Microeconomics
South-Western College Publishing
15th Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. April 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
592 pages
979-8-214-05484-1 (ISBN)
Description
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Edition
15th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Florence
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 218 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
1125 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-214-05484-1 (9798214054841)
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Roger A. Arnold | Daniel Arnold | David Arnold
Microeconomics
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Persons
Dr. Roger Arnold is at California State University San Marcos, where his fields of specialization are general microeconomic theory and monetary theory. Dr. Arnold earned his BS in economics from the University of Birmingham in England. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Tech. Dr. Daniel Arnold is a research scientist in the School of Public Health at Brown University, where his field of specialization is health economics. He received his BA in economics and mathematics from Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California Santa Barbara. Dr. David Arnold is at University of California San Diego, where his fields of specialization are labor economics, imperfect competition and discrimination. He received his BA in economics from the University of California Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.
Author
California State University, San Marcos
Brown University
University of California - San Diego
Content
An Introduction to Economics.
Part I: ECONOMICS: THE SCIENCE OF SCARCITY.
1. What Economics Is About.
Appendix A: Working with Diagrams.
Appendix B: Should You Major in Economics?
2. Production Possibilities Frontier Framework.
3. Supply and Demand: Theory.
4. Prices: Free, Controlled, and Relative.
5. Supply, Demand, and Price: Applications.
Microeconomics.
Part II: MICROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS.
6. Elasticity.
7. Consumer Choice: Maximizing Utility and Behavioral Economics.
Appendix C: Budget Constraint and Indifference Curve Analysis.
8. Production and Costs.
Part III: PRODUCT MARKETS AND POLICIES.
9. Perfect Competition.
10. Monopoly.
11. Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly, and Game Theory.
12. Government and Product Markets: Antitrust and Regulation.
Part IV: FACTOR MARKETS AND RELATED ISSUES.
13. Factor Markets: With Emphasis on the Labor Market.
14. Wages, Unions, and Labor.
15. The Distribution of Income and Poverty.
16. Interest, Rent, and Profit.
Part V: HEALTH ECONOMICS.
17. Health Economics: Experiments, Disparities, and Prices.
Part VI: MARKET FAILURE, PUBLIC CHOICE, AND SPECIAL-INTEREST-GROUP POLITICS.
18. Market Failure: Externalities, Public Goods, and Asymmetric Information.
19. Public Choice and Special-Interest-Group Politics.
20. Creative Destruction and Crony Capitalism: Two Forces on the Economic Landscape Today.
Part VII: ECONOMIC THEORIES AND RESEARCH.
21. New Frontiers in Economic Research: Causal Inference and Machine Learning.
Part VIII: INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FINANCE.
22. International Trade.
23. International Finance.
Part I: ECONOMICS: THE SCIENCE OF SCARCITY.
1. What Economics Is About.
Appendix A: Working with Diagrams.
Appendix B: Should You Major in Economics?
2. Production Possibilities Frontier Framework.
3. Supply and Demand: Theory.
4. Prices: Free, Controlled, and Relative.
5. Supply, Demand, and Price: Applications.
Microeconomics.
Part II: MICROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS.
6. Elasticity.
7. Consumer Choice: Maximizing Utility and Behavioral Economics.
Appendix C: Budget Constraint and Indifference Curve Analysis.
8. Production and Costs.
Part III: PRODUCT MARKETS AND POLICIES.
9. Perfect Competition.
10. Monopoly.
11. Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly, and Game Theory.
12. Government and Product Markets: Antitrust and Regulation.
Part IV: FACTOR MARKETS AND RELATED ISSUES.
13. Factor Markets: With Emphasis on the Labor Market.
14. Wages, Unions, and Labor.
15. The Distribution of Income and Poverty.
16. Interest, Rent, and Profit.
Part V: HEALTH ECONOMICS.
17. Health Economics: Experiments, Disparities, and Prices.
Part VI: MARKET FAILURE, PUBLIC CHOICE, AND SPECIAL-INTEREST-GROUP POLITICS.
18. Market Failure: Externalities, Public Goods, and Asymmetric Information.
19. Public Choice and Special-Interest-Group Politics.
20. Creative Destruction and Crony Capitalism: Two Forces on the Economic Landscape Today.
Part VII: ECONOMIC THEORIES AND RESEARCH.
21. New Frontiers in Economic Research: Causal Inference and Machine Learning.
Part VIII: INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FINANCE.
22. International Trade.
23. International Finance.