Microeconomics and Behaviour: South African edition: Southern African Edition - Brossura

De Villiers, A P (Pierre); Frank, Robert H.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0077167929 ISBN 13: 9780077167929

Casa editrice: McGraw Hill / Europe, Middle East & Africa, 2014

Riassunto

Fully revised and updated, the second Southern African edition of Microeconomics and Behaviour explores the relationship between economic analysis and human behaviour. With an engaging and accessible narrative, key areas of intermediate microeconomics are explored using relevant Southern African examples and analytical problems to encourage students to think like economists.

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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 1Introduction
1.Thinking like an economist
2.Supply and demand

PART 2The Theory of Consumer Behaviour
3.Rational consumer choice
4.Individual and market demand
5.The economics of information and choice under uncertainty
6.Cognitive limitations and consumer behaviour

PART 3The Theory of the Firm and Market Structure
7.Production
8.Costs
9.Perfect competition
10.Monopoly
11.Imperfect competition: a game-theoretic approach

PART 4Factor Markets
12.Labour
13.Capital and exhaustible resources

PART 5Externalities, Public Goods and Welfare
14.Externalities, property rights and the Coase theorem
15.Government
16.General equilibrium and market efficiency

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw Hill / Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0077167929
• ISBN 13: 9780077167929
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 704