Modern Principles of Microeconomics - Tyler Cowen , Alex Tabarrok

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Résumé :
Preface CHAPTER 1 The Big Ideas CHAPTER 2 The Power of Trade and Comparative Advantage PART 1: Supply and Demand CHAPTER 3 Supply and Demand CHAPTER 4 Equilibrium CHAPTER 5 Elasticity and Its Applications CHAPTER 6 Taxes and Subsidies PART 2: The Price System CHAPTER 7 The Price System: Signals, Speculation, and Prediction CHAPTER 8 Price Ceilings and Floors CHAPTER 9 International Trade CHAPTER 10 Externalities: When the Price Is Not Right PART 3: Firms and Factor Markets CHAPTER 11 Costs and Profit Maximization Under Competition CHAPTER 12 Competition and the Invisible Hand CHAPTER 13 Monopoly CHAPTER 14 Price Discrimination and Pricing Strategy CHAPTER 15 Oligopoly and Game Theory CHAPTER 16 Networks, Platforms, and the Economics of Free Goods CHAPTER 17 Monopolistic Competition and Advertising CHAPTER 18 Labor Markets PART 4: Government CHAPTER 19 Public Goods and the Tragedy of the Commons CHAPTER 20 Political Economy and Public Choice CHAPTER 21 Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy PART 5: Decision Making for Businesses,Investors, and Consumers CHAPTER 22 Managing Incentives CHAPTER 23 Stock Markets and Personal Finance CHAPTER 24 Asymmetric Information: Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection CHAPTER 25 Consumer Choice APPENDIX A Reading Graphs and Making Graphs APPENDIX B Solutions to Check Yourself Questions B-1 Glossary G-1 References R-1 Index I-1...

Biographie:
Tyler Cowen is Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Director of the Mercatus Center. He is published widely in economics journals, including the American Economic Review and Journal of Political Economy. With Alex Tabarrok he co-writes the Marginal Revolution blog, often ranked as the #1 economics blog. He is also the author of numerous books on economics and he writes regularly for the popular press on economics, including for Bloomberg Opinion, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, and The Wilson Quarterly. Alex Tabarrok is Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Tabarrok is co-author with Tyler Cowen of the popular economics blog, Marginal Revolution. His research looks at bounty hunters, judicial incentives and elections, crime control, patent reform, methods to increase the supply of human organs for transplant, and the regulation of pharmaceuticals. He is the editor of numerous books, his papers have appeared in numerous academic journals and his popular articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other magazines and newspapers....

Sommaire:
Tyler Cowen is Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Director of the Mercatus Center. He is published widely in economics journals, including the American Economic Review and Journal of Political Economy. With Alex Tabarrok he co-writes the Marginal Revolution blog, often ranked as the #1 economics blog. He is also the author of numerous books on economics and he writes regularly for the popular press on economics, including for Bloomberg Opinion, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, and The Wilson Quarterly. Alex Tabarrok is Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Tabarrok is co-author with Tyler Cowen of the popular economics blog, Marginal Revolution. His research looks at bounty hunters, judicial incentives and elections, crime control, patent reform, methods to increase the supply of human organs for transplant, and the regulation of pharmaceuticals. He is the editor of numerous books, his papers have appeared in numerous academic journals and his popular articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other magazines and newspapers....