Microeconomics: Principles and ApplicationsDryden Press, 1989 - 768 páginas |
Contenido
PART | 2 |
Chapter | 6 |
The Law of Scarcity 8 Scarcity of Resources 8 Scarcity | 12 |
Scarcity Opportunity Cost and | 19 |
Available to Society 24 The Law of Increasing Costs | 25 |
Appendix | 39 |
Exchange and Economic Organization 52 | 52 |
Gift Giving 58 Trade and Production at the Lowest Cost | 58 |
The Economics of Price Searching | 404 |
PRICE SEARCHING | 405 |
What Is a Monopoly? 410 Barriers | 412 |
Chapter 11 | 417 |
The Theory of Monopoly 414 Deriving the MarginalReve | 422 |
Competitive? 429 Arguments in Defense of Monopoly 429 | 429 |
Price Discrimination 434 Summary | 436 |
12 | 492 |
Specialization Fostered by Trade 60 Specialization | 67 |
3 ANALYSIS | 74 |
Determined in a Market Economy | 82 |
HOW PRICE IS DETERMINED IN A MARKET ECONOMY | 87 |
What Is a Market? 86 Competitive Mar | 90 |
Education at Risk 176 | 103 |
Chapter 2 | 109 |
KEY QUESTIONS | 117 |
The Fundamentals of Exchange | 120 |
The Economic Theory of Information 123 Transaction Costs sionate Minority 199 Shortsighted Effect 200 Opera | 129 |
Competition in the WineGrape | 135 |
Why Prices Change 140 Changes | 147 |
Demand 152 Summary | 157 |
2 ANALYSIS | 163 |
Chapter 4 | 209 |
Revenues | 211 |
Chapter 6 | 226 |
The Concept of Relative Price 230 | 234 |
The Peculiar Effects of Auto Safety | 240 |
Summary | 246 |
Appendix to Chapter 6 Indifference Curves | 257 |
The Budget Line 257 Indifference Curves 260 The Con | 263 |
Supply | 268 |
PREVIEW 7 | 269 |
Calculating the Price Elasticity of Demand 273 Price Elas | 285 |
APPLICATION 7 | 291 |
17 2 ANALYSIS | 297 |
Costs and Supply | 308 |
Explicit versus Implicit Costs 313 Economic Profit versus | 316 |
Costs of Production 322 Costs of Production in the Short | 322 |
Why an Airline Should Fly | 329 |
The Market Supply Curve 330 Costs of Production in | 335 |
1 ANALYSIS | 341 |
Chapter 9 | 358 |
tive Firms Demand Curve 364 The Competitive Firms Sup | 366 |
PART 3 | 374 |
LongRun Costs in the Industry 379 Market Adjustments | 384 |
Appendix to Chapter 9 The Concept of | 402 |
Barriers | 498 |
Conditions for Stable Collusion 505 Anticipated Reactions | 507 |
515 Product Variations 515 Advertising and Promotion | 515 |
Theory | 533 |
FACTOR MARKETS | 540 |
Chapter 13 | 546 |
Demand for the Factors of Production 552 Substitution | 554 |
Changes in the Demand for a Factor of Production 555 | 562 |
2 ANALYSIS | 568 |
14 | 574 |
Market | 578 |
Monopoly or Price Searching in | 582 |
Determination with Monopsony 587 Labor Unions 588 | 588 |
A Brief History of Unions | 594 |
PART 5 | 596 |
15 | 609 |
and Profits | 612 |
Interest 616 Capital 616 Rate | 625 |
The Single Tax and the Economic | 631 |
Summary | 637 |
3 ANALYSIS | 643 |
MARKET FAILURE AND PUBLIC POLICY | 649 |
Antitrust Law and Regulation | 650 |
History of U S Antitrust Law 654 The portance of Property Rights 689 Common Property and | 664 |
1 ANALYSIS | 670 |
Chapter 17 | 678 |
Income | 710 |
Income Distribution in the United States 717 Effect of Taxes | 722 |
Wel | 730 |
1 ANALYSIS | 736 |
Chapter 19 | 744 |
Public Goods 749 Efficient Provision of a Public Good | 751 |
Access 752 Assumption of Risk 753 Provision for Future | 760 |
LIST OF APPLICATIONS | 769 |
How Competitive Markets Function | |
Endangered and Extinct 715 | |
PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS | |