Microeconomics : principles, problems, and policies / Campbell R. McConnell, University of Nebraska, Stanley L. Brue, Pacific Lutheran University, Sean M. Flynn, Scripps College

Author: McConnell, Campbell R.
Published: Dubuque : McGraw-Hill Education, [2018]
Physical Description: xxxi, 570,17, 24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Additional Creators: Brue, Stanley L., 1945- and Flynn, Sean Masaki

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Contents

Preface -- Introduction to economics and the economy -- Limits, alternatives, and choices -- The market system and the circular flow -- Price, quantity, and efficiency -- Demand, supply, and market equilibrium -- Market failures: public goods and externalities -- Government's role and government failure -- Consumer behavior -- Elasticity -- Utility maximization -- Behavioral economics -- Microeconomics of product markets -- Businesses and the costs of production -- Pure competition in the short run -- Pure competition in the long run -- Pure monopoly -- Monopolistic competition and oligopoly -- Microeconomics of resource markets and government -- The demand for resources -- Wage determination -- Rent, interest, and profit -- Natural resource and energy economics -- Public finance: expenditures and taxes -- Microeconomic issues and policies -- Antitrust policy and regulation -- Agriculture: economics and policy -- Income inequality, poverty, and discrimination -- Health care -- Immigration -- International economics -- International trade -- The balance of payments, exchange rates, and trade deficits -- Glossary.

Subject(s)

Microeconomics

ISBN

9781259915727 (alk. paper)
1259915727 (alk. paper)

Note

Revised edition of Microeconomics, [2015].

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