Price Theory and Applications by Steven Landsburg
Written in the same style as Professor Landsburg's popular trade book, The Armchair Economist, this book gives students an understanding of economic theory as well as the skills to apply it to the world around them.
1Supply, Demand, and Equilibrium. 2. Prices, Costs, and the Gains from Trade. 3. The Behavior of Consumers. Appendix: Cardinal Utility. 4. Consumers in the Marketplace. 5. The Behavior of Firms. 6. Production and Costs. 7. Competition. 8. Welfare Economics and the Gains from Trade. Appendix: Normative Criteria. 9. Knowledge and Information. 10. Monopoly. 11. Market Power, Collusion, and Oligopoly. 12. The Theory of Games. 13. External Costs and Benefits. 14. Common Property and Public Goods. 15. The Demand for Factors of Production. 16. The Market for Labor. 17. Allocating Goods over Time. 18. Risk and Uncertainty. 19. What Is Economics? Appendix A: Calculus Supplement. Appendix B: Answers to Exercises. Appendix C: Answers to Problem Sets.
Steven E. Landsburg teaches economics at the University of Rochester. He is the author of six books, including The Armchair Economist (Free Press/Macmillan 1993). His articles have appeared in the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Economic Theory, and many other mathematics, economics and philosophy journals. He writes the monthly "Everyday Economics" column in Slate magazine, and has written for Forbes, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. He appeared as a commentator on the PBS/Turner Broadcasting series "Damn Right," and has made over 200 radio and television appearances. He has served on the board of directors of Hutchinson Technology, the world's largest maker of suspension assemblies for hard disk drives. For more information about Professor Landsburg visit http://www.landsburg.com/about2.html.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781285423524 |
| ISBN 10 | 1285423526 |
| Title | Price Theory and Applications |
| Author | Steven Landsburg |
| Series | Upper Level Economics Titles Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cengage Learning, Inc |
| Year published | 2013-08-21 |
| Number of pages | 720 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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