Price theory and applications : decisions, markets, and information. Jack Hirshleifer, Amihai Glazer, David Hirshleifer.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.Edition: 7th ed. / Jack Hirshleifer, Amihai Glazer, David HirshleiferDescription: illISBN:- 9780521523424 (pbk.) :
- 9780521818643 (hbk.) :
- 9780521818643 (hardback)
- 0521523427 (pbk.)
- 0521818648 (hardback)
- 9780521523424 (pbk.)
- 338.5 HIR
- HB221
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Previous ed.: Upper Saddle River, N.J.; London: Prentice-Hall International, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Part one.Introduction -- 1.The nature and scope of economics -- 2.Working tools -- Part two. Preference, consumption, and demand -- 4.Consumption and demand -- 5.Applications -- Part three. The firm and the industry -- 7.Equilibrium in the products market - competitive industry -- 8.Monopolies, cartels, and networks -- 9.Product quality and product variety -- 10.Competition among the few: oligopoly and strategic behavior -- 11.Dealing with uncertainty - the economics of risk and information -- Part four. Factor markets and income distribution -- 12.The demand for factor services -- 13.Resource supply and factor-market equlibrium -- 14.Exchange, transaction costs and money -- Part six. Economics and time -- Part seven. Political economy. 16.Welfare economics: The market and the state -- 17.Government, politics, and conflict
This seventh edition offers extensive discussion of information, uncertainty, and game theory. It also contains over a hundred examples of applicability of economic analysis in a wide range of areas such as politics, history, biology, the family and many others.