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Record Nr.

UNINA9910832978403321

Autore

Mankiw

Titolo

Microeconomics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : CENGAGE Learning, 2011

ISBN

1-283-28467-7

1-4080-6572-X

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (515 pages)

Disciplina

338.5

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- BRIEF CONTENTS -- CONTENTS -- PART 1 Introduction -- 1 Ten Principles of Economics -- 2 Thinking Like an Economist -- 3 Interdependence and the Gains from Trade -- PART 2 Supply and Demand I: How Markets Work -- 4 The Market Forces of Supply and Demand -- 5 Elasticity and Its Application -- 6 Supply, Demand and Government Policies -- PART 3 Supply and Demand II: Markets and Welfare -- 7 Consumers, Producers and the Efficiency of Markets -- 8 Application: The Costs of Taxation -- 9 Application: International Trade -- PART 4 The Economics of the Public Sector -- 10 Externalities -- 11 Public Goods and Common Resources -- 12 The Design of the Tax System -- PART 5 Firm Behaviour and the Organizationof Industry -- 13 The Costs of Production -- 14 Firms in Competitive Markets -- 15 Monopoly -- 16 Monopolistic Competition -- 17 Oligopoly -- PART 6 The Economics of Labour Markets -- 18 The Markets for the Factors of Production -- 19 Earnings and Discrimination -- 20 Income Inequality and Poverty -- PART 7 Topics for Further Study -- 21 The Theory of Consumer Choice -- 22 Frontiers of Microeconomics -- Glossary -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Sourced from the second edition of Economics by N. Gregory Mankiw (Harvard University) and Mark P. Taylor (Warwick University) and combining clarity, authority and real-world relevance, Microeconomics provides carefully tailored content ideal for use on  introductory microeconomics courses.