Microeconomic theory : basic principles and extensions / Walter Nicholson.

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Main Author: Nicholson, Walter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Dryden Press, ©1985.
Edition:3rd ed.
Series:Dryden Press series in economics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Economic models
  • The mathematics of maximization
  • Second-order conditions
  • Choice and demand
  • Utility maximization
  • Comparative statics analyses of individual demand
  • Foundations of utility analysis
  • Market demand
  • Individual behavior under uncertainty
  • The state-preference approach to uncertainty
  • Production and the firm
  • Production functions
  • Technical progress
  • Costs
  • Firms' goals: profit maximization and alternatives
  • Pricing in the goods market
  • Perfectly competitive pricing in the short run
  • Short-run supply-demand dynamics
  • Perfectly competitive pricing in the long run
  • Pricing in monopoly markets
  • Pricing in imperfectly competitive markets
  • Pricing in the factor market
  • Pricing in perfectly competitive factor markets
  • Pricing in imperfectly competitive factor markets
  • Labor supply
  • Capital
  • The mathematics of compound interest
  • Control theory and optimal resource allocation over time
  • General equilibrium and welfare
  • Economic efficiency
  • The efficiency of perfect competition
  • Linear programming, pricing of inputs, and duality
  • The existence of general equilibrium prices
  • Externalities and public goods
  • Social choice theory.