Price Theory and Applications
United States Edition
6th Edition
Published on 21. April 1998
Book
Hardback
608 pages
978-0-13-190778-2 (ISBN)
Description
For courses in intermediate microeconomics, price theory, microeconomic theory, and MBA courses in managerial economics.
Rich with examples, this reality-based economics text continues its pioneering approach of integrating theory and applications, showing how microeconomic analysis sheds light on market behavior, guides personal and financial decisions, and explains behavior in such areas as politics, crime, and the family.
Rich with examples, this reality-based economics text continues its pioneering approach of integrating theory and applications, showing how microeconomic analysis sheds light on market behavior, guides personal and financial decisions, and explains behavior in such areas as politics, crime, and the family.
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Edition
6th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 195 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
1065 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-190778-2 (9780131907782)
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Jack Hirshleifer | Amihai Glazer
Price Theory and Applications
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12/1991
5th Edition
Prentice-Hall
€34.66
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Content
(NOTE:All chapters conclude with a Summary and Questions.)PART I. INTRODUCTION.
1. The Nature and Scope of Economics.
2. Working Tools.
PART II. PREFERENCE, CONSUMPTION, AND DEMAND.
3. Utility and Preference.
4. Consumption and Demand.
5. Applications and Extensions of Demand Theory.
PART III. THE FIRM AND THE INDUSTRY.
6. The Business Firm.
7. Equilibrium in the Product Market-Competitive Industry.
8. Monopolies and Cartels.
9. The Product as a Variable.
10. Oligopoly and Strategic Behavior.
PART IV. FACTOR MARKETS AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION.
11. Demand for Factors of Production.
12. Resource Supply and Factor-Market Equilibrium.
PART V. EXCHANGE.
13. Exchange, Transaction Costs, and Money.
PART VI. ECONOMICS AND TIME.
14. The Economics of Time.
PART VII. POLITICAL ECONOMY.
15. Welfare Economics: The Market and the State.
16. Government, Conflict, and Cooperation.
Answers to Selected Questions.
Name Index.
Subject Index.
1. The Nature and Scope of Economics.
2. Working Tools.
PART II. PREFERENCE, CONSUMPTION, AND DEMAND.
3. Utility and Preference.
4. Consumption and Demand.
5. Applications and Extensions of Demand Theory.
PART III. THE FIRM AND THE INDUSTRY.
6. The Business Firm.
7. Equilibrium in the Product Market-Competitive Industry.
8. Monopolies and Cartels.
9. The Product as a Variable.
10. Oligopoly and Strategic Behavior.
PART IV. FACTOR MARKETS AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION.
11. Demand for Factors of Production.
12. Resource Supply and Factor-Market Equilibrium.
PART V. EXCHANGE.
13. Exchange, Transaction Costs, and Money.
PART VI. ECONOMICS AND TIME.
14. The Economics of Time.
PART VII. POLITICAL ECONOMY.
15. Welfare Economics: The Market and the State.
16. Government, Conflict, and Cooperation.
Answers to Selected Questions.
Name Index.
Subject Index.