Microeconomics for Public Managers

Barry P. Keating, Maryann O. Keating (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

448 Seiten

2008
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-2544-4 (ISBN)

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Nonprofit firms and public institutions are both like and unlike private for-profit firms; this book concentrates on using economic analysis to understand the ways in which NFP enterprises make decisions about which goods and services to provide, how they allocate resources to provide them, and how they decide to whom they should be made available.

Microeconomics for Public Managers presents a rigorous non-mathematical introduction to the study of microeconomics geared towards managers of nonprofit institutions.

Provides an introduction to the economist’s toolkit for students destined for not-for-profit enterprises and public institutions
Topics are selected for their relevance to the non-profit sector, enabling key issues to be covered in greater depth than standard microeconomic textbooks
Pertinent case studies and cost-benefit analysis are utilized throughout
Features end-of chapter problem sets and study questions
Describes economic decision-making applicable to non-profit managers
Accompanying website with instructor materials is available at www.blackwellpublishing.com/keating

Barry P. Keating teaches Non-profit Management, Managerial Economics, and Forecasting to undergraduate and graduate classes at the University of Notre Dame. He conducts business forecasting seminars internationally for corporate professionals. He is also a Heritage Foundation Salvatori Fellow. Maryann O. Keating teaches Principles of Economics, Graduate Survey of Economics, and Public Finance at Indiana University South Bend. They have three adult children and live in South Bend, Indiana.

Organizational Alternatives Part I: Institutional Setting

Chapter 1. Managerial Economics in Public and Nonprofit Administration: An Overview

Chapter 2. Characteristics of the Government and Private Nonprofit Sectors

Part II: Consumer Theory and Public Goods

Chapter 3. Demand and Supply

Chapter 4. Estimating Client Choice

Chapter 5. Market Failure and Public Choice

Part III: Production Theory and Public Administration

Chapter 6. Production and Costs

Chapter 7. Market Structure in Government and Nonprofit Industries

Chapter 8. Selecting the Right Niche and Setting Client Fees

Chapter 9. Strategic Goals: If Not Profit, What?

Part IV: Input Markets and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Chapter 10. Employing Labor and Capital

Chapter 11. Cost-Benefit Analysis

Index

Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	173 x 246 mm
Gewicht	754 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-4051-2544-6 / 1405125446
ISBN-13	978-1-4051-2544-4 / 9781405125444
Zustand	Neuware