Intermediate Microeconomics: An Intuitive Approach with Calculus

ISBN-13: 9781473759008 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018

Thomas (Duke University) Nechyba

Spis treści

Chapter 0: Foundational Preliminaries (web-based chapter)Chapter 1: IntroductionPART 1: Utility-Maximizing Choice: Consumers, Workers and SaversChapter 2: A Consumer s Economic CircumstancesChapter 3: Economic Circumstances in Labour and Financial MarketsChapter 4: Tastes and Indifference CurvesChapter 5: Different Types of TastesChapter 6: Doing the Best We CanChapter 7: Income and Substitution Effects in Consumer Goods MarketsChapter 8: Wealth and Substitution Effects in Labour and Capital MarketsChapter 9: Demand for Goods and Supply of Labour and CapitalChapter 10: Consumer Surplus and Deadweight LossPART 2: Profit-Maximizing Choice: Producers or FirmsChapter 11: One Input and One Output: A Short-Run Producer ModelChapter 12: Production with Multiple InputsChapter 13: Production Decisions in the Short and Long RunPART 3: Competitive Markets and the Invisible HandChapter 14: Competitive Market EquilibriumChapter 15: The Invisible Hand and the First Welfare TheoremChapter 16: General EquilibriumChapter 17: Choice and Markets in the Presence of RiskPART 4: Distortions of the Invisible Hand in Competitive MarketsChapter 18: Elasticities, Price-Distorting Policies and Non-Price RationingChapter 19: Distortionary Taxes and SubsidiesChapter 20: Prices and Distortions across MarketsChapter 21: Externalities in Competitive MarketsChapter 22: Asymmetric Information in Competitive MarketsPART 5: Distortions of the Invisible Hand from Strategic DecisionsChapter 23: MonopolyChapter 24: Strategic Thinking and Game TheoryChapter 25: OligopolyChapter 26: Product Differentiation and Innovation in MarketsChapter 27: Public GoodsChapter 28: Governments and PoliticsPART 6: Considering How to Make the World a Better PlaceChapter 29: What Is Good? Challenges from Psychology and PhilosophyChapter 30: Balancing Government, Civil Society, and Markets

O autorze

Thomas J. Nechyba is Professor of Economics at the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, US. At Duke, he has previously served as Director of Undergraduate Studies and as Department Chair and currently directs the Economics Center for Teaching (EcoTeach) as well as Duke's Social Science Research Institute. In addition to his activities in the US, he has lectured internationally in Europe, Latin America and New Zealand.