
6. Sellers and Incentives
7. Perfect Competition and the Invisible Hand
8. Trade
9. Externalities and Public Goods
10. The Government in the Economy: Taxation and Regulation
11. Markets for Factors of Production
PARTIII: MARKET STRUCTURE
12. Monopoly
13. Game Theory and Strategic Play
14. Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition
PARTIV: EXTENDING THE MICROECONOMIC TOOLBOX
15. Trade-offs Involving Time and Risk
16. The Economics of Information
17. Auctions and Bargaining
18. Social Economics
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