Economics today : the micro view / / Roger LeRoy Miller

• Autore: Miller Roger LeRoy
• Pubblicazione: Harlow, Essex : , : Pearson, , [2014]; ©2014
• Edizione: Seventeenth, Pearson new international edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (471 pages) : color illustrations, tables, graphs
• Disciplina: 338.5
• Soggetto topico: Microeconomics
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Table of Contents -- 1. The Nature of Economics -- 2. Scarcity and the World of Trade-Offs -- 3. Demand and Supply -- 4. Extensions of Demand and Supply Analysis -- 5. Public Spending and Public Choice -- 6. Funding the Public Sector -- 7. Demand and Supply Elasticity -- 8. Consumer Choice -- 9. The Firm: Cost and Output Determination -- 10. Perfect Competition -- 11. Monopoly -- 12. Monopolistic Competition -- 13. Oligopoly and Strategic Behavior -- 14. Regulation and Antitrust Policy in a Globalized Economy -- 15. The Labor Market: Demand, Supply, and Outsourcing -- 16. Income, Poverty, and Health Care -- 17. Environmental Economics -- 18. Comparative Advantage and the Open Economy -- Index.
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• Titolo autorizzato: Economics today
• ISBN: 1-292-05445-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910153064203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Always learning.; Pearson custom library.