Price theory : an intermediate text / David D. Friedman.
Publisher: Cincinnati : South-Western Pub. Co., c1986Description: xv, 560 pages : illustration ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0538080507 [hardback]
- 338.52 F88 1986
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents: Section 1 Economics for pleasure and profit -- 1 What is economics? -- 2 How economists think -- Section II Price = Value = Cost: Competitive equilibrium in a simple economy -- 3 The consumer: choice and indifference curves -- 4 The consumer: marginal value, marginal utility -- 5 Production -- 6 Simple trade -- 7 Markets - putting it all together -- 8 The big picture -- Section III Complications, or onward to reality -- 9 The firm -- 10 Small-numbers problems: monopoly and all that -- 11 Time -- 12 And chance -- 13 The distribution of income and the factors of production -- Section IV Judging outcomes -- 14 Economic efficiency -- 15 What is efficient? -- 16 Market interference -- 17 Market failures -- Section V Applications - conventional and UN -- 18 The political marketplace -- 19 The economics of law and law breaking -- 20 The economics of love and marriage -- 21 The economics of heating -- 22 Inflation and unemployment -- Section VI Why you should buy this book -- 23 Final words -- Index.
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