Microeconomics

This highly original book develops a systematic zero-net-profit comparative statics theory of the firm that challenges many widely held views in microeconomics. It builds a bridge between the marginalist long-run theory of the firm and Sraffian theory to...

This is a new edition - with a substantial new introduction - of a book which has had a significant impact on economics, philosophy and political science. Robert Sugden shows how conventions of property, mutual aid, and voluntary supply of public goods...

This book provides an introduction to the relationship between economics and ethics, explaining why ethics enters economics, how ethics affects individual economic behaviour and the interactions of individuals, and how ethics is important in evaluating...

Economics has paid little attention to the psychology of economic behaviour, leading to somewhat simplistic assumptions about human nature. The psychological aspects have typically been reduced to standard utility theory, based on a narrow conception of...

Reviews the economics literature of market-based environmental regulations and design issues for environmental taxes and cap-and-trade systems. It begins by reviewing the economics literature on the theory of market-based environmental regulations. It...

This book sheds new light on long-established concepts of microeconomic production theory and combines general theoretical analysis with references to management tools. It deals with concepts of microeconomic production theory, using the fund-flow model...

This book provides an introduction to the relationship between economics and ethics, explaining why ethics enters economics, how ethics affects individual economic behaviour and the interactions of individuals, and how ethics is important in evaluating...

This book gives the historical development, explanations of technical specifications, and a basic understanding of how to use different equilibrium models in an applied framework. It contains an accessible analytical survey of economic equilibrium...

Essays on Microeconomics and Industrial Organisation aim to serve as a source and work of reference and consultation for the field of Microeconomics in general and of Industrial Organisation in particular. Traditionally, Microeconomics is essentially...

Congress' Own Think Tank recaps the OTA experience?it's creation, operation, and circumstances of its closure? and that of organizations attempting to fill the gap since OTA's closure as well as a number of new forces shaping the current context for...

Regulations to promote health and safety may be costly relative to the expected health and safety benefits, and may actually have negative effects on health and safety. These negative effects, or costs, may be due to reduced private spending on health...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349032778Author Francis A. LeesFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 247g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464804601Author Mulise JaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications

This book aims to develop an institutional approach to general economic equi- librium. Thus far, institutional economics has essentially been confined to purely verbal discourse. Here I argue the case that general equilibrium theory forms a well rounded...

Economists warn that policies to level the economic playing field come with a hefty price tag. But this so-called 'equality-efficiency trade-off' has proven difficult to document. The data suggest, instead, that the extraordinary levels of economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349075225Author Ronald Philip DoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 306g

The format of this monograph is three essays, which we arrived at after spending a year writing over one hundred pages of what we even tually realized was a tedious reworking of old material. So we started over determined to write something new. At first...

This scholarly yet accessible book provides an introduction to the main topics in production economics. The book successfully integrates two historically distinct perspectives on modeling technology: from microeconomics and engineering.Book...

Classical microeconomics is intended to explain how a price system is able to coordinate the economic agents. But even if it can be extended to incomplete information and externalities, it remains grounded on very heroic assumptions. Agents are endowed...

How do we understand illicit violence? Can we prevent it? Building on behavioral science and economics, this book begins with the idea that humans are more predictable than we like to believe, and this ability to model human behavior applies equally well...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888407385Author Steven A GreenlawFormat HardbackImprint Samurai Media LimitedPublisher Samurai Media LimitedWeight(grams) 1565g

This volume deals with both a new theoretical framework and the capability of new economics to tackle a number of economic problems. It offers detailed analysis and informed comment on the type of new economics emerging in the aftermath of the financial...

This book looks at a number of topics in economic education, presenting multiple perspectives from those in the field to anyone interested in teaching economics. Using anecdotes, classroom experiments and surveys, the contributing authors show that, with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789221058274Author Luisella Goldschmidt-ClermontFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint International Labour OfficePublisher International Labour...

The Microeconomics of Insurance presents the core elements of the microeconomic analysis of insurance markets. The aim of this analysis is to understand how insurance markets work, their fundamental economic functions, and how efficiently insurance...

A Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) is the unconditional government-ensured guarantee that all citizens will have enough income to meet their basic needs without a work requirement. Significant questions include: Why should we adopt a BIG? Can the U.S. afford...

Along with the renewed interest in the Austrian school of economics over the last two decades, important advances have been made in applying its princples to concrete issues that typically face market economics. However, very little has been done in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917636858Author Thomas MiezejeskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Stallion Book PublishersPublisher Stallion Book PublishersWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349063512Author Lars CalmforsFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 429g

What constitutes a good life? For most people, well-being involves more than a high income or material prosperity alone. Many non-material aspects, such as health, family life, living environment, job quality and the meaningful use of time are at least...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656639015Author Mary JokorvicFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 54g

Industrial Price, Quantity, and Productivity Indices: The Micro-Economic Theory and an Application gives a comprehensive account of the micro-economic foundations of industrial price, quantity, and productivity indices. The various results available from...

Microeconomic Theory is a modern treatment of the neoclassical paradigm which is essential for understanding microeconomics. The author has carefully applied this theory in a non--mathematical and intuitive way. The special features include: aeo emphasis...

Since Aristotle, many different theories of distributive justice have been proposed, by philosophers as well as social scientists. The typical approach within social choice theory is to assess these theories in an axiomatic way - most of the time the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680921328Author Steven A GreenlawFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint 12th Media ServicesPublisher 12th Media ServicesWeight(grams) 1288g

Intermediate Microeconomics offers a clear and concise treatment of microeconomic principles in a useful pedagogic framework. The mathematical level is approachable and uses basic algebra with extensions to calculus where it helps the analysis. The book...

Recognising that the economy is a complex system with boundedly rational interacting agents, the book presents a theory of behavioral rationality and heterogeneous expectations in complex economic systems and confronts the nonlinear dynamic models with...

Some of the fundamental tenets of conventional economic wisdom, which have had a profound impact on public policy, are challenged in this book. These precepts include the affirmation that low wages are more beneficial that high wages to the process of...

Have you ever felt frustrated with Microeconomics texts? If so, this book is your answer. Don't Worry About Micro is not simply an addition to the long list of first year texts - it constitutes a new type of text altogether. It combines the academic...

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