Price Theory and Applications:

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ISBN: 9781285423524

ISBN-10: 1285423526

ISBN-13: 9781285423524

Edition: 2013

Authors: Steven Landsburg

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Written in the same humorous, reader-friendly style as Professor Landsburg's widely popular trade book, The Armchair Economist, the lively ninth edition of PRICE THEORY AND APPLICATIONS adopts an inductive, hands-on approach that enables students to learn economics by doing. And it requires no knowledge or use of calculus. Using a student-friendly, easy-to-understand format, the book thoroughly develops the standard concepts of intermediate price theory as well as timely, untraditional issues not found in many texts?such as the economics of information. Social welfare is also highlighted as a unifying concept throughout. The book's rigorous, meticulous development of economic theory is…

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List price: $318.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 704
Size: 9.00" wide x 12.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.454
Language: English




Supply, Demand, and Equilibrium



Prices, Costs, and the Gains from Trade



The Behavior of Consumers


Appendix: Cardinal Utility



Consumers in the Marketplace



The Behavior of Firms



Production and Costs



Competition



Welfare Economics and the Gains from Trade


Appendix: Normative Criteria



Knowledge and Information



Monopoly



Market Power, Collusion, and Oligopoly



The Theory of Games



External Costs and Benefits



Common Property and Public Goods



The Demand for Factors of Production



The Market for Labor



Allocating Goods over Time



Risk and Uncertainty



What Is Economics?



Calculus Supplement



Answers to Exercises



Answers to Problem Sets