Modern Principles: Microeconomics de Tyler Cowen

Modern Principles: Microeconomics

Tyler Cowen

Alex Tabarrock

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 ian 2012

In a world full of economics blogs, Cowen and Tabarrok's Marginal Revolution (http://marginalrevolution.com/) is one of the Web's most popular and respected. The same qualities that make the blog so distinctive are also behind the success of Modern Principles of Economics - engaging authors, unbiased presentations ideas, and a clear writing style.

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PART I: SUPPLY AND DEMAND
The Big Ideas
The Power of Trade and Comparative Advantage
Supply and Demand
Equilibrium: How Supply and Demand Determine Prices
Elasticity and its Applications
Appendix: Other Types of Elasticities
Appendix: Elasticities with Excel
Taxes and Subsidies
PART II: THE PRICE SYSTEM
The Price System: Signals, Speculation and Prediction
Price Ceilings and Price Floors
International Trade
Externalities: When Prices Send the Wrong Signals
PART III: FIRMS AND FACTOR MARKETS
Costs and Profit Maximization Under Competition
Appendix: Using Excel to Graph Cost Curves
Competition and the Invisible Hand
Monopoly
Price Discrimination
Appendix: Solving Price Discrimination Problems with Excel
Cartels, Oligopolies, and Monopolistic Competition
The Economics of Network Goods: Competing for Monopoly
Labor Markets
PART IV: GOVERNMENT
Public Goods and the Tragedy of the Commons
Appendix: The Tragedy of the Commons: How Fast?
Political Economy and Public Choice
Economics, Ethics and Public Policy
PART V: DECISION MAKING FOR BUSINESSES, INVESTORS, AND CONSUMERS
Managing Incentives
Stock Markets and Personal Finance
Consumer Choice
Back-of-Book Appendices
A: Reading Graphs in Economics
B: Answers to Check Yourself

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TYLER COWEN Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University, USA, and Director of the Mercatus Center and the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy. He is published widely in economics journals, including the American Economic Review and Journal of Political Economy. With Alex Tabarrok he co-writes the Marginal Revolution blog, often ranked as the #1 economics blog. He is also the author of Discover Your Inner Economist (Dutton, 2007) and numerous other books on economics. He writes regularly for the popular press on economics, including for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, and The Wilson Quarterly.
ALEX TABARROK Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, USA, and director of research for The Independent Institute. Tabarrok is co-author with Tyler Cowen of the popular economics blog, Marginal Revolution. His recent research looks at bounty hunters, judicial incentives and elections, crime control, patent reform, methods to increase the supply of human organs for transplant, and the regulation of pharmaceuticals. He is the editor of the books, Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science; The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society; and Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and The Control of Crime. His papers have appeared in the Journal of Law and Economics, Public Choice, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, The American Law and Economics Review, Kyklos and many other journals. His popular articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other magazines and newspapers.

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