The Fatal Equilibrium by Marshall Jevons

The Fatal Equilibrium by Marshall Jevons

At Harvard, tenure decisions are a matter of life -- or death.

For Dennis Gossen, the economics department whiz kid currently being considered for tenure, it's definitely death. When he's turned down by the high-and-mighty Promotion and Tenure Committee, Gossen commits suicide.

A Question of Cost Accounting...

Or does he? It's hard to imagine why a young man with a brilliant scholarly future -- at Harvard or not -- would come up with an equation in which the opportunity cost of killing himself (a high price, considering his potential earnings) would be outweighed by the emotional cost of failing to receive tenure.

... Or Utility?

Then two members of the P and T Committee are murdered, and it becomes clear to Professor Henry Spearman of the Economics Department that the killer must be on the committee. But which of his illustrious colleagues would have significantly increased his -- or her -- utility (i.e., happiness) by murdering a faculty member or two? Or three?

Marshall Jevons is a pseudonym for the duo of William Breit, a Trinity University professor of economics, and Kenneth G. Elzinga is an economics professor at the University of Virginia.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780345331588
ISBN 10	0345331583
Title	The Fatal Equilibrium
Author	Marshall Jevons
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1986-07-12
Number of pages	208
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.