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Price Theory and Applications
Steven Landsburg
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Description for Price Theory and Applications
Hardback. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: KCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 260 x 205 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1454.
Written in the same humorous, reader-friendly style as Professor Landsburg's widely popular trade book, The Armchair Economist, the lively ninth edition of PRICE THEORY AND APPLICATIONS adopts an inductive, hands-on approach that enables students to learn economics by doing. And it requires no knowledge or use of calculus. Using a student-friendly, easy-to-understand format, the book thoroughly develops the standard concepts of intermediate price theory as well as timely, untraditional issues not found in many texts¿such as the economics of information. Social welfare is also highlighted as a unifying concept throughout. The book's rigorous, meticulous development of economic theory is supported ... Read more
Written in the same humorous, reader-friendly style as Professor Landsburg's widely popular trade book, The Armchair Economist, the lively ninth edition of PRICE THEORY AND APPLICATIONS adopts an inductive, hands-on approach that enables students to learn economics by doing. And it requires no knowledge or use of calculus. Using a student-friendly, easy-to-understand format, the book thoroughly develops the standard concepts of intermediate price theory as well as timely, untraditional issues not found in many texts¿such as the economics of information. Social welfare is also highlighted as a unifying concept throughout. The book's rigorous, meticulous development of economic theory is supported ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cengage Learning, Inc Australia
Number of pages
720
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
1454g
Number of Pages
720
Place of Publication
Florence, United States
ISBN
9781285423524
SKU
V9781285423524
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Ref
99-10
About Steven Landsburg
Steven E. Landsburg teaches economics at the University of Rochester. He is the author of six books, including The Armchair Economist (Free Press/Macmillan 1993). His articles have appeared in the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Economic Theory, and many other mathematics, economics and philosophy journals. He writes the monthly Everyday Economics" column in Slate magazine, and has written ... Read more
Reviews for Price Theory and Applications
1. Supply, Demand, and Equilibrium. 2. Prices, Costs, and the Gains from Trade. 3. The Behavior of Consumers. Appendix: Cardinal Utility. 4. Consumers in the Marketplace. 5. The Behavior of Firms. 6. Production and Costs. 7. Competition. 8. Welfare Economics and the Gains from Trade. Appendix: Normative Criteria. 9. Knowledge and Information. 10. Monopoly. 11. Market Power, Collusion, and Oligopoly. ... Read more