L'autore:
Robert H. Frank received his M.A. in statistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971, and his Ph.D. in economics in 1972, also from U.C. Berkeley. He is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1972 and where he currently holds a joint appointment in the department of economics and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. He has published on a variety of subjects, including price and wage discrimination, public utility pricing, the measurement of unemployment spell lengths, and the distributional consequences of direct foreign investment. For the past several years, his research has focused on rivalry and cooperation in economic and social behaviour.
Contenuti:
Part I Introduction
Ch 1 Thinking Like an Economist
Ch 2 Comparative Advantage
Ch 3 Supply and Demand
Part II Competition and the Invisible Hand
Ch 4 Elasticity
Ch 5 Demand
Ch 6 Perfectly Competitive Supply
Ch 7 Efficiency and Exchange
Ch 8 The Invisible Hand in Action
Part III Market Imperfections
Ch 9 Monopoly, Oligopoly, and Monopolistic Competition
Ch 10 Games and Strategic Behavior
Ch 11 Externalities and Property Rights
Ch 12 The Economics of Information
Part IV Economics of Public Policy
Ch 13 Labor Markets, Poverty, and Income Distribution
Ch 14 The Environment, Health, and Safety
Ch 15 Public Goods and Tax Policy
Glossary
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