Microeconomics, Global Edition -- MyLab Economics with Pearson eText

Robert Pindyck, Daniel Rubinfeld (Autoren)

Online Resource

2022 | 9th edition
Pearson (Hersteller)
978-0-6557-0943-5 (ISBN)

Infos

For Intermediate Microeconomics courses. Microeconomics exposes students to topics that play a central role in microeconomics. From game theory and competitive strategy, to the roles of uncertainty and information, and the analysis of pricing by firms with market power, the text helps students understand what's going on in the world of business. It also shows students how microeconomics can be used as a practical tool for decision-making and for designing and understanding public policy. The 9th Edition further illustrates microeconomics' relevance and usefulness with new coverage and examples, and an improved exposition that is clear and accessible as well as lively and engaging. With Microeconomics, readers will be able to fully appreciate how a modern economy functions.

Autor

About our author Michael Parkin is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Professor Parkin has held faculty appointments at Brown University, the University of Manchester, the University of Essex, and Bond University. He is a past president of the Canadian Economics Association and has served on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and the Journal of Monetary Economics and as managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics. Professor Parkin's research on macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international economics has resulted in over 160 publications in journals and edited volumes, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He became most visible to the public with his work on inflation that discredited the use of wage and price controls. Professor Parkin also spearheaded the movement toward European monetary union. Professor Parkin is an experienced and dedicated teacher of introductory economics.

Inhalt

Part 1: INTRODUCTION: MARKETS AND PRICES
1. Preliminaries
2. The Basics of Supply and Demand
Part 2: PRODUCERS, CONSUMRS, AND COMPETITIVE MARKETS
3. Consumer Behavior
4. Individual and Market Demand
5. Uncertainty and Consumer Behavior
6. Production
7. The Cost of Production
8. Profit Maximization and Competitive Supply
9. The Analysis of Competitive Markets
Part 3: MARKET STRUCTURE AND COMPETITIVE STRATEGY
10. Market Power: Monopoly and Monopsony
11. Pricing with Market Power
12. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
13. Game Theory and Competitive Strategy
14. Markets for Factor Inputs
15. Investment, Time, and Capital Markets
Part 4: INFORMATION, MARKET FAILURE, AND THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT
16. General Equilibrium and Economic Efficiency
17. Markets with Asymmetric Information
18. Externalities and Public Goods
19. Behavioral Economics
Appendix: The Basics of Regression
Answers to Selected Exercises

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.6.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• ISBN-10: 0-6557-0943-6 / 0655709436
• ISBN-13: 978-0-6557-0943-5 / 9780655709435
• Zustand: Neuware