Price theory and applications /
Hirshleifer, Jack.
Price theory and applications / Jack Hirshleifer, Amihai Glazer, David Hirshleifer. - Seventh edition - xvi, 614 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
1. The nature and scope of economics; 2. Working tools; 3. Utility and preference; 4. Consumption and demand; 5. Applications and extensions of demand theory; 6. The business firm; 7. Equilibrium in the product market - competitive industry; 8. Monopolies, cartels and networks; 9. Product quality and product variety; 10. Competition among the few: oligopoly and strategic behavior; 11. Dealing with uncertainty - the economics of risk and information; 12. The demand for factor services; 13. Resource supply and factor-market equilibrium; 14. Exchange, transaction costs and money; 15. The economics of time; 16. Welfare economics: the market and the state; 17. Government, politics and conflict.
This new seventh edition of the book offers extensive discussion of information, uncertainty, and game theory. It contains over a hundred examples illustrating the applicability of economic analysis not only to mainline economic topics but also issues in politics, history, biology, the family, and many other areas.
9780521818643 (hardback) 0521818648 (hardback) 9780521523424 (pbk.) 0521523427 (pbk.)
2005011729
Prices.
HB221 / .H62 2005
338.5 / H.J.P
Price theory and applications / Jack Hirshleifer, Amihai Glazer, David Hirshleifer. - Seventh edition - xvi, 614 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
1. The nature and scope of economics; 2. Working tools; 3. Utility and preference; 4. Consumption and demand; 5. Applications and extensions of demand theory; 6. The business firm; 7. Equilibrium in the product market - competitive industry; 8. Monopolies, cartels and networks; 9. Product quality and product variety; 10. Competition among the few: oligopoly and strategic behavior; 11. Dealing with uncertainty - the economics of risk and information; 12. The demand for factor services; 13. Resource supply and factor-market equilibrium; 14. Exchange, transaction costs and money; 15. The economics of time; 16. Welfare economics: the market and the state; 17. Government, politics and conflict.
This new seventh edition of the book offers extensive discussion of information, uncertainty, and game theory. It contains over a hundred examples illustrating the applicability of economic analysis not only to mainline economic topics but also issues in politics, history, biology, the family, and many other areas.
9780521818643 (hardback) 0521818648 (hardback) 9780521523424 (pbk.) 0521523427 (pbk.)
2005011729
Prices.
HB221 / .H62 2005
338.5 / H.J.P