Essential Microeconomics

ISBN-13: 9780521827478 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 710 str.

John G Riley

Opis

Essential Microeconomics is designed to help students deepen their understanding of the core theory of microeconomics.

Recenzje

'A great economist and teacher has produced a great book! Essential Microeconomics presents the main contributions and tools of economic theory in an extremely clear and engaging way. This book excels in developing the main intuitions behind every result. A great resource for economics students.' Pedro Dal Bo, Brown University

Spis treści

1. Prices and optimization; 2. Consumers; 3. Equilibrium and efficiency in an exchange economy; 4. Firms; 5. General equilibrium; 6. Dynamic optimization; 7. Uncertainty; 8. Equilibrium in financial markets; 9. Strategy; 10. Games with asymmetric information; 11. Incentive compatibility and mechanism design; 12. Auctions and public good; Appendix A. Mathematical foundations; Appendix B. Mappings of vectors; Appendix C. Optimization.

O autorze

Riley, John G.
John G. Riley is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. A Fellow of the Econometric Society, his research has appeared in eminent journals such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, and the RAND Journal of Economics. Professor Riley co-authored with the late Jack Hirshleifer The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information (Cambridge University Press, 1992), a new edition of which is forthcoming with Sushil Bikhchandani of UCLA.