Readings in Microeconomics

2. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-877630-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

The widely-acclaimed journal Oxford Review of Economic Policy publishes papers written in a non-technical style by leading policy experts. This second edition of Readings in Microeconomics presents a revised and updated selection of the most significant OREP papers in microeconomics, chosen by the Managing Editor Dr Tim Jenkinson of Keble College, Oxford. Topics covered include Industrial Organization, Research and Development, Competition and Industrial Policy, Regulation, Externalities and the Environment, International Trade, the Labour Market, and Education and Training.

* leading policy experts discuss topical issues

* high standards of analysis combined with non-technical writing

* articles selected to reflect current student course requirements

The volume's extensive coverage makes the book an ideal text for second- and third-year students of microeconomics. A companion volume in Macroeconomics is also available.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jenkinson, Tim

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Mikroökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: Industrial Organization

- 1: John Vickers: Strategic Competition Among the Few: Some Recent Developments in the Economics of Industry

- 2: Ray Rees: Tacit Collusion

- 3: Michael Waterson: Vertical Integration and Vertical Restraints

- Part II: Research and Development

- 4: Paul Stoneman and John Vickers: The Economics of Technology Policy

- 5: Partha Dasgupta: The Welfare Economics of Knowledge Production

- Part III: Competition and Regulatory Policy

- 6: Donald Hay: Competition Policy

- 7: Dieter Helm and Tim Jenkinson: Introducing Competition into Regulated Industries

- Part IV: Externalities and the Environmnent

- 8: Scott Burnett: The Problem of Global Environmental Protection

- 9: David Newbery: Pricing and Congestion: Economic Principles Relevant to Pricing Roads

- 10: Dieter Helm and David Pearce: Economic Policy Towards the Environment

- Part V: International Trade

- 11: Henryk Kierzkowski: Recent Advances in International Trade Theory: A Selective Survey

- 12: Christopher Bliss: The New Trade Theory and Economic Policy

- 13: Paul Krugman: What's New about the New Economic Geography

- Part VI: Education and Training

- 14: David Finegold and David Soskice: The Failure of Training in Britain: Analysis and Prescription

- 15: Martin Cave and Martin Weale: Higher Education: Expansion and Reform

Über Autor(innen)

Tim Jenkinson is Managing Editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy and is Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Keble College, Oxford University.