Paul Krugman, Robin Wells

Microeconomics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With its signature storytelling style and coverage of current issues and events, Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and co-author, Robin Wells's best-seller is the most effective textbook available for explaining how economic concepts play out in our world. This new edition offers incisive new insight into market power and externalities in microeconomics, updated analysis of long-run growth, and extensive coverage of the economic impacts and policy responses to the coronavirus pandemic in macroeconomics

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Worth Publishers
• 6th edition
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 274mm x 216mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1456g
• ISBN-13: 9781319245283
• ISBN-10: 1319245285
• Artikelnr.: 68103875

Autorenporträt

Paul Krugman; Robin Wells

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 What is Economics?
Introduction: An Engine for Growth and Discovery
Chapter 1 First Principles
Chapter 2 Economic Models: Trade-offs and Trade
Appendix 2: Graphs in Economics
 
Part 2 Supply and Demand
Chapter 3 Supply and Demand
Chapter 4 Consumer and Producer Surplus
Chapter 5 Price Controls and Quotas: Meddling with Markets
Chapter 6 Elasticity
 
Part 3 Individuals and Markets
Chapter 7 Taxes
Chapter 8 International Trade
 
Part 4 Economics and Decision Making
Chapter 9 Decision Making by Individuals and Firms
Appendix 9: Toward a Fuller Understanding of Present Value
 
Part 5 Microeconomics and Public Policy
Chapter 10 Externalities
Chapter 11 Public Goods and Common Resources
Chapter 12 The Economics of the Welfare State
 
Part 6 The Consumer
Chapter 13 The Rational Consumer
Appendix 13: Consumer Preferences and Consumer Choice
 
Part 7 The Production Decision
Chapter 14 Behind the Supply Curve: Inputs and Costs
Chapter 15 Perfect Competition and the Supply Curve
 
Part 8 Market Structure: Beyond Perfect Competition
Chapter 16 Monopoly
Chapter 17 Oligopoly
Chapter 18 Monopolistic Competition and Product Differentiation
 
Part 9 Factor Markets and Risk
Chapter 19 Factor Markets and the Distribution of Income
Appendix 19: Indifference Curve Analysis of Labor Supply
Chapter 20 Uncertainty, Risk, and Private Information