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Microeconomics

Autor Paul Krugman, Mr Robin Wells
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 iun 2015
When it comes drawing on economic principles to explain current realities, there is no one readers trust more than Paul Krugman and Robin Wells. With more and more instructors in all types of schools using Krugman's signature storytelling style to help them introduce the fundamental principles of economics to all kinds of students.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781464143878
ISBN-10: 1464143870
Pagini: 704
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 217 x 277 x 29 mm
Greutate: 1.26 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: W H FREEMAN & CO LTD
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

PART I: WHAT IS ECONOMICS
Intro The Ordinary Business of Life
1. First Principles
2. Economic Models: Trade-offs and Trade 25
3. Appendix Graphs in Economics
PART II: SUPPLY AND DEMAND
4. Consumer and Producer Surplus
5. Price Controls and Quotas: Meddling with Markets
6. Elasticity
PART III: INDIVIDUALS AND MARKETS 
7. Taxes
8. International Trade
PART IV: ECONOMICS AND DECISION MAKING 
9. Decision Making by Individuals & Firms
9.1. Appendix Toward a Fuller Understanding of Present Value*
PART V: THE CONSUMER  
10 The Rational Consumer
10.1 Appendix Consumer Preferences and Consumer Choice
PART VI: THE PRODUCTION DECISION 
11. Behind the Supply Curve: Inputs and Costs
12. Perfect Competition and the Supply Curve
PART VII: MARKET STRUCTURE AND THE SUPPLY CURVE
13. Monopoly
14. Oligopoly
15. Monopolistic Competition and Product Differentiation
PART VIII: MICROECONOMICS AND PUBLIC POLICY
16. Externalities
17. Public Goods & Common Resources
18. The Economics of the Welfare
PART IX: FACTOR MARKETS & RISK
19. Factor Markets and the Distribution of Income
19.1. Appendix Indifference Curve Analysis of Labor Supply
20. Uncertainty, Risk, and Private Information
Solutions to "Check Your Understanding" Questions
Glossary
Index

Notă biografică

Paul Krugman Recipient of the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, is Professor of Economics at Princeton University, USA, where he regularly teaches the Principles course. He received his BA from Yale and his PhD from MIT. Prior to his current position, he taught at Yale, Stanford, and MIT. He also spent a year on staff of the Council of Economics Advisors in 1982-1983. His research is mainly in the area of international trade, where he is one of the founders of the 'new trade theory,' which focuses on increasing returns and imperfect competition. He also works in international finance, with a concentration in currency crises. In 1991, Krugman received the American Economic Association's John Bates Clark medal. In addition to his teaching and academic research, Krugman writes extensively for nontechnical audiences and he is a regular op-ed columnist for the New York Times. 

Robin Wells was a lecturer and researcher in economics at Princeton University, USA, where she taught undergraduate courses. She received her BA from the University of Chicago and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley; she then did her postdoctoral work at MIT. She has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Southampton, UK, Stanford and MIT. Her teaching and research focus is on the theory of organizations and incentives.

Caracteristici

Exhaustively updated examples, particularly in the areas of technology (iPhones, shopping apps, innovations in men's razors, industrial robots)

Updated chapters on Externalities and on Factor Markets to reflect current data and post recession realities. The Externalities chapter also features refined coverage of marginal social cost/benefit and cap and trade

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